KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten recently won the international competition entitled “Blue Sky Building Project” for the Air China headquarters in the major west Chinese city of Chengdu. With its design for the high-rise, the international team from Frankfurt/Main and Beijing headed by Johannes Reinsch, Managing Director of KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, saw off five other entries. The office boasts a gross surface area (GSA) of 124,000 m² and offers space for a total of 5,470 workspaces. The fact that the high-rise design should serve as a role model with regard to energy efficiency and sustainability is of major concern to the developer. More images and architects’ description after the break.
For this reason a special solution was found for the façade of the 180-meter high tower: What are referred to as fins, which protrude from the tower’s glass and, through convection, transport the surplus heat outside, thereby cooling the building. Particularly in a region with subtropical humidity and a high average annual temperature of approx. 17.0° C (Chengdu), one of the objectives was to dissipate unwanted excessive heat as effectively as possible.
