The tower’s twisting shape is designed for enhanced indoor comfort. Its twist generates self-shading for the tower, ensuring that many of the interior spaces are protected from solar exposure. The building’s exterior terraces and the façade’s metal cladding panels, high-performance glass, and deep sills around the recessed glass line further protect the building from direct solar radiation, while providing diffuse daylight to interior spaces. This enhanced design for solar control reduces the building’s demand for cooling, provides a thermally comfortable environment, and minimizes the risk of glare, while optimizing occupant views of the surrounding marina environment and gulf.
The tower’s HVAC system has been specially designed to deal with desert conditions. A central dedicated outside air system equipped with sand filters and heat pipes distributes fresh air across the tower. Fan coil units within the occupied space satisfy the cooling load while providing additional local filtering to reduce the level of fine particles entering through the façade.