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Agora TOWER - TAIWAN
Agora Tower is a high-rise luxury residential building in the Xinyi district of Taipei, Taiwan.
It's another name is "Tao Zhu Yin Yuan". It is eco-friendly residential building and developed by BES Engineering Corporation.
BES Engineering Corporation signed a joint venture contract with the hotel's owner (Agora Garden Corporation), in March 2010 to build such residential tower. But actually both are owned by Core Pacific Group.
It is designed with the aim to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certificate. This 42,335m.square building accommodates rooftop clubhouses, a swimming pool, gym facilities, car parking floor, and 42 luxury apartments.
▪︎Desing Features
This building is 20 storey and designed to resemble the double helix structure of DNA, with two helicoidal towers twisting around a fixed central core. It contains two or four apartments on each floor.
Each apartment has area of 540m.square totally free from columns, providing fully flexibility in terms of interior layout and partitioning inside.
The tower is covered by mineral moat to protect the privacy and ground floor is covered by transparent fades.
The central core of the building accommodates two staircases, four high speed elevators, one car elevator and two glazed sky garages at the entrance of each apartment.
The landscape basement car parking was build on the car park of pre-existing Agora Garden hotel to minimize excavation and foundation costs. A circular light wall will allow sunlight and fresh air to reach all the basement levels, as well as naturally ventilate the connected swimming pools and fitness facilities.
Double layer facades are integrated with blinds to protect the apartments from the solar radiations in summer and reduce thermal loss during winters.
The successive floors are twisted by 4.5° clockwise and are connected at both ends by two spiralling mega-columns coated in green walls.
The double helix tower twists 90° in total from base to tip, rendering it a moving geometry that morphs its shape depending on which direction it is being viewed from. Its north-south elevation gives it a reverse pyramid shape, while its east-west elevation is shaped like a rhomboidal pyramid.
The suspended open-air gardens integrate a compost system to generate organic fertilisers, a rainwater capture system to irrigate the plants, and nests for birds. The planting beds are covered by a layer of Bethel white granite on honeycomb to protect the plants from excess heat.
The building also features a photovoltaic roof located 100m above ground. With a surface area of 1,000m², the photovoltaic pergola will integrate electricity produced from solar rays into the electric network of the building.
Two huge rooftop clubhouses under the pergola are surrounded by sky gardens that will naturally filter and purify rainwater with the action of the plants. The purified rainwater is injected into the building’s water distribution system by gravity.
Each apartment has area of 540m.square totally free from columns, providing fully flexibility in terms of interior layout and partitioning inside.
The tower is covered by mineral moat to protect the privacy and ground floor is covered by transparent fades.
The central core of the building accommodates two staircases, four high speed elevators, one car elevator and two glazed sky garages at the entrance of each apartment.
The landscape basement car parking was build on the car park of pre-existing Agora Garden hotel to minimize excavation and foundation costs. A circular light wall will allow sunlight and fresh air to reach all the basement levels, as well as naturally ventilate the connected swimming pools and fitness facilities.
Double layer facades are integrated with blinds to protect the apartments from the solar radiations in summer and reduce thermal loss during winters.
The successive floors are twisted by 4.5° clockwise and are connected at both ends by two spiralling mega-columns coated in green walls.
The double helix tower twists 90° in total from base to tip, rendering it a moving geometry that morphs its shape depending on which direction it is being viewed from. Its north-south elevation gives it a reverse pyramid shape, while its east-west elevation is shaped like a rhomboidal pyramid.
☆Green features of the building
The exterior of the building features a cascading layer of greenery with balconies on the periphery of each apartment, containing fruit trees, organic vegetable gardens, as well as aromatic and medicinal plants, which will enable the residents to grow their own produce.The suspended open-air gardens integrate a compost system to generate organic fertilisers, a rainwater capture system to irrigate the plants, and nests for birds. The planting beds are covered by a layer of Bethel white granite on honeycomb to protect the plants from excess heat.
The building also features a photovoltaic roof located 100m above ground. With a surface area of 1,000m², the photovoltaic pergola will integrate electricity produced from solar rays into the electric network of the building.
Two huge rooftop clubhouses under the pergola are surrounded by sky gardens that will naturally filter and purify rainwater with the action of the plants. The purified rainwater is injected into the building’s water distribution system by gravity.
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