Skip to content
EARTH LAYERS Send your finishes schedule
Home / Projects / Al Kaaban Resort
Rammed earth mosque at Al Kaaban Resort, Qatar, its layered conical minaret glowing from warm interior lighting at dusk above a low rammed earth boundary wall.
Our work — Qatar

Al Kaaban Resort

Guest buildings, a mosque and its minaret, and the boundary walls — all rammed in lifts on site. Earth compacted between forms until it became the building.

Al Kaaban Resort — the mosque at dusk. Photography: Conmarble

Location Qatar
Sector Hospitality
System In-situ rammed earth
Scope Guest buildings, mosque, boundary walls
Rammed earth mosque at Al Kaaban Resort with a layered conical minaret glowing from warm interior lighting at dusk.
The mosque — minaret rammed in lifts, like the walls. Photography: Conmarble
Completed rammed earth guest building at Al Kaaban Resort with layered strata walls at dusk and a bamboo pergola with draped shade cloth.
Guest building and bamboo pergola. Photography: Conmarble
Low-angle corner detail of rammed earth walls at Al Kaaban Resort under a deep blue sky, sandy beige tamped layers with ridged texture.
Corner detail — the tamped lifts read as strata. Photography: Conmarble
Two rammed earth buildings with stepped parapets at Al Kaaban Resort under dusk light, crews in hi-vis working on roofs and doorways beside fresh lawn.
Two guest buildings nearing completion. Photography: Conmarble
Aerial drone still over the rammed earth buildings and lawns at Al Kaaban Resort under construction, white event tent at left and a palm-lined boundary wall.
The site from the air. Photography: Conmarble

Materials used

Rammed Earth In-situ
Specify this look on your project

Materials on this project

Supplied and applied by our own artisans. The links go to the material itself — the finish, the range, and the technical data needed to specify the same surface.

Rammed earth

In-situ rammed earth — guest buildings, mosque and boundary walls, compacted in lifts on site