London, GB
The Masdar Institute is the first part of the wider Masdar City masterplan to be realised and creates an educational focus for the entire programme. The Institute embodies the principles and goals of Masdar to create a prototypical and sustainable city and is the first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar energy. The design incorporates a variety of passive and active environmental strategies and will be used as a test-bed for the sustainable technologies that will be explored for implementation in future Masdar City buildings.
Status: Built
Location: Abu Dhabi, AE
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
M+E Engineer: PHA Consult
Additional Consultants: Gillespies, Claude Engle Lighting Design, RFD, Decarbon8, Systematica, Lerch Bates, Arup, Sandy Brown, WS Atkins, Acentech, RWDI, Mott MacDonald, RW Armstrong
