Mohammad bin Rashid Gardens

Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens is a planned district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With an estimated investment about 60 billion U.S. dollars and an area of ​​88 square kilometers - around 60 square kilometers of open, green spaces and water - it is one of the most ambitious urban planning projects in the world. The planned city to be living and working space for 200,000 people once.

The logistic performance in this construction project is southwest of the Business Bay to transform through clever water management, the previously dry desert land into an oasis. The building concept binds the water supply in the city and so the planner to view fulfills many requirements that are placed on a modern city in terms of transport, recreation and the environment. To this extent, the major project for a new Dubai turning to sustainability principle dar. advertised the project will, inter alia, with animation videos that bring together a blend of elements of Venice, Amsterdam, New York, Canberra, a safari park and the Spree Forest.

Water and Environment

The master plan for the new district was created by the architect Eric Kuhne (London, Civic Arts), a specialist in urban design and made ​​in March of 2008 by Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The plan is the provision of new housing, schools and universities, financial and shopping centers, as well as some striking administrative and cultural buildings. In particular, the urbanization will also offer attractive tourist landscapes and more landscaped area than London and New York have together. With the building was originally to be started in the autumn of 2008, due to the economic crisis, the project is postponed for Z..

Water is pumped into this new housing estate through a 150 -kilometer-long canal network with reservoirs and waterways. Thus, a harbor similar, often small spatially structured, city arises in the water '. The navigable even with medium-sized ships channel system will enrich the urban life and reduce road traffic. It also provides habitat for animal and plant life available and provides leisure and recreational opportunities and, not least, a good marketable urban planning backdrop.

With its shores and shallow water areas of the approximately 14 km long " Grand Canal ", the up to 700 meters in width expands and emulate as the main axis of the Grand Canal of Venice, also give many creatures room next to the busy traffic. The natural design of the city with parks, canals, lakes, boat moorings, bridges and islands, retention and storage basin will create habitats for wildlife and plants that attract migratory birds and promote the hitherto restricted species richness in Dubai. New green spaces will release oxygen and filter out carbon dioxide from the air. Planted building facades and the interspersed naturally pristine desert strip will create networked fresh air corridors, which invite for walking or cycling to residents. As is known, have hardly been exercised because of the hot climate, Dubai such " simple" outdoor activities during the day.

The riparian zone is varied design, such as stone walls inlaid with plant troughs. The river banks are secured with plantable stones and shallow reservoirs enable easy access to the public beach sections. Reed habitats are incorporated in the channel course and purified the water with a combination of technical and plant ( biological ) filtration systems and processed.

Following the example of old Arab architecture water channels, fountains and pools structure the extensive gardens of Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. The parks and canals are designed according to the traditional Arab pattern based on the astrolabe. This ancient instrument used in the Arab world once for measuring angles in the sky and was now to design basis of the new district. Therefore, almost all landscape designs in Arabia look like " gezirkelt " from.

The Grand Canal is the Dubai Creek and its extension to be connected in the Business Bay and meander after, astrolabe pattern ' through the four quarters of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. Another west trassierte water connection directly to Jumeirahstrand is provided. Thus, the water city will conduct an active exchange of water with all connected parts of the city of Dubai. The highlight of the watercourses will be the central location, large lake with fountain, where the water runs together apparently.

City Spatial conditioning

There will be four so-called homes that match rather large neighborhoods. Each of these houses (in the sense of a common connecting ) is devoted primarily to a topic. In the "House of humanity" to find non-profit organizations and museums around the theme of civilization. In the "House of the trade", in close proximity to the Business Bay, international companies and banks will be housed. The "House of Wisdom" includes a large library, universities, the mosque and universities for history and science. The "House of Nature " is dedicated to the environment and will have next to a zoological garden with large outdoor enclosure surfaces also parks and research facilities for the conservation of nature. The gigantism of these designs can be seen also that most of these elaborate facilities have yet to be established.

Energy efficiency

Low water and energy consumption values ​​are also part of the care plan for Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. Modern control systems and energy-efficient features of the building will keep consumption to a minimum. Intelligently designed facades are designed to maximize the use of sunlight. Solar thermal technology will meet the demand for hot water and cool the buildings that are not connected to the city wide cooling system. The city design will also recycle a high degree of water: A sophisticated water treatment produces domestic hot water to be reduce the consumption of drinking water of the city and used for irrigation of the green areas.

Transport concept

Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens stands out by its sewer equipment from most of the other new and large-scale neighborhoods in Dubai from. This is planned for the first time, all the traffic, both economic and supply services as well as passenger traffic to subordinate a coherent concept of sustainability considerations. The conditions on the " tabula rasa " of the development area could not be better: the planned city can consistently rely on a combined traffic from roads, branched waterways, public rail transport ( planned second phase of the Dubai Metro), close-knit bus lines and extensive bicycle and pedestrian paths. Thus, for example Supplies through the channels provided or car trips are replaced by solar water taxis during rush hour.