The competition invites design-led proposals that strengthen Al Ain’s potential for resilient long-term tourism while adding a thoughtful new layer to the site’s cultural, spatial and environmental identity.

• Heritage-linked visitor, research or community infrastructure.
• Climate-responsive architectural pavilion, interpretive centre or learning space.
• Adaptive reuse or contemporary addition to existing built elements where appropriate.
• Public-realm and landscape intervention that improves shade, movement, comfort and interpretation.
• Archaeological interpretation route, viewing structure, threshold, gathering space or site narrative system.
• Small urban/landscape connector that clarifies arrival, orientation and visitor experience.

Large district-scale masterplans, purely strategic policy proposals and submissions that do not resolve the official site spatially are not suitable for this edition