Salmaan did four years of research with Buro Happold under an Engineering Doctorate program hosted by Brunel and Surrey University. During this time he developed and tested a novel material structure that can be used to protect buildings from solar and ambient heat, while allowing it to cool at night through atmospheric re-radiation into space.
He then became a Façade Engineer at Buro Happold. For the Abu Dhabi Louvre project, he spent a week in the desert, showing how and why, on clear nights, more dew falls on some materials than others.
Now a member of the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster + Partners, he is thinking about – among other things – what to do with all that water.