Palm Island
Palm Jumeirah is one of the largest artificial islands in the world, located in Dubai, the first series of palm islands in Dubai, famous for its design in the form of a palm tree.The ambitious project was first launched in 2001, where the land reclamation process was used to create a palm Jumeirah, the first luxury residential property to be delivered to its owners by the end of 2006, Palm Jumeirah has been further developed to accommodate the tourist and leisure facilities that make this island a popular destination for tourists from all over the world, connecting a 5.4 km rail link between Palm Jumeirah and the mainland For Dubai.
Structure of the island The island's construction was financed largely from the oil income of Dubai. It is shaped like a palm within a circle. It consists of four main sectors: trunk, central axis, fronds, and crescent. There is another bridge linking the trunk to the central axis, which is narrow, and highlights 17 fronds. The central axis and trunk, with a crescent width of 200 meters, and It has 17 kilometers, was established at least 5.5 square kilometers of new land in all areas within an area with a diameter of about 5 km.
The master plan was developed by Helman Hurley Charvat Peacock, an American architectural firm, and the island was made of sand that was crushed from the Arabian Gulf. The side of the crescent exposed to the open sea was paved with stones and rocks from the mainland, apartments and retail facilities and some hotels are located on the island trunk, and there are some villas scattered heavily on the long fronds, while most hotels and resorts located on the crescent, lived about 10,000 people in the decade Second century of the first century Shereen at Palm Jumeirah.
Construction of the island Construction began in the Palm Islands in 2001, where divers and workers built a crescent barrier in the form of a crescent of mountain rocks, and sand covered with a fabric of anti-corrosion, and permeable to prevent waterproofing, the lower layer in the breakwater, covering the rocks It weighs 907 kilograms of sand, and covers two layers of large rocks of which the cable weighs about 5443 kilograms of construction, and the breakwater has two 100-meter holes on each side to eliminate stagnation in the 16 deep, narrow channels, which allow water to circulate full every 13 days Designers in Nakheel that the breakwater will melt Mi Palm Island from the predominant weather in the Gulf, and even from massive storms, the Palm Islands itself was built from the sand that was drilled from the seabed, where the Palm Jumeirah was created from 3,257,212,970,389 cubic feet of vibro pressed ocean sand, It is a technique that increases the density of loose sand by submerging it with water and vibrating it with sensors
