Crystal Island, the city within a city. Coming to Moscow

It will be as big as a city, yet it continues to call the building. Maybe it will be entirely enclosed in a wrap in a spiral shape made with criteria environmental sustainabilityThat can minimize heat loss, cold winters in Moscow significant. The Crystal IslandDesigned by Foster, rise in 2013 not far from the Kremlin, with its total area of ??2.5 million square metersWill be the world’s largest sustainable building. Welcome residences, hotels, shops, museums, cinemas and theaters may be defined for all purposes a city within a city.

The air-conditioning systems used, will be powered by RES as sun and wind, through solar panels and wind turbines and in the summer, ‘shell openingTransparent to the light to pass, will allow the natural ventilation that will ensure a reduction of artificial cooling systems.

Category : Architecture