Masdar


At 17 km south-east of the capital of the UAE , near the airport of Abu Dhabi is built a unique city of Masdar. The initiator of its creation was the government of the country. The eco-city project was developed by the British company Foster and Partners. Its cost is $ 22 billion.

Features Masdar - the city of the future

The ambitious project of the Arabian eco-city Masdar was approved in 2006. Its construction is designed for 8 years and has unique features:

  1. Power supply. It is assumed that Masdar City in Abu Dhabi will be the first city in the world to provide itself with solar energy. Solar panels will be installed on all buildings and around them. Already today, a solar power station with a capacity of 10 MW has been built here. Next to it, a thermal power station has been erected, on which 250,000 parabolic reflectors are installed. This installation can provide hot water and heating for about 20 thousand homes.
  2. Ecology. Here there will be a stable ecological environment with the most minimal emissions of carbon dioxide and complete processing of waste products. For this purpose, a resource processing center will be opened in the city of the future. The collection and use of rainwater for the needs of the city was designed.
  3. Architecture. It should successfully combine the traditional Arabic style with cutting-edge, while the most progressive materials, energy consumption and generation systems will be used.
  4. Activity. It is planned that the scientists of the UAE will live in Masdar and work on high-tech start-ups. There will be about one and a half thousand different enterprises and institutions that specialize in developing environmentally friendly technologies. The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is already open here, which closely cooperates with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  5. Transport. According to the plan, there will be no motor transport in the city at all, and instead of it it is supposed to use the so-called robotic transport in the form of 2getthere unmanned electric cars for transportation of passengers. The usual machines must be left outside the city in the parking lot.
  6. Climate. Around the echogorod erected a high wall to protect against the hot desert winds. And the lack of cars will make it possible to divide the whole urban area into narrow shady streets, which will be blown by a cool breeze from a special cooling generator.

Masdar today

In connection with the global crisis of 2008-2009, the construction of the eco city was suspended, but later the work was resumed. In 2017, Masdar looks like an unfinished building with dead sands and red-hot roads, and next to them are clusters with beautiful apartment buildings built around the institute. These buildings are designed so that the shadow from them protects passers-by on a sultry day. Above the town is covered with a specially designed openwork structure, which also creates a shadow.

There are several large business centers in Masdar City, in which the offices of large companies are located. There are supermarkets, where organic products are sold, there is a bank, cafes and restaurants. In the city, several huge parking lots have been built in which electric vehicles can be charged. The construction of a unique ekoroda Masdar City, though slowly, but still moving forward, and soon a super-modern oasis of high technologies will grow in the desert.

How to get to Masdar?

You can get there by the E10 motorway in a rented car or by taxi, but there are no excursions here, so you can get to the city only by working invitation.