Designing a sustainable house in the desert of Abu Dhabi

Al-Sallal, Khaled A.; Al-Rais, Laila; Dalmouk, Maitha Bin

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.061

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“…Thus, before improving the house performance by proper design of the greenery, it was necessary to optimize its form design so that distribution of load becomes a bit more uniform with smaller magnitude at each component, and thus easier to solve. That was done in a previous stage in which the courtyard form was tested and evaluated against a typical Emirati house [19]. The typical house yielded load distribution as follows: 25% for roof, 23.5% windows solar, walls 20%, and 30% for other components.…”

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Mitigating Heat Gain Using Greenery of an Eco-House in Abu Dhabi

Al-Sallal¹,

Al-Rais²

2011

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Two fundamental design strategies should be taken into consideration when designing a residential building in desert climates, they are as follows: minimizing solar heat gain through shading and proper building envelope and maximizing passive cooling through natural ventilation. By introducing extensive vegetation yet carefully distributed, shading of building's facades or roofs will directly mitigate heat gain through building envelope. An eco-house was designed in Abu Dhabi with special attention to greenery. In this study, landscape elements were intensively analyzed with the aim of reducing heat gain and improving overall building energy performance. Landscape elements such as green roofs, grass ground cover and greenery next to external walls were simulated in order to achieve optimum energy performance. The use of outdoor landscape (grass ground cover and shade trees) has made a 9% improvement of performance over the reference case regarding the electrical energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The energy use of the house dropped down by 16% for cooling and 18% for fan operation. With regards to the green roof scenario, a performance improvement of 19% over the base case has been achieved. The energy use of the house dropped down by 24% for cooling and 27% for fan operation.

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Mitigating Heat Gain Using Greenery of an Eco-House in Abu Dhabi

Al-Sallal¹,

Al-Rais²

2011

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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“…For the local authority, Abu Dhabi Municipality (ADM), five representatives were met including two chief engineers, one senior engineer working in the Urban Planning Department and two Chief engineers from the Construction Permits Department. Two professional planners were also interviewed based on their involvement in Beside the recent research studies that focused on enhancing environmental sustainability in these neighborhoods [27,28], one study concluded that social sustainability was poorly achieved in local neighborhoods mainly due to the lack of safe and pleasant pedestrian/cycling facilities and housing diversity [29]. On the other hand, recent research indicated that the ownership of cars in Abu Dhabi is rapidly growing at a rate of 24% annually with a high dependency on cars for most journeys.…”

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Replacing Land-Use Planning with Localized Form-Based Codes in the United Arab Emirates: A Proposed Method

Sabri

Ahmed

2019

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Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is one of the pioneering cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region that have recently prepared urban sustainability agendas for their cities. Nonetheless, the recently developed urban neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi mostly rely on Land Use planning and their urban forms are still missing essential sustainability qualities. The Form-Based Code (FBC), a sustainable planning tool that helps realize sustainable urban forms, is suggested in this research as an alternative for the conventional Land Use planning currently applied for new urban neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi. The research adopted a method for 'localizing' the global tenets and initiation processes of FBCs that outfit the local urban conditions. The investigation of the locally applied form-related regulations and guidelines revealed that they could be transformed into a localized FBC, but still lack some essential components of the FBC's principles while the community involvement in initiating them was fairly limited. The research examined the applicability of this localized FBC model through interviewing the concerned stakeholders to identify the challenges that might face the adoption of it. The research concluded with recommending a set of actions for implementing the model in Abu Dhabi and other cities sharing similar urban circumstances.

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“…For example, some studies focused on "the thermal optimization of windows glass in relation to orientation in a representative governmental housing project" in Abu Dhabi (Abuimara and Tabet Aoul, 2013). Another study introduced a comprehensive approach to design a sustainable house in the desert of Abu Dhabi to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Al-Sallal, Al-Rais and Dalmouk, 2013). But more importantly, one study examined the social aspect of sustainability in local neighborhoods.…”

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Towards a Localized Form-Based Code for Abu Dhabi Urban Neighbours

Sabri¹

2017

Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE 2017)

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Designing a sustainable house in the desert of Abu Dhabi

Cited by 42 publications

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Mitigating Heat Gain Using Greenery of an Eco-House in Abu Dhabi

Mitigating Heat Gain Using Greenery of an Eco-House in Abu Dhabi

Replacing Land-Use Planning with Localized Form-Based Codes in the United Arab Emirates: A Proposed Method

Towards a Localized Form-Based Code for Abu Dhabi Urban Neighbours

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