FLYING CARPET 2من اصل6

creating cozy and welcoming atmosphere. The sides of the market remain open to
ensure maximum accessibility, visibility of the goods on display and to benefit from
natural crossventilation.
The lifted structure itself offers a unique chance to assign additional functions to the
roof and to show its hidden potential. It takes a shape of pixelated Arabic carpet, where
each pixel is a box (1 m x 1 m x 1.5m) in a grid. Pixel-boxes are meant for salesmen to
store their goods. The structure itself eliminates the need in assistance for
constructing and dismantling market stands every time, which means direct savings for
sellers and market authorities. Pixel-boxes can be arranged at different levels thus
becoming movable shop-windows with goods displayed turning into guiding signs for
users Interconnected storage pixel-boxes colored in traditional shades of Arabic
carpet on top and transparent on the sides constitute the roof fabric. Structurally the
roof is a grid (6 m x 6 m) supported by 10 h ydraulic columns that also serve as water
collectors support. The cover of the market is highly flexible thanks to its structure and
offers a completely new landscape: it can be lifted up in the morning forming covered
market place, another moment it can be turned into Khaima for Aid events and at night
disguise itself as open-air theatre. Continuous net of interconnected pixel-boxes that
can move freely along the columns’ height enables the roof to take almost any
whimsical shape Pixel-boxes that constitute the carpet- fabric are composed of
different materials and serve for various functions: PV solar cells, water collection,
movable display windows, storage containers, etc. Roof colored in the shades of
traditional Arabic carpet mimics its flexibility, multifunctionality and makes the space
eastern fairy-tale come true.