Lecture's IaaC - Chris Wan - Masdar, Zero Carbon City

Where: IAAC,c/Pujades 102 , Poble Nou
Date: Friday  the 3rd of December
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Masdar, Zero Carbon City
Speaker: Chris Wan

Biography

Chris Wan is Manager of City design at Masdar City. Masdar (in Arabic, literally source) is a project inAbu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, Its core is a planned city , which is being built by theAbu DhabiFuture Energy Company,  a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company , with the majority of seed capital provided by the government of Abu Dhabi. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster  +  Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy  sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi , beside Abu Dhabi International Airport. Many international architects will develop projects for Masdar City.

Chris Wan, graduate in the University of Bath, worked among other fro Richard Rogers and Walt Disney Imagineering, Hong Kong, and Sorouh real State, in Abu Dhabi.