Masdar City Neighbourhood in Abu Dhabi PDF

Masdar City is a special new neighbourhood in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The designers are creating houses and buildings that are all new. The buildings do not use much energy because they use traditional materials. An example is the mosque. In the UAE, mosques used to be ma...

Masdar City is a special new neighbourhood in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The designers are creating houses and buildings that are all new. The buildings do not use much energy because they use traditional materials. An example is the mosque. In the UAE, mosques used to be made of earth from the ground. We usually build new mosques using stone, but they used the same earth as traditional mosques to build the new Masdar City Mosque. That is because the material keeps the building cool. The mosque also produces all the energy it needs using solar panels which take energy from the sun. The buildings in Masdar City are very close together so that there is not much sun on the pavements. There are no cars and most of the roads are for walkers and bikes. You can also travel on electric buses. Some of them go under the ground! Many school students visit the city on school trips. Teenager Hani Akel,14, told us, 'This is such an exciting project. It's not only creating an amazing new city for people to live in. It's also using green technology that could really change our cities in the 21st century.'