I see many designs for buildings created with oil money in oil rich states of the Middle East. I would love to find a site online or a coffee table book that allow me to see them together so that I could study them more closey.
This can really be some cutting edge stuff like this design idea for a museum in the UAE, and is located on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and will be the first museum completed for the island.
I am especially impressed with the way the shape of the building acts as it's own cooling system
"The display spaces are housed within a man-made, landscaped mound. The galleries are placed at the bases of five solar thermal towers. The towers heat up and act as thermal chimneys to draw cooling air currents naturally through the museum. Fresh air is captured at low level and drawn through buried ground-cooling pipes and then released into the museum’s lobby. The heat at the top of the towers works to draw the air up vertically through the galleries due to the thermal stack effect. Air vents open at the top of the wing-shaped towers taking advantage of the negative pressure on the lee of the wing profile to draw the hot air out."
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It's a cool looking building but I'll be impressed when these geniuses can build something like it in Canada and design it so it stays warm in winter and cool in the summer. Now that's a challenge.
That is cool architecture. I looks similar to the Sydney Opera house, but it's even more impressive.
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I bet there is some way to build it near the hotsprings that would allow cheap winter warmth. The save desert tech would work in the hot days of summer, M.D.
Wow! What an imagination by whomever came up with this thing...
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