Dubai: Enrico Dini said that the biggest project of his life is — The Leaf — to green the desert in the Gulf.
He said that it is an infrastructure project that he invented and patented and which aims to reclaim a huge portion of land by a process and method of permanent greening by the reclamation of arid soil and by the creation of an artificial water table.
“For that, you need to insulate a portion of land with walls, waterproofing big flowerpots, then pumping water in and laying arid soil on top so that plant roots can access it at all times, and build artificial trees with bendable solar leaves,” he said.
He said the main advantage of this method is the creation of an environment that make pleasant the living outdoors in this environment.
He said the tall trees will have vast interlocking carbon-fibre leaves that will create a kind of canopy that produces energy and reduces water loss through evaporation and thus allows life to flourish on the desert floor for the first time.
“The goal is not reclamation for agricultural purposes, but the creation of a usable by people setting. 3D printing can open up new realms of architectural designs — limited only by human imagination,” he said.
