This is how urbanism should be done in Abu Dhabi. The towers create space around, and routes between, themselves in the same way that the 'arish huts did - an informal approach to the Fort across open sand, as noted by Wilfred Thesiger in Arabian Sands.
The movement patterns of people and vehicles, seemingly determined purely by function, resembled the stochastic patterns of water movement documented by Benjamin S. White and Bengt Fornberg in their article On the chance of freak waves at sea.
thomas
deckker
architect