Sustainable energy building: It incorporates several natural factors for sustainability. The presented design will allow the building to harvest wind energy through an opening at the top and integrated wind turbines. The wind funnels will be used to produce energy from predominant air currents. The design of the building presents sustainability gains at its core (Kibert 25).
Energy generation techniques: The design capitalizes on Indonesia’s extensive familiarity with geothermal energy, leverage the neighboring campus as a reserve for generating and conserving energy, and shaping the building itself to focus ambient wind into the wind turbines integrated into the building. It takes advantage of the predominant winds and increased wind speed at the top section of the building.
Energy consumption: It converses energy through the use of curved façade to mitigate the problems of solar heat gain. Furthermore, the outer section of the building will be glazed and will gently lean towards the top to border the opening of the wind funnel. It will allow natural light through the solar shades on the curved façade to mitigate the problems of solar heat gain (Besjak et al. 34).
Social benefits: The building will be a model for efficiency, sustainability and a collective workplace design. Its sustainability, nature will highly reduce carbon footprint within the society, thereby encouraging safe and green developments. Also, it will be fitted with exterior solar shades to significantly enhance the workplace environment while saving energy through minimizing the need artificial lighting.
Works Cited
Besjak, Charles, et al. "New Heights in Sustainability—Pertamina Energy Tower." Structures Congress 2015.
Kibert, Charles J. Sustainable construction: green building design and delivery. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
