Abrahamic Family House on Saadiyat Island

The Abrahamic Family House Project involved a design-and-build contract for worship buildings at the Cultural District in Abu Dhabi.
 
The concept by Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates, London, was selected through an international design competition with the main intention of serving as a community for interreligious dialogue and exchange. The Abrahamic Family House consists of three religious spaces, a mosque, a synagogue and a church, which sit upon a secular podium level. Also included are an underground parking lot and technical service rooms, a welcome centre and an office of the Human Fraternity Council.
 
Each of the buildings was designed to express the purity and simplicity befitting the gravitas of each space, which, although similar in width, height and length and with the same monolithic concrete structures, reveal their uniqueness in their characteristic structural and façade design as well as in the interior and architectural fit-out.

Project data

• Built-up area: 20,000 m²
  
• Excavation: 12,000 m³
  
• Concrete and reinforced concrete works: 40,000 m³