Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, when it opens later this year will be the world’s largest indoor theme park with over 20 attractions including the world’s fastest roller coaster - accelerating riders from 0 to 60mph in just 2 seconds! As close to the performance of a Ferrari formula 1 car as most of us will ever get!
This amazing building spans over 200,000m2 with the exterior taking its design cues from the classic double curvature of Ferrari GT cars. The interior covers over 86,000m2 (or 13 full size football pitches!). The 'fins' are mounted to every internal facade and represent cooling fins on an engine. They vary in size from 5m to over 20m.
The fin design is completely unique and each of the 2063 fins is different. They are constructed from extruded aluminium from Hydro Aluminium Extrusion UK which is formed, painted and clad in a tensioned silicon coated glass cloth.
Over 100km of extruded aluminum from Hydro, 50km of extruded plastic and 45,000m2 of fabric has been used in their manufacture - making this the largest internal tensile installation in the World!
Superb in house design expertise were combined with local specialists knowledge in order to realise the architects vision. New techniques and processes were developed and local suppliers and specialist subcontractors were used wherever possible. Without their hard work and dedication the project would not have been possible.