DESIGN TASKL A R G E E N E R G Y

E F F I C I E N T B U L D I N G S

Design Task

New Building : Design of Europe’s most energy efficient building.

Site : Bjørvika, Oslo.

On a site at Bjørvika (B13) near the Oslo S railway station be-hind the new Opera, a planning principle named Barcode won a planning competition a while back. On one of the Barcode strips of 100 metres (North-South) x 24 metres (East-West) you shall design a building with the ambition of becoming Europe’s most energy efficient commercial building. It shall have a total en-ergy need of less than 80 kWh/m2.

Indoor temperature is set at 21 degrees C in the occupation time, which will be both for the offices and the hotel on average : 10 hours a day and 5 days a week.It shall contain 8500 m2 office and 8500m2 hotel, totalling gross area of 17.000 m2. Restricted parking of 1,6 places per 1000 m2. No building parts shall be higher than 20 storeys. Site is on level + 4 meters. Maximum building height must not exceed + 67 meters. There are streets and traffic on all sides of the site.The distance to neighbouring buildings on the long sides is 14 metres. On the South side it is 42 metres. On the North side it is 25 metres.

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