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Iris Mist, Building, Property, Image, Architect, Tower, Design, Development
Dubai Skyscraper : Images + Information
Architecture in UAE
Iris Mist, Dubai, UAE
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Architects: Atkins

Dubai tower image © from Atkins
Weve become accustomed to the shapes of buildings doing all
manner of things and Iris Mist is doing one very visible and wavy
thing. The connection between ocean, waves and a wavy building is
equally obvious and direct and, because of this, more universally
comprehensible than the ocean-boat-porthole-window association familiar
to architects. Even if weve never seen a building shaped like
Iris Mist we could have easily imagined one in fact structural
engineers do all the time. Nevertheless, the feeling remains that
buildings arent supposed to make shapes like this and this makes
Iris Mist ever so slightly surreal.
Dubai tower images © from Atkins
Some of Atkins more recent buildings have floor plates that
rotate or warp, requring the use of stacked inclined columns to transfer
vertical loads. The floor plates of Iris Mist For are relatively constant
in shape and so, for all the curviness of its facades, nearly all
vertical loads can be transferred by the core and two shear walls.
These shear walls protrude past the façade on the lower half
of the east and the upper half of the west elevations where they are
at their most concave. They do enhance the transfer of vertical loads
but their contribution to visual stability is equally crucial by providing
vertical lines of reference against which the ebb and flow of the
façade can be gauged. Instead of arbitrary distortion the building
has rhythmic movement.
Iris Mist is configured as a 6-storey podium and 49-storey tower but
deviates from type in that the 200m tower springs from ground level
with apartments beginning from as low as the second floor, above the
double-height entrance lobby. What appears to be a five-storey retail
and apartment building on one side of this lobby and a seven-storey
office building on the other is actually the periphery of seven levels
of car parking. The façades of this podium follow the same
logic as the tower above but the overriding metaphor has the waves
of the ocean rocking the horizontal podium which in turn makes the
tower wave in sympathetic motion.
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