Tai-Power Inc. Multi-purpose Building
YEAR
2011 -
LOCATION
Taipei
CLIENT
Taiwan Power Company
SITE AREA
23,785 ㎡
BUILDING AREA
40,105 ㎡
STATUS
Under Construction
TYPOLOGY
CERTIFICATION
EEWH Diamond Candidate Certificate / IGB Silver Candidate Certificate
The site is located next to the Keelung Road overpass and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The project will be completed in 2019. The bottom 1st to 5th floors of the building are electricity substations, and the 6th to 18th floors are designed as office units. The second curtain wall of the building is dominated by green walls and aluminum lattices. The key features of the design are the follows:
- Because the substation on the ground floor is close to the urban pedestrian space, it uses green wall slope corridors to provide a fitness path office staff above 5F, and use the greenery to decorate the building on site, reduce maintenance and manageable green walls, thus providing different urban landscapes and promote the concept of vertical farming.
- The outer wall of the upper office provides a double wall system of the building shell for natural ventilation in autumn and winter and increase the isolation of heat radiation and road noise. This is a model of problem solving using green design strategies. (The firm collaborate with department of architecture of NTUST to develop a strategy for combining the design of the air-conditioning energy-saving mode to provide a double-wall system of the building shell a strategy to solve problems and green design.
Materials and construction methods
The bottom green curtain wall system is fixed in the second layer curtain wall system with movable and replaceable planting units. A net is set up inside the outer layer, and the maintenance trail is used for watering and vascular planting units along the slope. It wish to established feasibility of urban vertical greening under Taiwanese climate.
The aluminum curtain wall system above 5F is fixed to the outside of the maintenance balcony by several repeated aluminum extrusion and glass systems with different units. These extrusions are also used for shading and sound insulation. Its openings and ventilation and heat dissipation methods are derived from simulation analysis to obtain ventilation strategies.