Masdar city

Sustainable development to include 2,000 apartments

The Masdar Institute is the first part of the wider Masdar City masterplan to be realised and creates an educational focus for the entire programme. The Institute embodies the principles and goals of Masdar to create a prototypical and sustainable city and is the first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar energy. The design incorporates a variety of passive and active environmental strategies and will be used as a test-bed for the sustainable technologies that will…

explored for implementation in future Masdar City buildings. The Institute’s residences and laboratories are oriented to shade both the adjacent buildings and the pedestrian streets below and the facades are also self-shading. Over 5,000 square metres of roof-mounted photovoltaic installations provide power and further protection from the direct sun. A 10-megawatt solar field within the masterplan site provides 60 per cent more energy than is consumed by the Masdar Institute, all of…

Masdar is a new city and technology hub developed to create educational and commercial zones for the research and development of sustainable design and energy technologies. Originally envisioned as a carbon neutral city, Masdar’s early development envisioned an elevated pedestrian city with transportation built below the podium. The first phase included construction of the Masdar Institute of Technology. As this took shape, it became evident that a new vision was needed to continue the plan.

The Masdar Institute is the first part of the wider Masdar City masterplan to be realised and creates an educational focus for the entire programme. The Institute embodies the principles and goals of Masdar to create a prototypical and sustainable city and is the first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar energy. The design incorporates a variety of passive and active environmental strategies and will be used as a test-bed for the sustainable technologies that will…

At the UN’s World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi, attendees toured Masdar City, the master-planned eco-complex designed to show off the UAE’s commitment to sustainability.

Week 12: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. This city was projected to have 0% Carbon Emissions by 2020, but now progress has slowed and pushed back to 2030.

Through a contemporary reinterpretation of sustainable technologies and the urban planning principles that are built...

German-Australian practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) recently won the first prize in the Masdar Eco City Center Competition for Masdar, United Arab Em...