Green Building Trends: Europe by Jerry Yudelson

Author:Jerry Yudelson [Yudelson, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Architecture, General
ISBN: 9781610911344
Google: pZw41a4RQSUC
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-07-16T23:41:52.694520+00:00

RWE TOWER, ESSEN10

Designed by Ingenhoven Architekten, the RWE building is 535 feet tall, the tallest structure in this part of Germany and is round in plan view, with thirty stories rising from a one-story pedestal. Mechanical equipment is located halfway up the building, so it’s not necessary to fix things on the roof. As a round building, it has the smallest amount of skin for the volume enclosed.

The building was the first-high rise in Germany designed in a wind tunnel. Ventilation flaps at the bottom help relieve pressure differences between inside and outside, making it easy to open windows and doors. With operable windows, there is also a sunscreen to protect occupants from unwanted solar exposure.

There is a double-glass façade with a 20-inch (50-centimeter) space between the two glass walls to allow for a ventilation corridor and solar protection screens. Air from the outside passes through to the inside without causing drafts. The building is naturally ventilated about 70 percent of the time.

Above the entrance to the building, on the south, there are about 19 kilowatts of building-integrated photovoltaics with single-crystal photovoltaic cells. The building features night flush ventilation, use of the building envelope for thermal storage and cool energy transmission, and daylighting of 70 percent of the floor area on average.

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