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 envis
The Masdar City master plan The master plan for the whole city (6km2) was created by Foster+Partners, combining traditional Arabic city building principles, combined with current and future technologies. The Swiss Village will be located between the Institute of Science and Technology and the cen...
The AS+GG design will also anchor the Masdar City master plan by Foster + Partners. The Masdar Headquarters building will go beyond zero net energy; it will be the world's first mixed-use, large-scale positive-energy building. The building will utilize pioneering, never-before-seen technology...
Since its inception, the city's master plan has been shepherded by Foster + Partners, who have also designed all of the buildings to date (except the most recently completed Siemens Building). Nothing in the city appears to have been conceived without thoughtful intention. The face of every ...
“The PV modules on a 22ha-site on the Masdar City boundary are the largest in the Middle East.” Masdar City master plan Being developed 17km from Abu Dhabi, Masdar City will be one of the most sustainable cities in the world. The 6km² Masdar City project is being developed by th...
vertical farming nearly 10 years ago, in 2009, and executive director for sustainable real estate at Masdar City, Yousef Baselaib, explains that ‘urban farming’ was always part of Masdar’s integrated master plan because the city is intended to be a prototype for all aspects...
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They have been herded together so as to create shaded lanes narrow enough to generate a cooling breeze, like a traditional walled city. This is Masdar, the Arab word for source. Construction workers moved on to the site three months after Foster won a competition to do the plan. It is ...