The LIT
Light Infinite Transformation
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2018
CLIENT
MUNICIPALITY
TYPOLOGY
PUBLIC SPACES - INFRASTRUCTURE
SIZE MQ / FT2
85.000 - 915,000
STATUS
SPECIAL MENTION
SHARE
The LIT is accessible from a main road that assigns the value of GATE to the city of Masdar.
Present but not arrogant, visible and different in its forms, useful and functional. The shape of The LIT is the sculptural synthesis of its functioning (gravity to generate waterfalls) and its strong presence on the site.
It is a synthesis of strongly fractal natural energies (light, wind, sand, water) and urban fabric.
The southernmost portion of the LIT remains deliberately poorly designed, as if to welcome the desert in this north finger, aware that it cannot and does not want to oppose the force of the desert winds and its dunes. Here the desert will continue to draw the territory.
Dense and “random” vegetation will be the true natural monument of this part of the project site.
The LIT site hosts an important part of the garden on it, almost 15 meters high, aware of a destiny marked by which the desert can grow and reaffirm its invisibility.
This “PINCHING / SEWING” effect produces a series of urban public and semi-public spaces between the two curtains of adjacent buildings.
The LIT is accessible from a main road that assigns the value of GATE to the city of Masdar. Present but noz arrogant, visible and different in its forms, useful and functional. e street level and the lower floor.
