Wave Tower

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[Image: Rendering of the Wave Tower, Dubai, by Studio A-cero]

Dubai. What can I even say – the place is crazy. I can recall a time not too long ago, when I was still in school, where insane ‘object’ buildings were mostly designed by the ‘starchitects’ and were typically institutional [museums, concert halls, etc] projects. No more. Dubai is an architecture student’s dream-come-true. There are no rules, just design something crazy and those ninjas will probably build it, so long as its different enough. Don’t worry about context, as there is no more vernacular architecture [well, there is actually – individualism and elaborate form-making are the vernacular]. Just one-up the other guy, and your project can get built.

But here’s the real question: is there anything wrong with the architecture of Dubai? At first I was fascinated, then I was put-off by the amount of unique ‘object’ buildings going up [and the personal islands]. Now, as time goes on and Dubai continues on it’s building trend, I find myself unsure of how I feel about it all. I think part of the issue is that people realize that Dubai has found a truly capitalistic architecture – designing crazy shit because you have all that paper stacked – and find it aggravating. We’re a funny people, Americans – we love our own excessive wastefulness, but hate everyone else’s [if Dubai’s building trend can even be called excessive or wasteful, which I don’t honestly think it can]. Now the US has all these mixed feelings over the construction going on in the UAE because we [well, not ‘we’, but those who came before us] decided that we’d form a capitalist culture with just enough puritanism mixed in to give us mediocre [at best] architecture – leaving American ‘excesses’ to take the form of multiple cars per family, big lawns, and eating too much crappy food, instead of splurging on building ridiculous homes and office towers.

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[Image: Rendering of the Wave Tower]

My rant aside – here we have one of the newest proposals for Dubai: the Wave Tower by Studio A-cero. The proposed mixed-use [commercial, office + high end residential] tower would be the first on the Dubai waterfront – and would literally be on the water. A large undulating plane creates a bridge to the base of the tower, then folds upwards as one of the twisting silk-screened glass sides of the structure. Located in the Madinat Al Arab District, the tower will be 92 floors/370 meters when complete – and will be the highest tower designed by Spanish architects.

The project is located in the Madinat Al Arab District, a zone under development that is expected to become the new downtown and central business district of Dubai. When built, the Wave Tower will become the highest tower designed by Spanish architects.

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[Image: Wave Tower plans]

The structure of the tower is addressed through ‘V’ form unions between the individual parts of the plan, with the center of the building used as the vertical circulation core [elevators, etc.]. Common space has been allocated throughout the plans, creating interior ‘sky gardens’ – working to improve the interior air quality and naturally regulate interior temperatures.

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[Image: Wave Tower section]

In addition to these ‘sky gardens’ [seen in the section above] to help control the interior environment, the project’s silk-screened glass skin helps in solar control, and the building boasts ‘state of the art sustainable technologies’ to minimize energy consumption and maximize water efficiency.

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[Image: Rendering of the Wave Tower]

Visit A-cero’s webpage here.

::Images and information courtesy of A-cero – MNP thanks Ignacio Garcia [of A-cero] for letting us know about the project::

Posted: November 28th, 2007
at 11:14pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture,green arch,towering pagodas

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