The site of this project is situated at the edge of a large new city being constructed in Doha, named the Education City. Envisioned as a whole new campus for the State of Qatar, this will be yet another version of knowledge economy spaces. The empty plots here will be filled by satellite campuses from the States; Microsoft University, Intel, Rand Corporation and Cornell University. The plot that we were asked to look at will provide the commercial and amenities facilities to sustain the projected local population of students, researches and administrative staffs. In short we were asked to design one of architecture’s most dreaded typology: the mega mall.