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Friday, March 26, 2010

Rising of the New Moon

New Moon

Financial crisis — not a hindrance for scale building of landscape park Zabil. «The new Moon» becomes the central construction of the project. The construction in the form of a half moon — a symbol of force and energy of the countries of the East — will tell about today's prosperity of the United Arab Emirates.

The New Moon in Dubai

New Moon in Dubai

Monument interiors contain 5 floors. Everyone symbolizes one of five postulates of Islam: belief, a pray, mercy, mutual aid and pilgrimage. The design contains in itself a conference hall, cafe, children's library and an information desk.

New Moon monument

The Economic Moon

The external part of a building decorated by the Arabian inscriptions represents a steel skeleton with emptiness. Such decision will give the chance to supervise illumination and air temperature on all platforms of the New Moon, will protect an interior from a direct sunlight and will provide free circulation of air streams. Inside there will be a special microclimate which will unload the central systems of safety. The project completely corresponds to ecological building standards. Solar batteries will be built in in a building covering, and it considerably will lower energy consumption.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Solar energy absorber

Vertical Village

For the next addition to a sky of the city of Dubai architectural studio Graft Lab answers. The new object is called “Vertical Village”. This set of multi-functional buildings applies on LEED Gold Certificate.

Architectural generation

The architectural decision is optimised for climatic conditions of a place; the building minimises heating from the sun and on-maximum uses possibilities for solar energy manufacture.
The building for itself creates a shade, in northern block, and on east and a West side is built in such a manner that penetration of long solar beams is complicated.

The new object

Multi-functional buildings

LEED Gold Certificate

Building in Dubai