EXPO

Main idea

This house envisions a luxurious villa that blends traditional Arabic elements with innovative solar architecture. By integrating heritage-inspired forms, intricate detailing, and modern technology, the villa achieves a harmonious fusion of aesthetics, sustainability, and contemporary elegance.

Sustainability

Harnessing Dubai’s intense sunlight, this villa transforms energy into elegance. High-tech German innovations, including BIPVs and transparent solar panels, seamlessly merge with architecture, generating power while casting dynamic patterns of light and shade. A fusion of sustainability and luxury, the design redefines modern living in harmony with nature.

Solar components

This concept fuses solar technology with architecture, balancing energy efficiency and elegance. PVs and BIPVs generate power, while intelligent shading, wind catchers, tensile Arabic forms, a green roof, and a luminous atrium optimize cooling. German passive house expertise is reimagined for Dubai, shifting from heat retention to cooling while preserving the same sustainable principles.

All solar components represent the latest advancements in green technologies, yet with a clear Arab, regional reference. The main textiles are stretched in a subtle, deformed structure that recalls Arabic arches. The rooftop garden is planted with regional vegetation, primarily palms and tropical plants. The opening of the wind catcher also reflects these architectural forms and harmonizes with the fundamental geometry of the concept.

Green roof

The green roof is an extremely smart and multifunctional choice that not only provides aesthetic value but can also be designed with regional planting. Through its evaporative cooling, it helps reduce energy demand. The underlying construction always requires specific detailed planning, which varies depending on the application. Planting larger vegetation is easily possible when the appropriate structural components are designed accordingly. The best manufacturers of these components collaborate closely on development and implementation.

BIPV

On the vertical outer side of the wind catcher, 55 m² of photovoltaic systems are integrated as BIPVs, providing an additional 8 kW of self-generated electricity. Further suitable vertical surfaces on the building can be covered with additional BIPVs if needed to further increase energy production. The specific application of this product in the concept has been carefully chosen, with the best manufacturer, known for their long experience in the field, collaborating during the development to ensure optimal performance and integration.

Smart sun shade

Given the hot climate of the region with extremely hot summers, terraces are an ideal choice to provide shade for the building. To further control solar radiation and ensure visual comfort when needed, external intelligent shading elements are used on two sides of the building. Leading manufacturers of this smart technology, both in terms of product quality and intelligent control systems, collaborate within the framework of this design.

Wind catcher

The designed wind catcher stands at the center of the concept. It integrates 55 m² of BIPVs while simultaneously providing natural ventilation, enhanced by the evaporative cooling effect of the pool. This natural ventilation is further supported by a central air atrium that automatically draws the warm air upward. This area is cooled in two ways – firstly, by the shadow of the main textile structure, which provides additional shading in the central area of the concept, and secondly, through the effective cooling of the air.