Sunday 17 March 2013

Egg Shaped Building

Cybertecture egg office brings together iconic architecture, design, intelligent control systems, and evolutionary engineering to create the most innovative building in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex.



The concept for the Cybertecture Egg was inspired by looking at the world in terms of the planet being a self-sustaining vessel with an ecosystem that allows life to exist, grow and evolve.


 The form of the Cybertecture Egg is extruded from a sphere and evolved to create a unique and iconic building.
 The building serves as a beacon and nucleus for the immediate central business district area known as Bandra Kurla Complex.
 The scheme comprises 33,000 square meters of office space stacked in 13 stories with highly intelligent building management systems
 Like our planet Earth, the building has a sustainable ecosystem derived from Cybertecture thinking to give the building’s inhabitants both a dynamic physical world and access to virtual spaces of the connected world
 The structure of the Cybertecture Egg uses a diagrid exo-skeleton, which creates a rigid structural system allowing for large column-free floor plates and high space flexibility.
 The ingenuity of this form effectively reduces approximately 15% of construction material use compared to a conventional orthogonal building
 This building have an ecosystem of environmental technologies that will make the project one of the most sustainably advance designs in the world
 The building is orientated towards the ideal direction vis a vis the sun to minimize solar and heat gain.
 Green areas of the building will provide sun shading, oxygen replenishment, refuge areas for people as well as cooling for building and wetland filter beds for water recycling
 Photovoltaic cells are integrated into the façade facing the sun to help provide an alternative electricity source

This iconic building has 3 levels of basement providing 400 car parking spaces.

 The building’s glazing will have variable fritting and tones based on sun orientation, as well as variable shading and tinting
 The recycling of potable water is done through a combination of rain water harvesting systems, sewerage treatment and filtration, and wetland cell systems.
 These effectively recycle up to 20% of the water supply consumption of the building

 Related to the water recycling system, the underground cooling system embedded deep underground in a reservoir provide naturally chilled water for the building’s air conditioning.
Intelligence building management system will reduce energy use in the less utilized or less occupied locations.

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