STG Gallery

A sales center at the corner of Dammam Road and the Khurais Road extension, its plan a triangle that meets the road with its hypotenuse, so the longest edge faces the fastest road. The building sits on a base raised one meter above the street, reached by a planted slope that turns arrival into a path rather than a threshold.

Inside a single glass envelope, three stone volumes hold the offices, meetings and services, touching neither the glass nor the roof. They are massed the way the mud buildings of Najd are massed: a broad base, a lighter top. At their center stands the maquette, and visitors circle it across an open floor without walls. One volume holds a short stair to a prayer mezzanine.

The roof is a separate layer carried by a single column at the center of the triangle, ringed by a skylight that lets daylight in. It dips at the column, rises toward the edges, and extends beyond the glass to shade the facades. Services sit in a separate zone on the rear street, and a circular events space lies within the landscape among arid planting.