TAIKOO PLACE 2A HONGKONG, CHINA
HDA
HDA : FACADE DESIGN ARCHITECT CLIENT : SWIRE PROPERTIES LTD. ARCHITECTS : WONG & OUYANG LTD. DATE : 2011-2018
HUGH DUTTON ASSOCIÉS
The Taikoo Place expansion, financed by Swire Properties, includes a prestigeous 40-story tower with harbour frontage. The Client’s objective was to create an exceptional office environment with exemplary sustainability credentials. HDA were appointed as facade designers to assist architects Wong and Ouyang’s development of the curtain wall and podium level lobbies. HDA developed their proposals in response to the built context and climate data, carrying out a solar exposure assessment and parametric sun shading studies of the tower. Bespoke sunshading profiles were drawn and geometrically calibrated to filter light and reduce glare intensity, creating an agreeable soft light in the interior spaces. Immense 3m wide picture windows were proposed to optimise the harbour views, the tower thus becoming the very first in Hong Kong to exploit a unitized curtain wall design at this scale.
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