Oxygen Park
Sculpted concrete terrain mimicking wind-eroded desert rock, hiding running tracks and cooled tunnels beneath a green public park.
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This guide to Oxygen Park in Doha reveals that its soft dunes and running tracks are not natural terrain but sculpted concrete, poured and buried to look like wind-carved rock. It follows architect Erik Behrens and his team at AECOM and Arup as they studied desert erosion patterns to design a park runnable even at midday heat. The park opened in 2019 and covers roughly thirteen hectares of looping paths and tunnel segments.
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