SUZLON ONE
EARTH
     HADAPSAR, PUNE , INDIA
CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BENNINGER
ABOUT THE PROJECT
SITE AREA: 45392 m sq
BUILT UP AREA :70865 m sq
AIR CONDITIONED AREA: 40418m sq
ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION: 47% from GRIHA benchmark
WATER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION: 65% from GRIHA benchmark
EPI: 55.86 KWh m sq/year
GRIHA RATING: 5 stars
   TYPOLOGY                                              PHILOSOPHY
            The campus is a corporate campus .               To be a company that serves society
            The occupancy profile of the campus is           with sustainable wind power on a
            of 24x7 global shared service provider           commercial scale with a focus on
            and the 'think tank' for the globe across        continuously increasing the efficiency
            all locations .                                  and reliability of wind turbines
            The office is transformed from a
            strategic center to a global
            management headquarter.
                                                         SUSTAINABILITY
 REQUIREMENTS                                                  To contribute to the reduction in use of
                The spaces designed according to user          fossil fuels by reducing carbon
                needs and emotions catering the                footprints
                function required for the program and          use of Intelligent Building Management
                even certain extra luxury facility .           System
       SITE AND CLIMATE
Tropical wet and dry climate .
temperature ranging between 20C-28C
The site is linear
Surrounding context of the site is residetial
zone.
The access to the site is perpendicular to main
road.
                       
          SITE                               SURROUNDING AREA   ACCESS
    USER TYPOLOGY                                                                                                                 CMD
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        Scale                           Design                           Execution
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                           emotional , functional and intellectual
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                                                                                                 HIERARCHY
 MAPPING OF USER EMOTIONS
        DESIGN DRAWINGS WERE DONE WITH RESPECT TO
                 VASTU                                           COST AND
                                     LOCAL RULES AND
               COMPLIANCE                                          TIME
                                       REGULATIONS
 FUNCTIONAL                 CONSTRUCTION          CRITERIA FOR GREEN
REQUIREMENTS                 TECHNOLOGY                BUILDING
FEATURES
      1.                                          2.
      A low rise green campus having              the south west side of the camus is put
      functional and flexible design with         with a water tank with minimum
      integration of inside and outside based     openngs , the orientation of the bulding
      on the principal of vastu.                  is north- south direction.
      3.
                                                    4.
     the centre 'Bramahsthal' is open to sky to
                                                       all the possible sides have peripheral
     get enbough sunlight.
                                                       roads and indirect access from them.
           5.                                            6.
           the north east side has low rise and          the entire plot is divided into two parts
           maximum openings with high                    with corporate building placed on the
           performance glass                             eastern side and the learning centre on
                                                         the western side.
FEATURES
      1.                                           2.
      The site plan enhances the drainage          The barren land waas reforested with
      streams on the western edge of the plot      plantation around the periphery
      turning it into a bio diversity parkand re
      establishing the channel
      3.
                                                    4.
     More than 50% of the site is open
                                                        Underground storm drains maintain
     softscape and thus provides evaporation
                                                        preconstruction watershead during
     transpiration and shading
                                                        drainage channels
           5.                                             6.
           The roofscape include planted areas .          The main central courtyard is plnted
                                                          with indegenious trees shrubs and grass .
FEATURES
     1.                                         2.
     To link the indoor and outdoor there are   glass cylinders in the main entrance cores
     semi open decks , they are informal work   bring direct sunlight into the lobbies at
     areas surrounded with shrubs , flower      lower levels they are heavily planted
     beds and water bodies , they help to       ,thereby act as chimneys thus they serve
     control the micro climate.                 dual role of getting natural light and
                                                exhausting the lower ground floor passively.
                                                cut outs along the periphery bring fresh air
     3.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability was the objective since
stage one and was embedded in every
design aspect.
Sustainable solutions were integrated
towards efficiency in :
   Energy use
   Water use
   waste management
   Material use
   Healthy air quality
   Operating practices
             47%                            85%
ENERGY SAVING RECYCLED WASTE
             60%                           90%
 WATER SAVING                            DAYLIGHT USE
                                                                 OCH TO SUSTAINABIL
                                                             APPR                  ITY
  ENVIRONMENT                           WATER                           ENERGY                                ECO FRIENDLY                    HEALTHY                               INNOVATIVE
    SENSITIVE                          SENSITIVE                      CONSCIOUS                                MATERIAL &                      INDOOR                                 DESIGN
  DEVELOPMENT                          APPROCH                         APPROCH                                 RESOURCES                    ENVIOURNMENT                              ELEMNT
The Suzlon project has a            Low flow faucets (pressure
                                                                   Optimized Orientation - Mass              To reduce impacts new          CO2 Sensors have been           REEN DESIGN EDUCATION– Suzlon
                                                                   Articulation / Mutual Shading High
Transportation Policy in place to                                                                            virgin materials, products     provided in densely occupied    has in place a ‘Green Design
                                    compensated 1.6 GPM            Performance Glazing                                                                                      Education’ policy through which
cater to about 20% of the                                           Over Deck Insulation                     with high recycle content      spaces and workstation areas
                                    economic aerators)                                                                                                                      green design education in given to
building occupants and                                              Interior lighting power density          are used, which measure to     to monitor and control CO2      the new recruits, green awareness
employees can avail the              Touchless urinals with        <0.8W/sqft (350 Lux Average)                                             levels inside the building.
                                                                                                             about 13.26% of the total                                      program to employees as per
company bus servicesbin             hytronic sensor (0.22l/         Use of Day lighting and Occupancy                                       • HVAC system is designed for   training calendar
addition to the 200 executives      sec;default flush time of 4    sensors                                   value of thematerials in the                                   GREEN HOUSEKEEPING POLICY–
                                                                                                                                            30% additional ventilation
participate in the carpooling       secs.)
                                                                   System Flexibility Of Variable            project.                                                       Suzlon with help of CBRE has in
                                                                   Refrigerant Volume System                                                rates required by ASHRAE
program and 30 preferred                                                                                      The use of PPC cement for                                     place a ‘Green Housekeeping’ policy
                                    Geberit concealed Dual         Pre-cooling And Heat Recovery                                            Standard.                       through which a green housekeeping
parking spaces have been
                                    Flush - half/full (0.8/1.6     Direct-indirect Evaporative Cooling       non structural areas with      ow emitting materials - To      products and process has been
reserved for carpools.
Alternative Transportation has      GPF)
                                                                   The Renewable Energy system to            fly ash, use of Rerolled       reduce the quantity of indoor   implemented.
                                                                   generate on-site green power                                                                             EXEMPLARY PERFORMANCE IN
been encouraged in this project     The on site waste water        consists of 18 Wind mills combined
                                                                                                             reinforcement steel, Fly       air contaminants
                                                                                                                                                                            REGIONAL MATERIAL– The project
by providing 96 e-charging          treatment is being done        with 243 Solar Panels and 5.69% of        Ash Bricks, High recycled      Low Emitting Adhesives,         has achieved exemplary
points to                                                          the building’s energy is being            content carpets and            Sealants, Paints and Carpets    performance by using regional
                                    through a Sewage               provided by on-site renewable
Various Water Treatment                                                                                                                     and composite wood              materials which measure to about
                                    Treatment plant located at     energy
                                                                                                             modular ceilings .
Techniques have been used in                                                                                                                products have been used.        50% of the total value of the
Suzlon One Earth project to         basement to treat the          Jet fans for parking ventilation: r The   To reduce environmental                                        materials in the project
                                                                                                                                             3M Mats are being used at
ensure general water quality. The   wastewater to tertiary
                                                                   connected load is brought down to         impact resulting from                                          CONSTRUCTION ON RENEWABLE
                                                                   216 kW as opposed to 472 kW                                              the entrances to prevent dust   ENERGY- The project offsets more
Rain water harvesting system        standards. This treated                                                  transportation, around
                                                                   expected in conventional ways. The                                       entering into the building.     than 50% annual energy
helps to capture and treat and                                     operation of fans is based on signals     80% of regional materials
                                    water is used for Irrigation                                                                            For Thermal Control openable    consumption used during
reuse the rain water on site.
                                    completely by eliminating
                                                                   received from CO sensors which            (within a radius of 800 km)    panels are provided in the      construction with renewable energy.
The project has mitigated the                                      further reduces electrical                                                                               ZERO WASTE POLICY- Waste Policy
heat island effect by providing     the potable water demand       consumption
                                                                                                             are used in this project.      glazing for more than 50% of    will guide people to redesign their
90.99% roof with SRI compliant      by 100%. The treated water     Task Lighting at Each Workstation/        Rapidly renewable              building occupants.             resource use system with the aim of
materials.                          is also used for AC make up
                                                                   Daylight Harvesting Design/ Exterior      materials like Tarkett         More than 75 % of spaces        reducing waste to zero. It will also
The steep slope roof is provided                                   LED Street Lights                                                                                        help to make people understand that
                                    for the water cooled           Making maximum use of daylight
                                                                                                             Bamboo flooring, Carpets,      have been designed to get
with high reflectance Indiana                                                                                                                                               resources such as paper,cardboard,
                                                                   helps to save a significant amount of     Cotton/ Jute carpets were      daylight & more than 90% of
copper coated Kalzip Aluminium      chillers.                                                                                                                               food, etc. should be used
                                                                   energy. The 9-ft full height glazing      used and amounted to           occupants have views to         responsibly in order to achieve a
Profile sheet,The Solar                                            coupled with a narrow floor plate -
                                                                                                             5.89% of the building          outdoors. The workstations      green office environment.
Reflectance Index of these                                         79 ft in general and 59 ft in block F
                                                                                                                                            are designed with low           CONSTRUCTION ON RENEWABLE
materials is more than                                             and G - provide tremendous                material cost.                                                 ENERGY -Suzlon made an attempt to
78,combining envelope                                              potential for daylight harvesting.
                                                                                                                                            partition for better external
                                                                                                                                                                            offset the environmental impact of
performance with cost                                              This potential has been fully utilized                                   view.                           energy consumed by the facility,
effectiveness                                                      by nonobtrusive placement of                                             The basement is designed to     since the Offsite Green Power
                                                                   enclosures like conference rooms                                         be an active part of the        produced is more than 50% of
                                                                   and the use of intelligent lighting                                                                      Project’s Energy Consumption
                                                                                                                                            structure
                                                                   controls
         PLANNING
       BUBBLE DIAGRAM   ORGANIZATION
GOAL
ACTIVITY MAPPING
 SECTION
    &
ELEVATIONS
      A strategy of
increasing the ratio of
     fenestration to
 volume was used to
    improve natural
       lighting and
   ventilation which
ultimately resulted in
  thinner and longer
   building spaces.
 SHADOW
  STUDY
A carefully in depth study
  of the sun and shadow
  patterns has helped to
identify functional use of
   spaces and the right
 locations for lawn, lotus
   pools and flowering
           plants
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