Architecture & Master Planning
King Abdullah City for Atomic Energy and Renewable Energy, Saudi Arabia, 2010
Client: King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy
Team: Dr Ken Yeang, Bert McCabe, Robert Powell, Asako Hayashi, See Ching Toh, Gianluca Ruggeri, Adam Johnson, Carl Malony, Ting Lam Tang, King Foo Yiu. In association with Umn Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Dr Amjed Maghrabi and Dr Abdulghani Monawar
Consultant: Buro Happold
The UQU/LDY/BH masterplan for King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy is an extraordinary innovative design that signals the way forward to a sustainable future. It presents a vision of the future Saudi Arabian city – one that is entirely driven by renewable energy in the form of a solar chimney, photo voltaic arrays, a wind farm, deep thermal energy and Waste-to-Energy plant.
The masterplan is a unique statement of a way forward starting from a strong theoretical proposition that the future city must be self sustaining in energy. It is intended that KA-CARE will take its place in a global network of similar pioneering cities for the 21st century and beyond.