Yas Hotel

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Engineers
schlaich bergermann partner
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Year
2009

Yas Hotel is a five star signature Hotel next to the Formula 1 racetrack on Yas Island. The iconic glazed veil visually connects two buildings located on both sides of the racetrack. Its structural system is a grid shell that consists of the triangulated mega structure and the quadrangular grid. The free flowing grid shell is structurally one piece without any expansion joints and is supported vertically by 10 V-shaped columns. Due to its size and extreme temperature changes, the grid shell must be able to slide under temperature movements. Therefore eight out of ten supports are able to slide in one direction, with the other two acting as fixed supports. Wind loads are transferred to the concrete hotel structure by horizontal struts. It is covered by 5800 pivoting diamond-shaped glass panels and features LED lighting at each node that allow for programmed lighting and image sequences over the whole surface.

Client
ALDAR Properties PJSC
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Architecture
Asymptote Architecture
NY

Structure
sbp

Length
217 m

Width
44 m

Height
35 m

Surface area
17,000 m²

Steel
approx. 2100 t

Number of panels
5,800

Number of rooms
499

Material
rectangular hollow sections and tubes S355J2H; cast steel G20Mn5+QT

Photography
Bjorn Moerman

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