The United Arab Emirates has been overrun with a surge of dearly-won and extravagant ontogeny over the past decade including the Palm Islands and Burj Khalifa in Dubai . Now , a 125,000 square - beat park in Abu Dhabi will bring together them — but this is n’t your ordinary mega - development .
The beautiful design is accredit to Thomas Heatherwick , an imaginative and innovative architect who has a rich history of implement the rude surroundings of the site ’s emplacement into his projects . Here , he uses the classifiable texture of a wry and crack desert as the façade for the canopy plan that shades the park .
purpose for completion in 2017 , Al Fayah Park will shoot a line a seemingly endless net of canopies that double as walkable terraces . Additionally , they will put up a vivacious microcosm of life underneath unadulterated with cafés , community gardens , a public library , unpaid spaces , as well as public kitty and saunas . “ These elevated pieces [ will also ] create a perforated canopy of partial shadiness under which a plushy garden can acquire , protected from the blistering desert sun , ” Heatherwick notes .
However , despite the nimiety of ontogenesis and wealthiness that has been flowing into the UAE , there is still a shortage and dependence on water system that strangles these projection and makes them both dear and inefficient . Therefore , finding a way to create a sustainable manakin for the park was a challenge for Heatherwick .
Consequently , he elected to desolate the traditional car park design that rely too heavily on irrigation to water its countless blanket of supergrass . Instead , Heatherwick opted for a born solution that will limit the vapor of the park ’s water by reducing the intensity of the sun .
The park ’s design is not only beautiful , it is extremely functional as it blend in the lifelike landscape painting into a self - sustaining effigy of itself . “ Instead of abnegate the presence of the desert that the metropolis is built on , we set up ourselves the labor of making a parkland out of the desert itself , ” thus , protecting the integrity of the desert ’s most natural resource — its beauty .
Images : Thomas Heatherwick
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