Dubai Emirates Towers Metro Station
During the design and construction of the metro the injected metro station to the urban design forced to take place on the setbacks of the building , and this made the stations very close to the towers and created a negative space in between .
Figure 1 : Emirates Towers Metro Station
As can be seen in Figure 2 , the metro station is completely shaded by high skyscrapers that cast its shadow on the station and block natural light . The huge structure of the metro station and the rail blocks the natural wind flow in on UAE that comes from the North West direction as shown in the figure , specially that the street area between the two rows of skyscrapers on sheikh zayed road creates a negative area that is hardly ventilated as shown in figure 2 . All these factors results in a dull , unventilated negative space under the station and rail . And between the station and building , and for the occupants that lives in the lower floors of the tower . When metro passes on the rail it produces noise and vibration that interrupts the comfort of the users and occupants in that area causing noise pollution , distraction & headache .
Figure 2 : Sun Path . Source : Plan of Sheikh Zayed Road by RTA
Thermal comfort through biomimicry in the case of Emirates Towers Metro Station in Dubai 637