The DLF Building , Gurgaon

Take a look at the 'DLF' building located in Gurgaon, India that uses Sun-Ban Reflective Solar Control Glass that is energy efficient and the coating imparts a “mirror-like” appearance to Reflectasol, giving it visual appeal.

 DLF Building in Gurgaon uses Reflective Glass 

Sun Ban Reflective glass reflects a large proportion of incoming solar radiation, thereby restricting heat penetration into the building. 

 

Reflective Solar control glass has been carefully designed to meet the twin requirements of architects - the functional and the aesthetic. 

The glass reflects the right quantity of sunlight so as to limit glare, while allowing adequate amount of natural light. Thus, the need for artificial lights as well as air conditioners is significantly reduced.

 

Reflective glass is energy efficient, and has high durability. Online coated glass, with high resistance towards surface abrasion undergoes minimal wear and tear.

 

 DLF Building 5

This reflective solar control glass is best suited for buildings in geographies with tropical climate, where solar heat needs to be controlled in order to keep interiors cool.

 

DLF Building, Gurgaon

This reflective glass can be tempered and combined with many other products from the Saint-Gobain Glass range to prevent heat loss, cut out noise, or even stay clean by itself.

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Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Kamuela, Hawaii

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Conceived as a high school science building dedicated to the study of alternative energy, the new Energy Lab at Hawaii Preparatory Academy functions as a zero-net-energy, fully sustainable building. The project’s fundamental goal is that of educating the next generation of students in the understanding of environmentally conscious, sustainable living systems. The project targets LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certification. Recently completed in January 2010, the Energy Lab today strives as a living laboratory, furthering its educational goals as a functioning example of sustainability.

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The Energy Lab was developed in response to the science curriculum it houses. From small project rooms, to a large research center, to a laboratory, spaces were designed to encourage student discovery, exploration and experimentation. The building’s configuration facilitates scientific study both indoors and out, linking interior spaces with the surrounding landscape. Students are surrounded by the systems that they study, and constantly reminded of their methods. Hawaii Prep’s Energy Lab offers a continuous sustainable ‘teaching moment’.

The building is a LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge candidate. It attempts two exceptionally strict building programs, the latter applying material restrictions and point-of-manufacture radius limits. The building generates all power from photovoltaic and windmill sources. It presently uses only eight percent of the energy it produces, the remainder being net-metered back into the campus grid. The building captures and filters all of its own drinking and wastewater, and generates hot water from solar thermal panels. The building is entirely naturally ventilated, and employs an experimental radiant cooling system as an alternative to air conditioning. There are many other green features but perhaps the greatest sustainable contribution is the building’s alternative energy educational mission where students actively learn from the built environment that surrounds them. 

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Day lighting, Sun Shading & Views: Polycarbonate skylights, wood sun screens, and interior roller shades all work together to introduce, reflect and control natural day light. These components were strategically employed to satisfy foot candle minimums, tackle glare, and enhance views, resulting in a pleasantly lit interior environment.

Natural Ventilation: The building is entirely naturally ventilated. Building automated louvers maintain temperature and relative humidity levels to maintain interior comfort. If necessary exhaust fans are activated to induce airflow.

Experimental Radiant Cooling System: As an alternative to conventional air conditioning, a radiant cooling system was designed. At night water is circulated through thermal roof panels, cooled via lower evening temperatures, and then stored in a below-grade tank for use as a chilled water for air handling units during warm afternoons.

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Contemporary Eco-Architecture House in Osaka

Contemporary concrete design meets Eco-Friendly ideas. This design by architects Suga Atelier allows maximum light and wind to enter the building. Recycled and reused materials like plywood and plastic bottles have been used in building walls and unique floorings.

  

Located on a triangular site that is surrounded by roads, House S eschews typical windows and instead features a narrow glass wall recessed into one corner and a glazed atrium that extends down through the center of all three floors.

Rain falling through the nine-sided roof void passes two doughnut-shaped benches and drains into a sunken basin at the lowest level, although canopies can also be folded across the floors for shelter.

 The house’s concrete walls were formed against plywood, which has been reused to create internal walls, kitchen worktops and the floor of the second storey loft.

 Floors and walls elsewhere in the house are lined with white plastic panels made from recycled bottles. 

 Rain goes through the light court, beat down on the thin water basin on a garage floor and remain its traces.

Since the house uses structural plywood that has pits surfaces as a form-work, the whole looks like a rough concrete retaining wall.  

  Yet, the space is always wide open to the sky by the light court positioning in the center of the space that is slightly deformed in the shape of “L” due to the entrance. 

Courtesy: dezeen.com