Transcript Architect Seminar AS + GG Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Chhavi Garg B.Arch IV Yr.

Architect Seminar
AS + GG
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Chhavi Garg
B.Arch IV Yr.
061009
About the firm
• The firm was founded in 2006 by partners Adrian Smith,
Gordon Gill and Robert Forest. Today there are more than 150
employees in offices in Chicago and Dubai.
• The office is dedicated to the creation of new paradigms for
sustainable development.
• Design of high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable
architecture on an international scale.
• Believe that the future of architecture relies not on a changing
aesthetic but on the implementation of an integrated process,
predicated on an equal understanding and consideration of
each project discipline.
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Adrian Smith
• Adrian was a Design Partner in the
Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill from 1980 to 2003 and a
Consulting Design Partner from 2004
to 2006.
• Design approach emphasizes
sensitivity to the physical
environment.
• Projects under his design direction
have won over 90 major awards for
design excellence
• His work has been featured in major
museums in the United States, South
America, Europe, Asia and the Middle
East.
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Gordon Gill
Prior to founding Adrian Smith +
Gordon Gill Architecture in 2006,
Gordon was an Associate
Partner at Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill and a Director of Design
for VOA Associates.
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Robert Forest
• Was an Associate Partner in the
Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill before 2006
• A recognized authority on the
economics of sustainable design,
• combined his knowledge to develop a
system of best practices for the
management of high-performance
projects.
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Philosophy
• Architecture has a unique power to influence civic life.
• A holistic, integrated design approach that emphasizes symbiotic
relationship with the natural environment--a philosophy termed
“Global Environmental Contextualism.“
• Consider building orientation, day lighting, generation of wind power,
solar absorption, and a site’s geothermal properties
• Also represents a fundamental change in the design process, in
which Form Facilitates Performance.
• Create structures that not only reduce their negative environmental
impact, but in some cases, virtually eliminate it altogether.
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Philosophy
• Interaction among building systems as well as between those
systems and the natural environment, and seeks to improve each
individual system’s performance.
• To create designs that aid society, advance technology, sustain the
environment and inspire those around to improve our world.
• To create intelligent, high-performance, forward-looking designs
that exhibit timeless and enduring qualities.
• To support the clients in the realization of their visions, while
delivering the highest standard of design in the international
practice of architecture.
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Projects
Eco-Bridge
Chicago, Illinois
Matrix Gateway
Complex
Elphinstone Mills
+ Jupiter Mills
Mumbai, India
Wings Museum
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Masdar Headquarters
• The world's first 'positive energy' building
to be built in the zero-carbon, zero-waste
Masdar city in Abu Dhabi.
• The building includes office and residential
spaces retail and public gardens, as well as
a prayer hall and direct access to the city’s
transportation systems.
• Chicago Architecture Firm Adrian Smith +
Gordon Gill Architecture win global
competition
to
design
Masdar’s
Headquarters
• Masdar City will be constructed over seven
phases and is due to be completed by 2016.
Masdar’s headquarters is part of phase one
and will be completed by the end of 2010.
1.4 million square foot building
cost about $300 million
Characteristic Features:
• Be the lowest energy consumer per square meter for a modern class A
office building in an extremely hot and humid climate
• Compared with typical mixed-use buildings of the same size, the
Headquarters will consume seventy percent less water.
• Feature one of the world’s largest building-integrated photovoltaic
arrays
• Employ the largest solar thermal driven cooling and dehumidification
system – the world’s lowest impact active building conditioning system
• Be the first building in history to generate power and protect workers
during the construction process through a staged construction
• Will go beyond zero net energy, will be the world’s first mixed-use, large
scale positive energy building.
Masdar Headquarters
Characteristic Features:
• The building will utilize pioneering, never-before-seen technology in
the creation of the aesthetically sound, functionally proficient and
experientially superior development that will represent the city.
• Numerous systems that will generate a surplus of the building’s
energy, eliminate carbon emissions and reduce liquid and solid
waste.
• Inspired from the centuries of indigenous architecture, historically
successful building strategies for the climate with the latest
technology and innovative building systems, including some
developed especially for the Masdar Headquarters.
• For exterior walls, Smith and Gill have developed their own patentpending glazing system to keep the building’s interior cool.
• The facility also will be equipped with wind turbines, air quality
sensors, and a thermal-driven cooling and dehumidification system
Masdar Headquarters
• Sprawling canopy lined with
photovoltaics, resting on 11
massive glass hyperboloids.
Underneath the canopy, a series
of interconnected volumes,
topped by green roofs, provide
space for offices, retail stores,
and residences.
• Sustainable and efficient from
the beginning of constructionthe building cones and roof can
be built first, creating a shaded
micro climate for the remainder
of the construction and the roof,
covered with photovoltaic
panels, will provide enough
power to build the rest of the
building.
Modern wind towers
• Modern wind towers, one of the building’s references to traditional
Islamic architecture, are the basis for a number of features in the
complex design.
• They act as wind towers, exhausting warm air and naturally
ventilating the building, as well as bringing cool air up through the
subterranean levels of the city below.
• The cones maximize duffused natural daylight throughout the
building + avoid glare; the operable windows on the cones allow
occupants the option of naturally ventilating interior spaces.
• Structurally, cones support the building’s roof and allow for the
creation of a shaded ground plane on the top of the building.
• Spatially, they create garden courtyards at the public realm which
have pools of light and water. Each courtyard is programmed
differently, providing amenities and public space for occupants.
Masdar Headquarters
Masdar Headquarters
Some Structural Details:
Thornton Tomasetti
Masdar Headquarters
Lower Trellis: Mesh
Upper
Trellis:
Top
Chord Bracing
Lower
Trellis:
Peel
Lower
Trellis:
Peel
Truss
Cones
Cones
Cones
…..
• As a positive energy complex, the project will have a far-reaching
influence on the buildings of tomorrow
• Will set a new paradigm for the way buildings are designed,
constructed and inhabited.
• Represents the perfect integration of architecture and engineering,
resulting in a dynamic, inviting building that outperforms any other
structure of its type in the world.
Masdar Headquarters
References:
• www.masdar.ae
• www.thorntontomasetti.com/projects/masdar_headquarters_build
ing
• www.smithgill.com
Masdar Headquarters