The Strata Tower, a forty-story, luxury residential building designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote,
has broken ground on Al Raha Beach and is now under construction. The
tower is scheduled for completion in early 2011 and, at a height of 160
meters, will be the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct, the
centerpiece of Aldar Properties PJSC’s prestigious Al Raha Beach
development. The project and development was showcased at Cityscape Abu
Dhabi from May 13–15, 2008. The landmark Strata Tower is designed to
signify a dignified and important future for Abu Dhabi and the region.
As a signature architectural statement, the Strata Tower’s
articulate, striking physical presence seeks to encapsulate meaning
through the use of abstract form drawn from both local cultural
landscapes and motifs and dynamic forces of global influence. The Strata
Tower’s design utilizes primarily mathematical means in its design to
achieve both a poetic, as well as highly pertinent, architecture for the
UAE, a region in flux with ambitions for continued rapid growth.
The Strata Tower’s innovative form was created using
state-of-the-art, advanced parametric modeling tools and techniques from
the onset of the design process to the production phase. The building’s
design emerged from various influences and factors including economies
of production and fabrication with special consideration given to
environmental sustainability. Sophisticated computer modeling and tools
were utilized to produce the building’s intelligent, environmentally
responsive louver system that is held in a unique, cantilevered
exoskeleton structure. The exoskeleton veils the entire tower in a
shimmering curvilinear form set against Abu Dhabi’s surrounding desert
and sea, embracing and reflecting the ever-changing light and
atmospheres that enfold and contain it.
As architecture the Strata Tower resists being an overt, singular
gesture reliant on a set meaning or association. Rather, the
mathematical properties used, not unlike those in the manifestation of
the arabesque or abstract calligraphy; give the building its supreme
elegance, prominence and potential for meaning and significance.
Images: ©Asymptote Architecture
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