LIWA Tower

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Location

2014

Realized

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

Facts

Year: 2014

Typology: Highrise, Office

City: Abu Dhabi

Country: United Arab Emirates

Client: Al Nasser Investments, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Budget: undisclosed

Floor area: 21.604 m2

Team:

Lead designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd
Project architect: Gijs Joosen
Design Team: Marthijn Pool, Ronald Brandsma, Petr Vokal, Jan Gasparik, Tim McGinley

Partners:

Architectural Consulting Group (ACG), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Northcroft Middle East, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tag That Body: Architecture, Digital, Point cloud

Shape That Body: Automotive styling, CNC manufacturing, Component, Diagrid, File to factory, Nonstandard, Parametric, Scripting, The new beauty, Vectorial body, Mass customization

Art: Powerlines

Interview with Kas Oosterhuis by Marwa Al-Sabouni of Arch-News.net

Description

Nonstandard and cost-effective design approach

Although the design constraints were strict we found a strategy which features a combination of iconic architecture and a functional lay-out. ONL has valuable experience with realizing non-standard architecture for standard budgets. Architecture, construction and decoration are integrated in one consistent design attitude. The structural logic is expressed in the architecture, the decorative patterns of the facade are the detailed expression of the architectural tessellation of the surfaces. This integrated approach forms the basis for the fusion of cost-effectiveness and architectural eloquence.

ONL decided to develop a vase shaped tower, narrow at its base, gaining volume in the shaft and tapered towards the top. Since plot C.08 is a plot with a medium sized tower [GF + 1 + 19 Floors] ONL wishes to have a narrower top to allow for more open views from the higher buildings around. The vase has been styled by subtly slicing and chamfering the otherwise rectangular floorplan. Relatively modest interventions and parametric modifications of the rectangular basic shape while retaining the structural integrity of the design created the iconic appearance of the Liwa Tower, resulting in a net / gross ratio of over 90%.