Two-storey wedding hall — Daraa

Two hundred and seventy-five square metres per floor, doubled by a second storey on the same footprint.

A wedding hall of two hundred and seventy-five square metres per floor, eleven metres wide and twenty-five metres long, built as steel frames with a concrete slab in a two-storey arrangement.

The governing requirement was a large area suited to wedding functions, and the available footprint could not deliver it horizontally. So the area was gained upward: a second storey doubles the usable floor area without expanding across the site or into the foundations.

The seven-metre eaves height is not an independent figure but a consequence of the two-storey decision: three and a half metres per floor, so seven is exactly what two storeys require beneath the roof — no surplus paid for in steel, and no shortfall that would compress the lower floor.

The roof is designed for a load of 400 kg/m². Fixing the design load during design rather than after construction is what determines member sections and foundations together; a figure like this belongs in the contract, because it cannot be added later to a structure that was not calculated for it. The envelope is composite panel across roof and walls, serving thermal and acoustic insulation in a building that works at night.