Fay Valley at Fay Hills in Masdar City by Taraf

Master Plan

The Fay Hills master community within Masdar City is the residential planning exercise that most directly expresses the city’s founding philosophy at the scale of a neighbourhood rather than a building or a street. The Fay Hills masterplan organises its villa community around the principles of bioclimatic design, whose application to the layout, orientation, spacing, and landscape of the community creates an outdoor environment of extraordinary daily quality by intelligently managing solar gain, natural ventilation, shade provision, and the thermal comfort of outdoor spaces in ways that conventional villa community planning does not attempt and that most villa communities whose planning has not been informed by these principles do not accidentally achieve.

Fay Valley within the Fay Hills masterplan occupies the landscape position whose valley character gives the community its most distinctive natural spatial identity: the sheltered, the green, the shaded, and the comfortable outdoor environment whose daily quality of life contribution is felt most directly in the early morning walks, the afternoon outdoor family activities, and the evening social occasions that the Fay shade philosophy enables across a significantly broader window of comfortable outdoor temperatures than comparable villa communities whose outdoor design has not benefited from the same depth of bioclimatic intelligence. The masterplan’s cycling network, green corridors, community gathering spaces, and the integration of the Fay Hills residential community with the broader Masdar City infrastructure and services give the Fay Valley address a community completeness that most villa developments in comparable Abu Dhabi corridors are still planning toward while Masdar City has been delivering.