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Eco Architecture: LAVA Studio to design the city center of Masdar City

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Eco Factor: Sustainable city center for a totally sustainable eco-city in the desert.

Australian studio LAVA has won an international competition to design the center of Masdar, a completely sustainable city in the desert. The design will include a central plaza, five-star hotel, long stay hotel, convention center, entertainment complex and retail facilities.

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The winning design from the company includes a public plaza, which is inspired by traditional European cities and can withstand the climate of the Middle East. The design house wanted to create an open plaza, where you could breathe fresh air and see the sky, in an effort to propos real human interaction.

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The requirements tempted the design house to have the plaza with “solar umbrellas”, which could capture solar energy during the day while providing shade and can be closed at night releasing the heat up into the sky and cool the plaza naturally.

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The plan also includes the construction of adaptive building facades, which can be altered in angle to offset or maximize solar gain. The plan will also include roof gardens for on-site food production, energy generation, water efficiency and reuse of organic food waste.

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Via: ArchitectureAndDesign/AustralianDesignReview

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