Masdar City: (Source) The City of Sustainability and Renewable Energy

(Source) The City of sustainability and renewable energy; first in the world.

Private builders: giant umbrellas, with a design inspired by sunflower, which will provide shading tools that move throughout the day, store heat, and then close and release heat at night in the courtyard of the eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.

'The Umbrellas sunflower' designed by the Global Laboratory architectural visions [LAVA]is the first city in the world that have a zero carbon and zero waste, and fully recharging of renewable energy sources.

The Source is located 17 kilometers from Abu Dhabi. It's backed by the government and it is being constructed over seven phases.It's scheduled to be completed by the year 2016.

Designs of the city center includes the Plaza (square), and five-star hotel, conference centers, entertainment and retail shops.

LAVA, a two years old firm has won the international competition against several hundred of the projects submitted. There was a strong competition from some of the most important architects in the world.

Masdar City: A Source of Inspiration

As the founder of the Office Chris Boss said: "Masdar City is the most important projects that focus on sustainable design of energy in the world, a city of the future and develop a global standard for sustainable urban development. We believe in the slogan Masdar City 'in one day ... all the cities will be like this. "

The Boss: (operating umbrellas 'sunflower' solar energy to capture the sun's rays during the day, at night times the release of heat stored and opened again the next day. They belong to the projected rays from the sun to provide continuous shade during the day, and can be used anywhere in the world including deserts).

Masdar City will be exemplary in all things sustainable, there are some controversial elements, which include public transport system, which includes magnetic individual vehicles that force you to your destination using solar energy, in order to keep the city free of cars.

Paints on the surfaces of the walls respond to changing temperatures and contain the minimum of the stored energy.

Water fountains: water stored underground during the day and by night flows strongly by force of pedestrians; interactive lamp, inspired by the Oasis fire, becames a forum for 3-dimensional interactive media installation.

Interactive, and the technology of heat-sensitive lighting that activates in response to pedestrian traffic and the use of mobile phones, and roof gardens that integrate food production, power generation, water use efficiency and reuse of organic food waste, are just some features of many.

"Organic shapes" created by the forces of erosion of natural geographic features such as canyons and valleys are the source of inspiration behind the design of the major buildings in the city center.