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Foster
sented
by: Imge Yaman;
Ece Akkoyunlu; Hassan Sobhy; Denis Gachev
Design
Londons first
environmentally
sustainable tall building
stands 180m high and
consists of 40 storeys. The
building consumes about
half the energy of most
skyscrapers this size. The
building gradually widens
at each floor plan until it
reaches the 16th where it
then diminishes until it
reaches its apex
35 km of steel, 10
thousand tons were
used to build the Swiss
Re
24,000 square meters of
glass were used for the
exterior of the building,
equivalent to five
football fields.
360. The top floor is a
circular bar that
overlooks the entire city.
40 floors and 180
meters in height is Swiss
Re, making it the second
highest skyscraper in
London.
76,400 square meters of
Green Building
On each floor, a series of
interstices with 6 pipes made of
natural ventilation system,
functioning as a double glazing.
Pipes used for cooling in the
summer, drawing warm air from
the building, and for heating in
winter. They also allow for
easier entry of light, with a
consequent reduction in the
cost of lighting. The systematic
internal microclimate and
solutions for energy savings
have led to a 50% reduction in
energy consumption in any case
necessary for a building of this
Environmentally, its
aerodynamic form encourages
wind to flow around the
building, minimizing load on
the cladding and structure,
reduces the amount of wind
deflected to the ground
compared with a rectilinear
tower of similar size, helping
to maintain pedestrian
comfort at street level, and
creates external pressure
differentials that are exploited
to drive a unique system of
natural ventilation.
Ventilation
Among the buildings most
distinctive features are its
windows, which open to allow
natural ventilation as well as
the building is air-conditioned
so that for up to 40 percent of
the year many of the
mechanical systems can be
supplemented to reduce
energy consumption. To
facilitate this, fresh air is
drawn through the light wells
that spiral up through the
building, while the
aerodynamic form generates
pressure differentials on the
Plumbing
The building uses an electric heat-tracing system which
provides energy-efficient hot water temperature maintenance,
frost protection and snow melting (Process Heat).
Lighting System
The lightwells allow
daylight to penetrate the
building to a further
distance inside the
building then they would
have had the floor gone
all the way to the
perimeter, helping to
improve the internal
environment
Fire System
The spiral lightwell
arrangement allows for a
fire escape strategy based
on a variation of phased
evacuation. The building
is divided into fire safety
zones. This allows for the
evacuation of one area at
a time as opposed to the
whole building at once. A
system of smoke curtains
form smoke reservoirs in
the lightwells.
Sources:
http://www.slideshare.net/adadarmon/swiss-re-building-london
http://www.victorbuyck.be/uploads/projects/doc_14.pdf