International architecture firm UNStudio has completed work on a collection of subway stations for a new driverless metro system in Doha, Dubai. 

The stations are designed according to an "Architectural Branding Manual" created by the firm that provides "an extensive set of design guidelines, architectural details and material outlines to assure the spatial quality and identity of the network," according to a project statement. 

Describing the project, UNStudio's Ben van Berkel explains,“We are going to move differently in the future. Mobility is changing fast, from the introduction of autonomous vehicles to urban cable cars and the Hyperloop." 

Van Berkel adds, "The mobility hubs of the future have to respond to and cater to these changes. In order to encourage the use of more sustainable forms of transport, these stations not only have to ensure smooth passenger flows, but they need to truly appeal to the public; to be places they want to visit and return to."

The stations are designed to evoke "the monolithic strength of old Qatari architecture," and, as a result, include many sweeping vaults that shape the cavernous interior spaces of the stations. The vaults, wrapped in tile-like tessellated surfaces, are meant to also evoke "a radiant effect of movement and fluidity," according to the architects. 

Organized according to a "modular" conceptual paradigm derived from triangular forms, the station designs are created to convey a sense of station-, line-, and system-specific visual and architectural branding, as well.