Tectonics

Architect: Pranav Iyer
Firm: Ground 11

Tectonics is a 1.2 million sft multi tenanted office building, with a projected electricity demand of over 12 megawatts. The overall design of the building strives to harness the sun to offset the large energy requirement through the facade as a solar power plant. The design of the facade is in the form of gently curving plates that form multiple epidermal elements that flow and overlap along the face of the building, releasing the building framework to expose oases at differing levels. The intent is to use the skin of the building as a power plant and show the internal frame as a natural counterforce that generates energy in the form of dense gardens.

The glass facade of the building is composed of twin sheets of glass with a photovoltaic coating. The outer face of the inside glass sheet reflects solar energy onto the inner face of the coating, almost doubling the efficiency of the window panel.