green energy
ZERO energy building
architecture & landscape
New
District, Wuxi – Jiangsu Province / P.R. China
"Green Zero-Energy Building"
Office, Recreation & Production
Headquarters of Suntech Solar Power System CO Ltd.
60.000 m2
Realization 2006 - 2009
The Green Zero Energy Building – in China also called
"The ECO
Building" – is the new corporate Headquarters from Suntech
Ltd. in Wuxi.
The new production hall is attached to the existing one. With its four floors the new hall form a compact structure.
2. Head:
The office building and the recreation center are built out of single
storey organic stratums, which grow out of the new production hall in
the south. The plan of each stratum, each floor, depends on different
requirements concerning structure and surface of the offices, different
needs of light as well as on the recreation program.
3. Skin:
The head with its kind of floating rooms cannot exist without any additional
energy regulating measures. Therefore, it is surrounded by an „oxygen
mask“. This additional cover made of glass surrounds both, the office
building and the recreation center, and uses to full capacity the maximum
volume of the building site.
A second skin (green skin) covers the building: In the south a large solarpower station collects the energy from the sun. In 2009 it was the largest on-grid photovoltaic facade worldwide.
Possible Extension
(white) - Production (red + pink) ) - Office (blue + grey)
Section
of Green Zero-Energy Building
Suntech - © transbanana & partner
...................................................................... .... ..Source: Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd.
© transbanana & partner - Margarethe
Mueller & Walter Kletzl
in Cooperation with Wolfgang Wieser and Mario Buchegger
