DESERT FLOWER

DUBAI GLOBAL ENERGY FORUM

Desert flora have adapted to the extremes of heat and aridity by using both physical and behavioral mechanisms.

An architecture that emulates a flower, opens and closes to adapt to the ecosystem. By day, closed, protected from the sun, while at night, opened, breathes and cools.

Constructed with a structure of the desert tents (jaima), works like this, managing energy in a conventional mode, but with current technology.

Wraps the public space and appropriates it, creating an inside shaded square, and a shaded park. Communication elements appear as a root, elevating over the many roads that surround, To allow direct connection from other points in the environment.

“Hiding in her desert place

There lives a desert rose

Not much water   little rain

Yet on and on she goes...

Day to day she shows her face

To those who can not see

All her beauty hides the pain

And tears that set her free...

Still there's One who shed His grace

Upon this desert rose

Always with her shall remain

Because her heart He knows.”


Authors: Javier Janda & Usue Beraza