Eco Factor: Sustainable research building with passive and active photovoltaic systems.
SHoP Architects has been awarded the first prize for their design of the Botswana Innovation Hub, a 270,000-sqf office and research building that will be composed of state of the art laboratory spaces for technology-drive and knowledge-intensive foreign and local businesses. The complex will feature some of the most advanced sustainable technologies, including the architects’ “energy-blanket” roofscape.
The roofscape will include systems that will combine passive and active systems. Large overhangs will passively shade the building reducing any unnecessary heat gain to reduce energy consumption. Moreover, mechanisms to collect and reuse water and both passive and active photovoltaic systems to harness renewable solar energy will also be included.
Via: Arch Daily
