A. Qatar Foundation Student Housing Complex

Education City, Doha, Qatar

Completion Date: Spring 2012

The Qatar Foundation Student Housing Complex is a twelve building education center that is divided to accommodate gender specific learning and living accommodations for students within the Education City of Doha, Qatar. The complex consists of two six building, 350,000 square-foot complexes, each with two 150-bed residence halls and three 100-bed apartment buildings.

The complex covers 2,500 acres and is located on the outskirts of Doha and once completed will serve as branch campuses to universities such as Virginia Commonwealth, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Cornell, Texas A&M, and Northwestern. The Qatar Foundation Student Housing Complex is slated to be the first student housing project in the world to achieve a LEED Platinum Certification.

Flannery was called upon to supply over 110,000 linear feet of drywall trim to Doha, Qatar. This scale of shipment marks the largest single shipment order in Flannery’s 30 years of business. Four types of aluminum drywall trim were a part of the shipment, including drywall reveals and shadow molds (base molds).

Flannery’s Drywall Reveals (DWR 625-100) are found throughout the corridors of the complex buildings and dorm rooms. Instead of utilizing a traditional base molding, the designers chose to use Flannery’s Shadow Molds (DWSM 625-100 and DWSM 625-150) to create a recessed base to each wall.

Artist's rendering of the Qatar Foundation Student Housing Complex

An example of Flannery's Trims within the typical Student's Dormitory.

Artist's rendering of the interior of the Residential Community Center.