Eco Factor: Sustainable building to utilize green technologies to tackle high humidity.
Foster + Partners have started work on a 300,000-square-metre, mixed-use development in Vietnam, which is their first project in the country. Dubbed as the VietinBank Business Centre, the building, which will locate itself between central Hanoi and the airport, will utilize a mix of green technologies to do away with the area’s high levels of humidity and maintain a high level of energy-efficiency.
The development will comprise of two angular towers and a seven-story, podium building that, aside from connecting the towers, will hold conference facilities, luxury shops, cafes, restaurants and rooftop gardens. With an aim to lessen the effects of high humidity, the structure will use a low-energy, desiccant wheel and a system that draws in humidity, separates the water from the atmosphere and exhales hot, dry air. When cooled by ground water in a heat exchanger, this hot air is then released back into the buildings.
Via: Inhabitat
