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Tower Components Figure 3b. Slots through Nakheel Tower allow wind to pass through 06 40 years of the CTBUH: 'High Rises: Social Living ' 16 | Nakheel Harbour & Tower CTBUH Journal | 2009 Issue II CTBUH Journal | 2009 Issue II Nakheel Harbour & Tower | 17 Publications Jan Klerks 53 Diary What's coming up? Condenser Typology: open envelope vertical 26 farming, the extremes of tower urbanism 10 Global News "In a hybrid vertical farm, harvests would Highlights from the CTBUH inevitably cause ‘delirium’, as crops, people, and services would necessitate a 24-hour cycle global news archive CTBUH of events" Rem Koolhaas, (1994). Delirious New York. NY. Monacelli. Matthew Wilson Can humidity-harvesting experiments inform tower urbanism in arid coastal environments? Author The finding of this study includes how the ‘Condenser’ tower typology deviates from other Matthew Wilson methods of vertical farming, climate control, and tower urbanism for the Dubai region. It Vectorfield.org includes an overview of the Condenser’s rationale, precedence, technical workings, Figure 1. Condensation Graph - Relative Humidity , Dubai, 1st Floor United Arab Emirates 364 Garratt Lane organization, incentives, and limitations. London, SW18 4ES, UK t: +44 077 9465 1691 e: [email protected] Foundations homes and workplaces are constructed as Project Overview ‘keno-urban’ tower typology (Dear, 2000). Its uninhabited masonry tower on a hill in rural hermetic boxes of synthetic materials that are uncertainty of events derogates from modern France, called Knapen’s air well (Nelson, 2003). Order, control, and purity are key attributes of This study introduces the Condenser tower 50 Fire & Safety Working Group Matthew Wilson sealed and controlled by oversized ducts and aspirations and moves towards a postmodern Knapen built the large-scale masonry structure the utopian socialist projects of the modern typology and an uncommon vertical Matthew is an independent researcher living and era. From within these modern visions, many advanced mechanical systems. To exacerbate eco-tourism that is specific to Dubai’s arid utopianism. as a labyrinth of internalized cavities. He was working in London. He is currently researching the keen on combining wind flows, diurnal extremes of sustainability focusing on environmental academics have argued that ‘high-technology’ the issue, some academics are promoting the coastal environment. As one of Dubai’s sociology, utopianism, and social ecology. use of hyper-elite and advanced mechanical temperature variations, and the structure’s will conquer nature to save us from impending contemporary modes of urbanism, the Humidity Harvesting Precedence Inaugural meeting report doom. These anthropomorphically centered technologies to germinate plants in closed- ecologic tower could enhance the city’s green thermal mass to trap and condense Case Study desires have led us away from working with loop environments. Their manifestos depict credentials (Yeang 2008). The rationale for this Humidity harvesting can be traced into the atmospheric vapors (see Figure 2). Although natural resources and into unfamiliar worlds towers as space ships that produce food for project is that the tower’s inherent nature is to depths of antiquity. Literature cites a wide, he anticipated his air well to collect 90L (23.7 (McHarg, 1992). The common side effects are the entire city. Paradoxically, their proposals ‘condense’ development. As it does so, it gains geographical gamut of these experiments, Gal) of water per meter of its surface per night, feelings of alienation from the natural imply that humankind should seek subsistence more access to greater amounts of sunlight taking place in various regions of the world the well’s 3.7m (12ft) height and 2.7m (9 ft) environment, and detachment from the city in detached environments to deter an and fresh air than any other building type.