Masdar City in Abu Dhabi exemplifies innovative, sustainable architecture within a low-carbon urban environment. The villa designs emphasize a thoughtful interplay between solid mass and carefully crafted openings, reducing heat gain, enhancing privacy, and responding to the local climate. Earthy tones and the use of local materials reflect a commitment to understated elegance and environmental responsibility, while compact footprints support rational planning and efficient construction. Indoor spaces seamlessly extend into exterior gardens, patios, and courtyards, promoting outdoor living and enhancing the overall spatial experience. A clear axial organization balances living and private areas, creating functional, harmonious layouts that integrate sustainability with refined architectural expression.
Fay Hills is planned as a pedestrian-friendly community based on shaded walkways, wadi-like green spaces, and a series of public realm amenities, a community park, and plazas. The project comprises 130 low-rise villas with 4-, 5-, and 6-bedroom stand-alone villas, each well-spaced to ensure maximum privacy and built as practical, workable living spaces for every family member.
The villas are characterized by serene, contemporary volumes, warm, earthy materials, and the interplay of solid walls with openings that manipulate heat gain while providing glimpses to planted courts and gardens. Deep covered patios, cross-ventilated living spaces, and clearly zoned family areas enhance daily comfort and support a lifestyle that moves easily between indoors and outdoors. At the center of the development, a 540sqm clubhouse serves as the primary social anchor. The structure is set into the landscape and includes a green roof that residents can walk on; full-height glazing and operable screens draw a gym, multipurpose lounge, indoor kids’ areas, and changing rooms out to the pool deck beyond, combined with shaded terraces.
The project targets a sustainability rating of Pearl 3, aligning with stringent standards for reduced energy and water use and environmentally responsible materials embedded in the Estidama framework.