Meydan City in Dubai has this unique green skyscraper called The Origami that is basically a vertical apartment complex that balances ...
Meydan City in Dubai has this unique green skyscraper called The Origami that is basically a vertical apartment complex that balances livability of an urban resident without compromising the lovely suburban appeal for lush green gardens that apartment dwellers would enjoy. Designed by Kann Finch, it has extended internal living areas with extensive balconies and uplifting window walls thereby maintaining a high quality of living for dwellers. It features a patterned glass screen that provides unique aesthetic element from the outside and a practical solution to the hot desert sun as a powerful shade and privacy screen.
The landscaped structure has a base that provides a connected vertical green taking shape of the skyscraper's physical structure and providing garden to the apartments. The basic tower is eroded to an ‘H’ plan with a central core while the legs are connected at every fifth level, generate extensive roof gardens at interplay with the vertical landscape that brings a multifaceted greening to the apartment outlook as well as assisting in the moderation of the vertical micro-climate.
The 26-floor building has (1) one floor of three, two-bed units, (2) two, two-storey four-bed units and (3) two floors of two, three-bed units. Each unit enjoys an open quality that extends internal living areas to extensive balconies with fully-operable uplifting window walls that provide a seamless indoor-outdoor experience.
The vertical surface of the tower to the East and the West are layered with a rich patterned, solid glass screen that not only develops a unique expression appropriate to location and culture but provides privacy to the immediate tower neighbors to those facades. The tower is further eroded at its second to fifth levels and the twenty-second and twenty-third levels to allow the vertical landscape to enrich the ‘H’ structure via its multifaceted planting frames, the landscape expression is as though an organism that has invaded the tower and caused the formal erosion.
This multi layered formal proposition, offers a quality of vertical living that at once is generous, unique and delightful. Its simple structure supports a lifestyle and experience, that tower inhabitation does not normally provide, whilst enriching the urban streetscape with a sculptural interplay of form, surface and light for both its resident and extended community.
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