In "Masdar City," a climate-neutral desert city in Abu Dhabi, more than 90,000 people were to live and work by 2030. Through special architecture, the choice of building materials, its own scientific research and energy generation, the city should conserve resources to meet the demands of the future.
The great visionaries of the region want to continue here what has been happening in Abu Dhabi for over 50 years - progress.

In 2019 one still far from all this. About 400 students live in the 13 completed buildings. Another 2000 people commute to work in Masdar City every day. The city area is just half a square kilometer.

The series is a portrait of a grand vision of the future, in which sustainability is above all a good figurehead of high importance for the international perception of the emirate, but many other aspects of a sustainable and livable city fall by the wayside.