NAME OF THE BUILDING-Al Bahar Towers , Abu Dhabi
TYPE OF FACADE-Responsive Facade
MATERIAL USED-Fiberglass and tinted glass
WORKING MECHANISM-The screen operates as a curtain wall, sitting two meters outside the buildings’ exterior on an independent frame. Each triangle is coated with fiberglass and programmed to respond to the movement of the sun as a way to reduce solar gain and glare. In the evening, all the screens will close.
At night they will all fold, so they will all close, so you’ll see more of the facade. As the sun rises in the morning in the east, the mashrabiya along the east of the building will all begin to close and as the sun moves round the building, then that whole vertical strip of mashrabiya will move with the sun.
[ For Abu Dhabi’s newest pair of towers, Aedas architects have designed a responsive facade which takes cultural cues from the “mashrabiya”, a traditional Islamic lattice shading device.]
CHARACTERSTICS OF FACADE-The facade on Al Bahar , computer-controlled to respond to optimal solar and light conditions, has never been achieved on this scale before. In addition, the expression of this outer skin seems to firmly root the building in its cultural context
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