Project public library in Ying Yang

Design project Ying Yang public library by evgeny markachev + julia kozlovaDesi in korea / 1st prize winner.

Project public library in Ying Yang

Developed by evgeny markachev + julia kozlova, the public library proposal implents the use of the philosophical ‘yin and yang’ sign as the form driver of the structure, symbolizing two different origins through interaction and complementarity.

perspective Project public library in Ying Yang

The concept obtains not only the shape of the motif, but also spatially divides the space into two opposite functional nodes that complement each other (education and communication). 

Due to the dynamic form the edifice is visually in constant movement, designating the other zones to be harmoniously distributed in the internal areas of the building. 

This feature reflects the modern intensity and information interchange, dynamics of modern life.

perspective Project public library / Ying Yang

The Project public library in Ying Yang won first place in the sustainable design category of the autodesk special prize in the archi-world academy awards for 2011-2013.

site plan of public library

general view

Elevation of public library

1. The place: There is a residential urea in the south-west, a church and public buildings in the east .

2. New boundaries of the site: The shift of the designed boundaries with a view to preserve the existing green zone and the distance bet ern the residential area and the library_ 

Analysis of public library

3. Number of storeys: Construction of the total volume of the 4-storeyed building in accordance with the project height restrictions_ 

4. Two pans: The total volume of the building is divided into two parts by one of the main existing in this territory pedestrian routes.

5. Two functional nodes: The object has the appearance of the symbol and is divided Into two anhpathic by the meaning, but complementing each other functional nodes: -receipt of information -communication spaces 

6. Lowered by one store: Half of the building is lowered by one store y to the level of the dwelling houses along which it is located_ This will provide the sufficient light conditions for the residential constructions and a more harmonious combination of the new building and of the existing one_ 

Analysis of public library

7. Exploitable terraces The opposite faces of the bothparts are lowered in order to create exploitable terraces on the roof that are accesible from the street. 

8. Twisted both parts relatives to each other FoRowingthe concept design not only the internal line forms the contours of the 'Yin and Yang" symbol, the faces are turned with respect to the centre creating the constant movement of the volumes to each other. This completes the formation of the image solution_ 

9. Green areas The terraces are planted; ascents to them are created along the building volumes. Both directions are intersected in the middle forming a common site. The territory in front of the facility is beautified (an area with a reservoir). 

10. Entrance, exits, walking routes Each of the two functional parts has its own entrance. The main entrance from the square from the side of the main road. The upper storeys have exits to the terraces. A new walking direction is formed through the facility by the terraces that passes diagonally between the streets. 

Analysis of public library

.Architectural model of public library / Ying Yang won first place in the sustainable design

Architectural model of public library

interior design of public library

interior design of public library

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ZaHa Hadid Design Bee’ah Headquarters in Sharjah, UAE

ZaHa Hadid Design Bee’ah Headquarters in Sharjah, UAE

 Bee’ah, the Middle East’s leading fully integrated environmental and waste management company has commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to build its new Headquarters Building in Sharjah, UAE, following the 2013 international competition.

ZaHa Hadid Design Bee’ah Headquarters in Sharjah, UAE

The new Headquarters Building is part of Bee’ah’s ongoing work and investment to transform attitudes and behaviours in individuals, communities, businesses and cities by providing the infrastructure, tools and support to achieve their environmental goals. Working towards achieving its Zero-Waste to landfill, cleaner air and water, renewable energy and sustainable future targets, Bee’ah is developing and providing coherent and sustainable environmental solutions to meet the challenges of the community it serves.

Recognizing that awareness and education are essential to achieving its goals, Bee’ah operates the Bee’ah School of Environment (BSOE), which aims to develop a ‘greener future generation’ through environmental learning and approved tools that help children understand their vital role in environmental responsibility. To date, 174,000 children in over 210 schools across the emirate have participated in its ongoing programs. 

Educational facilities and exhibition spaces within the new Headquarters Building will enable Bee’ah to further its community engagement programs and outreach initiatives.

 Bee’ah Headquarters in Sharjah, UAE

With its commitment to the Zero-Waste to landfill target for the emirate of Sharjah, Bee’ah is collaborating with experts around the world to formulate necessary environmental and waste management strategies, develop legislative policies, train and develop staff capabilities, and improve waste treatment and recycling methods by establishing facilities and initiatives to build an integrated social, industrial and economic framework that promotes recycling. By converting material and physical waste into recycled resources that can be re-used by the community, Bee’ah is leading positive environmental change in the Middle East.

Bee’ah’s new Headquarters will enable the company to manage and deliver further advancements in environmental services. These include even greater operational effectiveness of its Waste Management Centre which represents an entirely new approach to managing waste in the region with a number of industrial, commercial and residential waste diversion operations and facilities that include the Material Recovery Facility (the third largest in the world); the Construction & Demolition Waste Recycling Facility; the Tyre Recycling Facility (the first of its kind in the region using an environmentally-friendly cryogenic processes); the Compost Plant which processes organic and green waste into fertilizer; the industrial and wastewater lagoons to process liquid waste; the end-of-life vehicle and metal shredding facility as well as a number of other recycling and material processing facilities.

Interior Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

Bee’ah, as an organisation, is converting waste from being something that is a consumptive byproduct of society to something that can be core to society’s future. This has been achieved by transforming both materials (though recovery and energy generation) and society (via social outreach and educational programs) to create a holistic ecosystem for the future.

The Bee’ah Headquarters Building embodies these principles by providing the company with a administrative centre of sustainable construction of LEED Platinum Certification, with ultra-low carbon and minimal water consumption in operation and minimised material consumption in construction. The new building and site will also be used as a learning resource to demonstrate practical environmental awareness to the wider community.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

Bee’ah aims to set new standards in the UAE through utilising 100% green renewable energy sources to power its new Headquarters and ensuring that the maximum amount of recycled materials recovered from waste are used in its construction.

The Headquarters Building has been designed with environmental considerations woven into every aspect of the design using a hierarchical approach to first limit the need to consume resources; where resources are required - to minimise their consumption; and finally to offset consumption of resources through the harvesting of renewable systems.

Designed in response to its natural environment to provide comfort for its occupants alongside minimising energy and resource consumption, the formal composition of the new Bee’ah Headquarters Building has been informed by its desert context as a series of intersecting dunes orientated to accommodate the prevailing Shamal winds, and developed to ensure the internal spaces are provided with ample high quality daylight and views whilst limiting the quantity of glazing exposed to the harsh sun.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

The 7,000 sq. m. Bee’ah Headquarters is located on a 90,000 sq. m. site adjacent to the Bee’ah Waste Management Centre. The large site enabled the development of the design as an array of dunes within its desert landscape leading to the two central dunes of the Headquarters Building.
The two primary dunes of the Bee’ah Headquarters Building house the public and management section (entrance lobby, auditorium, visitors education centre and gallery, and management offices), and the administrative section (departmental offices and staff café). The two dunes intersect and connect via a central courtyard that forms an ‘oasis’ inside the building - enhancing the natural ventilation and maximising indirect sunlight to the public and administrative spaces within.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

The building systems of the new Headquarters have been developed in conjunction with Atelier Ten to minimise both the energy required for cooling and the need for potable water consumption. In milder months, the façade is operable to allow natural ventilation - minimising the need to provide cooling to the building. When conditioning is required, it will be optimised for energy conservation via the use of ventilation energy recovery - allowing fresh air into the spaces with reduced energy impact, and the waste heat that would normally be rejected from the chillers into the atmosphere is to be harvested to provide free pre-heating of the domestic hot water supplies.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

The exterior finishes of the building have been selected to reflect the sun’s rays and help to further reduce energy consumption by providing a local heat profile that is akin to the natural desert environment rather than the high heat profiles associated with conventional roofing systems.
These active and passive energy approaches are predicted to provide a 30% reduction in energy consumption. All power required for the building will be generated via low and zero carbon sources, principally from the adjacent Bee’ah Waste Management Centre’s conversion of municipal waste (that would otherwise decay in landfill) into energy, together with large arrays of photovoltaic cells incorporated within the site’s landscaping.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

The building’s structure has been developed in conjunction with Buro Happold to minimise material consumption through architectural and structural integration. Individual elements of the building’s structure and skin are of standard orthogonal dimensions, enabling significant portions to be constructed from materials recovered from the local construction and demolition waste streams managed by Bee’ah, minimising demand for new materials.

Bee’ah’s expertise and experience of recovered water recycling for non-potable use has enabled the design to be developed for exceptionally low potable water consumption. Internal fixtures and fittings will be installed to conserve water to exceptional levels. Native or adaptive species of vegetation will be incorporated to minimise the need for irrigation, with recovered and recycled non-potable water being used where irrigation is required and landscaping.

Bee’ah Headquarters - Zaha Hadid

The new Bee’ah Headquarters Building is defined by the same principles that are the foundation of the company’s mission to provide coherent and sustainable environmental solutions to meet the future challenges of the communities its serves; leading by example in creating a work environment for Bee’ah to continue its commitment to provide integrated environmental and waste management services of the highest standards.

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Architectural projects for power - Sustainability in Engineering Projects

 Sustainable Energy in projects the engineering & green buildings

Sustainable Energy

The importance of the use of sustainable energy in projects the engineering of the most important strategic plans and future solutions for development and create a more urban environment sustainability.

Solar Energy

It is the most comprehensive concept of green buildings, and is the main difference between them that sustainability is a number of activities from which to transform the extent of green buildings to specific targets we can on the basis of the buildings to assess sustainability of buildings also minimize the impact of the built environment on the natural environment and improve the effectiveness of the building to ensure the life of high quality for future generations.

green-buildings

The goals of sustainable buildings as follows:

-Use all the resources of energy, water and materials effectively and reduce waste

-Protect Nature which is the source of each resource.

-Creating Environmental architecture, health, built for future generations.

-Design Highly efficient buildings and by the balance between performance and the environment and resources and focus on the total cost of the life of the building.

Sustainable buildings

Sustainable buildings axes:-
- Location and earth, Innovation and Design, Department of Energy, Water and the management's WHO, Materials Management and Waste,  Indoor environmental quality.

Green building:-

Green building is a design that reduces the negative impact of humans on the nature of the materials and resources around, in addition to the prevailing systems in nature.

Green buildings in harmony with the environment and reduce the use of energy by recycling the energy of buildings

Green building

It is those buildings that are designed to environmental considerations into each stage of construction, design, implementation, operation and maintenance.

The main considerations are taken into account the design of the spaces and the efficiency of energy and water, and efficient use of resources, and indoor environmental quality of the building, and the impact of the building on the environment as a whole.

The main difference between green buildings and traditional buildings is the concept of integration, where the multi-disciplinary team of specialists in the construction work together since before the design phase to the post-housing properties to improve the environmental sustainability of the building and improve the performance and cost savings.

Construction costs are low and low operating costs and comfort available internal environment better health, in addition to lower maintenance costs and a longer lifespan

Green Building in China  (Hong Kong)

Green Building in China  (Hong Kong)

An example of sustainable buildings and green buildings:-

- Architectural project energy exchange in Korea:

Gwangju-Jeonnam inno city - Korea Power Exchange

 Korea Power Exchange

view of Korea Power Exchange

Sustainable buildings in skyscrapers

Sustainable buildings in skyscrapers

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Islam Fikry Abbas in design Space Race Museum

Space Race Museum

Main prepective

The main concept of Space Race Museum project is to use architectural forms and spatial differentiation to 

represent the technological and political situation during those years. The organic forms are designed to make the visitors experience a sense of loss and continuity where ceilings and floors are one continous entity. The museum is also an environmentally conscious design that incorporates photovoltaic cells, wind turbines, and water recollection systems. The landscape is carefully integrated to the museum to create a single harmonious structure. 

Prepective

The structure will be an apt image, describing the race to triumph over the last frontier between the Soviet Union and United States of America.

Elevation

Sections

The design of the whole museum is exceptional as there is no clear demarcation between the ceiling and floors. They have been made to exist as a single and continuous body. Space Race Museum is eco-friendly and makes good use of wind turbines, photovoltaic cells and water recollection systems. Incorporation of such green features will help save our beautiful surrounding from the clutches of deterioration. The museum blends with its backdrop flawlessly, giving birth to a pleasant construction that exudes a wave of serenity.

Ground floor

1St Floor Plan Of  Museum

source : evolo

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Agung Sedayu Center / KuiperCompagnons - International Business Times

Rotterdam based KuiperCompagnons has recently won first prize in the design competition for the sustainable office building Agung Sedayu Center in Jakarta. Further images of their winning design as well as a description from the architects can be seen after the break.

In January this year the Agung Sedayu Group together with Indonesian Architecture Institute (IAI), one of the largest property developers in retail, commercial facilities and housing inIndonesia, launched a prestigious design competition for a new office building in Jakarta. The design had to result in a sustainable, contemporary building inspired by Indonesian tradition culture.

The program of the office is much bigger than the location. An idea is born from the chine’s shape: ‘yin and yang’ which the floors of the buildings twist and rotate outwards step-by-step to a central core with elevator shafts and main staircases. Both towers are connected by an open common space with commercial facilities on de ground floor, 6 parking floors which 3 of it are underground, and also integrated garden on the 4th floor. The 90.000 m2 building is completely  earthquake- and tsunami proof.

One of the most important sustainable principles is the maximal use of natural ventilation in order to reduce the use of mechanical cooling. The whole form and detail of the building is aimed to avoid direct sunlight to the facade, and to take advantage of the prevailing wind direction. The facade of the building is dictated by the wind and the sun. By using of sun diagrams, the type of louvered door could be determined for the whole year (which one from the 7 types and for which part of the building). Rainwater is collected and reused, solar panels are placed on the horizontal roof, and the therefore appropriated terrace floors. A geothermal heat pump is applied. ‘District Cooling’ is used to improve the benefit of the cool system.

KuiperCompagnons was inspired in shape and facade of the building by traditional Indonesian ‘rattan basket’, which has a double meaning: on the one hand the basket symbolizes a place to come together, but on the other side it symbolizes also the Indonesian handicrafts. The material of the facade is made from local wood, which is applied in the louvers. The Diagonal grid of the supporting structure remind this to the characteristic of the braided rattan structure. Combined with a strategic position direct under the flight path of Soekarno Hatta International AirportJakarta is Agung Sedayu Center an icon of Indonesian architecture and a landmark of the city.

The jury, consisting of 4 members of the Indonesian Architecture Institute and four executives of the Agung, Sedayu Group has recently presented the jury report. From all of the 190 participants, the first prize is awarded to 3 design agencies: KuiperCompagnons, Sardjono Sani from Singapore and Franky Du Ville from Jakarta. In the coming weeks will decide which design will be realized.

LINK SUBJECT : http://www.archdaily.com/142959/agung-sedayu-center-kuipercompagnons 

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