The building will be used for the research of cutting edge environmental energy technologies, and is described as “unprecedented”, with energy systems that not only reduce CO2 emissions by 60% or more but also provide sufficient electricity to cover the building’s own consumption.
Energy conservation is achieved through highly efficient equipment, and power is generated via a dense installation of 4,570 solar panels fitted to the facades of the building and a highly-efficient fuel cell system in a hybrid distributed power generation system using renewable energy and fossil fuels.
The building is also built around a seismic response-controlling structure capable of withstanding large earthquakes, which is achieved by forming a strong “basket-frame” of earthquake energy dissipation braces along the perimeter zones of the building.
The Environmental Energy Innovation Building is located on the Ookayama Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology and was initially conceived by the Inter-Departmental Organisation for Environment and Energy at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and subsequently designed by the Yoshiharu Tsukamoto laboratory (Architecture), Toru Takeuchi laboratory (Structure) and Manabu Ihara laboratory (Environment and Energy).
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