Modular Facade of office building the HUB-1, at Karle Town Centre in Bangalore, India. Creating an efficient building facade, that beat the heat without breaking the developer’s budget. Architect Merge Studio, a New York based – who also design a public space and landscape design of the HUB-1.
Innovative Modular Facade of HUB Office Buildings.
As per designer; Office building modular facade make perforate as well as look appealing with their context. Work profoundly as a green building and create environment friendly building.
Despite financial constraints dictated by India’s competitive development market, Merge delivered, designing a modular facade with metal and glass “waves” that cut solar gain while allowing light and air to penetrate the interior.
In this Indian climate, the maximum impact in terms of heat loads happens through direct radiation, as opposed to conductive heat transfers, which meant that the shading aspect was most important.
Modular Facade Design Fact File:
- Facade Manufacturer: SP Fab.
- Architects: Merge Studio.
- Facade Installer: SP Fab.
- Facade Consultant: Environmental Design Solutions (New Delhi, sustainability consultant.)
- Location: Bangalore, India.
- Date of Completion: 2015
- System: prefabricated modules comprising curved aluminum composite panels and high performance glazing.
- Products: Alubond aluminum composite panels, St. Gobain India glazing.
To lower costs, the architects came up with the idea of a modular, self-shading system in which successive “waves,” oriented vertically, shade adjacent glazing. They also streamlined construction through a combination of a minimal material palette and off-site prefabrication.
Though Merge had to special-order 1.5-meter Alubond panels, “everything else was fairly simple,” said Kohli. “We made sure that there’s no glazing where the aluminum panels curve.”
Mumbai’s SP Fab manufactured and installed the facade, splitting each “wave” into three prefabricated pieces that were then trucked to the site and hooked on.
Modular Facade System Design Brief:
- HUB-1’s modular facade glazing was carefully plotted according to the solar studies, with windows decreasing in size on the tower’s upper levels.
- Reduced the window-to-wall ratio on the east- and west-facing sides of the building.
- Selected double-glazed windows with a low-e coating from St. Gobain India.
- It was a careful selection of facade performance strategies.
- Ventilation is provided by operable vertical slot windows between the crest of each “wave” and the adjacent panel.
Studies showed that modular facade would be able to grab more air through those because of turbulence as it moves around the surface.
- save energy in the range of 15-16 percent due to the modular facade alone.
- After completing of project, targeting LEED Gold certification.
Architect noted the self-shading system’s potential, given a different set of circumstances. When we first started developing this. We had enough variables that we could really manipulate the modular facade in response to the environment.
The curves could be larger or smaller, and other variables.
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