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Strata Tower

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 , Posted by HB at 10:08 PM

The Strata Tower, a forty-story, luxury residential building designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lisa Anne of Asymptot. has broken Al Raha Beach and is now under construction. The tower is scheduled for completion in early 2011 and, at a height 0f 160 meters, will be the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct, the centerpiece of Aldar Properties PJG’s prestigious Al –Raha Beach Development. The project and development has showcased at Citycape Abu Dhabi from May 13 – 15, 2008. The Landmark Strata Tower is designed to signify a dignified and important future for Abu Dhabi and the region.

As a signature architectural statement, the Srtata Tower’s articulate, striking phyical presence seeks to encapsulate meaning through the use of abstract from drawn from both local cultural landscapes and motifs and dynamic forces of global influence. The Strata Tower’s design utilizes primarily mathematical means in its design to achieve both a poetic, as well as highliy pertinent, architecture, for the UAE, a region in flux with ambitions for continued rapid growth.

The Strata Tower’s innovative form was created using state of the art, advanced parametric modeling tools and techniques from the onset of the design process to the production phase. The building’s design emerged from various influences and factors including economies of production and fabrications with special concideration given to enviromental sustanability. Sophisticated computer modeling and tools were utilized to produced the building’s intelligent, enviromentally responsive louver system that is held in a unique, cantilevered, exoskeleton structure. The exoskeleteon veils the entire tower in a shimmering curvilinear form set against Abu Dhabi’s surrounding desert and sea, embracing and reflecting the ever changing light and atmospheres that enfold and contain it.

As architecture teh Strata Tower resists being an overt, singular gesture reliant on a set meaning or association. Rather, the mathematical properties used, not unlike those in the manifestation of the arabesque or abstract calligraphy; give the building its supreme elegance, prominence and potential for meaning and significance.