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whatever water we can, but then whatever extra we can, we let some that go back to the ground to refill the water table.
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RIGHT The project’s water management system is designed so that it doesn’t burden the very fragile infrastructure of Jakarta, which is plagued by floods.
Duncan: To talk about the tower a little bit, the form of many parts of the project was driven by the idea and need to save energy. The big story with net zero is reduction first— trying to reduce the loads that are the demands. And then generation is the second part. So we’ve talked about geothermal, we’ve talked about the winds. The low buildings incorporated solar; the canopy incorporates solar. But the building’s shape helps substantially on the reduction side. The plan geometry is aligned with the sun path. The east and west notches have the specially designed façade with vertical fins counteract the low-angle east and west sun. The north and south facades have horizontal shading arrays, the two leaf-like forms that define the tower’s profile on the skyline. gb&d
LEFT The mosque features a low-tech solution that was arrived at through high-tech anaylsis and includes the team’s findings that it is actually better to draw in the cooler air only at night and release it throughout the day.
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