Tarabot
- Circular Pavilion for COP28
- Client: Art Jameel, Dubai, UAE
Tarabot is a pavilion that brings together cutting-edge sustainable materials designed and made in the UAE, weaving together the story of local materials throughout their full lifecycle. It creates synergies between the natural world and manmade environments.
Tarabot is a pavilion made of modular and nested cones crafted from locally sourced, sustainable materials including PSB boards made from date palm waste, mycelium, clay and upcycled fabric. It is a call for the revival of urban spaces, through a focus on the hyperlocal and the creation of circular ecological support systems.
Tarabot, which means interconnectedness in Arabic, is commissioned by Art Jameel and designed by the OtherDada with collaborations with UAE companies supplying local material that is upcycled from local waste, particularly palm waste which is abundantly available in the UAE. The concept of the pavilion incorporates construction and de-installation through a full lifecycle approach. After de-installation, the modular cones will be repurposed for domestic planting on land with the metal structure taking on new life as underwater habitat for coral and fish, linking life on land to life underwater.
MycoSphere, joined forces with local material innovators to supply the pavilion with the first UAE produced mycelium material using palm waste. At the end of its lifecycle, the mycelium panles will go back to Mother Earth as soil nourishment to further support the regeneration of nature.
The pavilion held climate related conversations during COP28, and continued to serve as a living lab and a hub for multidisciplinary practitioners working across culture and climate change.
Tarabot in the press
