The indoor ski slope answers the desire in hot desert regions for more diversified seasons, including a cool snow environment.
Conceived as a sports-driven venue, it provides an environment for the active lifestyle of visitors. The large-scale solar plant proves the technological availability of renewable energy sources for large-scale developments. It will be the longest indoors now slope in the world – six and a half times longer than Ski Dubai. And the ski dome will be the world’s largest sustainable building, second in volume only to the Everett factory of Boeing.
The ski resort embraces the strongest of contrasts: desert meets ice, solar power generates snow, fire touches water, tradition versus innovation and combines these polar opposites into a unique architectural proposal.
It offers a total skiable distance of 5 km with slopes for beginners and experts. Ski pistes comfortably accommodate 2.400 users at one time, on about 270.000m2 of skiing surface.
A quasi-outdoor atmosphere in a high tech building has been created. Light entering the building is filtered and diffused through a series of membranes. A changing artificial sky with a serene, light and ephemeral atmosphere enhances the indoor experience and disguises the technological nature of the environment. The boundaries between roof, wall and ceiling disappear as they would in nature. This is man and nature creating something extraordinary.
