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Serving as both a private house and a public exhibition and cultural space, the building expresses the clients’ commitment to green design. Innovative features include a downdraft vertical shaft (‘wind chimney’) to provide cooling. The shallow floor plan, combined with openings at both sides of the gallery areas, allows natural cross-ventilation. Bathrooms have voids to the sky with louvres overhead, offering an ‘open-air’ showering experience. Openings and windows are protected from intense solar radiation by sun shades or concrete hoods. A turf ramp from the first-floor balcony to ground level creates a direct connection between interior and exterior. The landscaping incorporates indigenous vegetation and principles of low water consumption. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Ganendra Art House

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The retail-and-office complex is located in Putrajaya, the new city that is Malaysia’s federal administrative centre.&nbsp;The client requested structural and architectural innovation within an ecological context on a prestigious site; the building structures are concrete and sustainable timber.&nbsp;The exteriors of the four double-skin 14- and 8-storey buildings are faceted to temper sunlight; the cavity between the two glass façades provides natural ventilation.&nbsp;"Ecostructure" or intense landscaping is integral to the project: along the central public promenade which connects the buildings, as vertical landscaping on the upper floors which are connected by "veranda-ways", as cantilevered, planted balconies that punctuate the façade, and in the main entrance atrium that is conceived as a vertical green wall. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Suasana Putrajaya 2C5

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This huge semi-enclosed canopy creates a sense of place in Kuala Lumpur's main shopping district. A steel tube structure supports a polycarbonate roof that is arranged in overlapping layers to shade and naturally ventilate the plaza below. The plaza itself is planted with tropical shade trees that mimic the effect of the rainforest and introduce vegetation into an otherwise barren, dense urban environment. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Bukit Bintang Park Roof Canopy

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India

This eco-masterplan for a middle-class suburb accommodates luxury villas, low- and high-rise condominiums, retail hub, urban centre, infrastructure and open space. It involves four colour-coded strands of thinking. The ‘green’ eco-infrastructure concerns open spaces which occupy 18% of the site, weaving across bridges and through tunnels to maximise connectivity and biodiversity. The ‘red’ eco-infrastructure concerns the human community, who enjoy enhanced access to green areas, buildings in harmony with Vashtu Shastra principles, and an average 7 minutes’ walk from residences to amenities. The ‘grey’ eco-infrastructure involves clean technologies such as low-energy/passive building designs. The ‘blue’ eco-infrastructure is the sustainable water management system. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Soma Masterplan

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Singapore

Instead of replacing natural habitat with a built environment, this research and development facility combines a maximum amount of habitable green spaces with a sustainable building. Its two towers are connected through an atrium whose ‘rain-check’ wall, comprising glazing panels separated by perforated panels, allows passive cross-ventilation while keeping out the rain. A light shaft cut through the taller tower increases daylight penetration. A 1.5-kilometre-long landscaped ramp snakes around the building from the ground plane to the planted terraces and roof gardens, its overhangs and shade plants helping to cool the facade. Harvested rainwater is used for irrigation. Analysis of the local solar path determined the form of the extensive sun-shading louvres. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Solaris

DiGi TOC consumes some 30% less energy than the average data centre. The main office and circulation spaces are fully glazed for maximum daylight penetration, while shading devices limit direct heat gain and thus reduce cooling loads. A continuous green wall around the building’s facade increases the biodiversity of the previously devastated site. A living art installation, this ‘vegetated skin’ also acts as a biological air filter and dampens external noise. Energy-saving variable-speed pumps are installed for air-conditioning, cold water and exhaust systems. Green materials include low-VOC paints, adhesives and carpets and recycled, environmentally friendly plasterboard wall and ceiling linings. Further green measures include photovoltaic panels and rainwater harvesting. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

DIGI Technical Operations Centre

A 24-storey tower linked by a curvilinear bridge to a two-storey restaurant block. The plan is based on a square, with the service cores as added appendages on two sides. A series of planter boxes are introduced into the interior as vertical landscaping. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

TTDI Plaza

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A twenty-two storey office tower aimed at an appropriate, climatically responsive form for tropical high-rise buildings. The main design feature is an external atrium which acts as a traditional space with stepped back terraces. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Plaza Atrium

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Government offices including exhibition spaces, library, conference centre, and two squash courts. The building is based on the layout of the traditional istana (sultan's palace). It consists of narrow plan structures linked by verandahs. Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture

Ibu Pejabat Kesadar

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The new commercial and office facility incorporates the existing facades of an earlier block of urban shops. The design considers the block's relationship with the street and with the streetscape. The precinct here serves as a commercial link between the slightly older banking district and the recent intensively developped Golden triangle area" of Jalan Sultan Ismail.

Warisan MBf Building

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