KAPSARC is an independent nonprofit research center in Saudi Arabia focused on energy economics, policy, technology, and the environment. It has a multinational research team studying issues like global energy markets and carbon management. The architectural vision for KAPSARC's building features an organic crystalline structure rising from the desert landscape with a protective shell and soft interior courtyards. Renderings, models, and construction status images of the building are also shown. The architect, Zaha Hadid, was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and is known for her futuristic curved forms evoking modern life.

1. KAPSARC
The King Abdullah Petroleum
Studies and Research Center

2. About KAPSARC
• The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center
(KAPSARC) is an independent non-profit institution that focuses on
research in energy economics, policy, technology, and the
environment. Its research areas include global energy markets and
economics, energy efficiency and productivity, energy and
environmental technologies, and carbon management. It has a
multi-national research team.

3. Vision
• The architectural vision for a
center focused on technical and
environmental concerns
endeavors to create an organic
form - a structure capable of
continual expansion and
transformation - rising as a
cellular structure of crystalline
forms from the desert landscape -
a strong protective outer shell
concealing soft, porous sheltered
courtyards within.

4. Renderings
Model

5. Inner spaces

6. Prayer room

7. Construction status

8. About the Architect
• Dame Zaha Mohammad
Hadid, DBE (Arabic: ‫حديد‬ ‫زها‬ Zahā adīdḤ ;
born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-
British architect. She received the Pritzker
Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman
to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and
2011. Her buildings are
distinctively futuristic, characterized by the
"powerful, curving forms of her elongated
structures" with "multiple perspective points
and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos
of modern life".

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