The 5 Pillars of Bawadi

 — The traditional hotel diagram - wide at the bottom, thin at the top.

 — The value diagram is inversely proportioned as an inverted pyramid with maximum program on the top, and a reduced footprint.

 — The generic layout of a hotel and retail complex is a public podium with private towers.

 — Following the logic of the inverted pyramid of value and sustainability BIG propose to turn the American city upside down. A public canopy resting on a forest of private columns.

 — The canopy can contain all the public functions supporting the hotels - Lobby, restaurants, gardens, conferences, auditoria, banquet spaces and retail.

 — The key to building sustainably in the desert is to protect the building and the urban spaces around it from the desert sun.

 — The key to building sustainably in the desert is to protect the building and the urban spaces around it from the desert sun.

 — The key to building sustainably in the desert is to protect the building and the urban spaces around it from the desert sun.

 — BIG proposed to retract the facades back into the building's own shadow.

 — Then, excavate giant archways across the potential building volume.

 — ...To create shortcuts between the surrounding streets.

 — Boulevards and plazas.

 — and secondary roads.