The programme projects out in most directions allowing specific views of Saatyat Island. The views each protrusion frames is appropriate to the activity that will occur in that part of the building. The museum of Satyaat Island looks out over the freeway so one can survey the new Zaha, Nouvel and Gehry bulidings to the northwest and the Tadao Ando Maritime Museum to the South East. The Real Estate offices give select views over what will be the residential part of the island, while the restaurant at the top presents a panorama of the whole island.
The lattice frame work holds the algae farm in flat tanks and contributes structurally to the sinuous forms that contain the more standard programmes. Everybody here agrees that the rigid square frame is holding back the more dynamic and gestural interior.
