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