MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard.
Located in Dubai's design district, the Barjeel ? or wind tower ? installation adopts a more traditional approach to air-conditioning than the electrical methods used in the surrounding high-rises.
Carved from layers of recycled cardboard and sheets of aluminium, the six-metre-tall structure was designed as a modern take on the wind towers found in the Arabian Gulf.

As Miskavi explained, the studio chose recycled cardboard not only for its sustainable qualities, but also for it's strong yet lightweight properties, as the structure had to be pre-fabricated in Turkey and shipped to Dubai. The structure is fixed in place through gravity and compression, with no adhesive used to secure the layers together.

Between every 90 or so layers of cardboard is an aluminium sheet, while four aluminium posts penetrate the structure at each corner and attach to a metal base ? which Miskavi describes as a "skewer-like" system.
Both the cardboard and aluminium has been left untreated, to keep the installation as organic as possible.
According to Miskavi, the corrugated design of the cardboard also grants the installation a "transparency" and "openness" by allowing some light into the structure. When rotated 90 degrees however, the material becomes solid and opaque....