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    The document summarizes the tropical architecture principles used in the New Media Tower building in Indonesia. Some key principles are: - Orienting the buildings north-south and angling the sides to reduce sunlight exposure - Using a double skin facade and perforated aluminum with holes to filter sunlight and heat and allow cross ventilation - Arranging interior spaces so rooms requiring more light are on the outer sides while less light-dependent functions are in the center - Incorporating courtyards and spacing between buildings to improve light distribution and airflow

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    The document summarizes the tropical architecture principles used in the New Media Tower building in Indonesia. Some key principles are: - Orienting the buildings north-south and angling the sides to reduce sunlight exposure - Using a double skin facade and perforated aluminum with holes to filter sunlight and heat and allow cross ventilation - Arranging interior spaces so rooms requiring more light are on the outer sides while less light-dependent functions are in the center - Incorporating courtyards and spacing between buildings to improve light distribution and airflow

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    The document summarizes the tropical architecture principles used in the New Media Tower building in Indonesia. Some key principles are: - Orienting the buildings north-south and angling the sides to reduce sunlight exposure - Using a double skin facade and perforated aluminum with holes to filter sunlight and heat and allow cross ventilation - Arranging interior spaces so rooms requiring more light are on the outer sides while less light-dependent functions are in the center - Incorporating courtyards and spacing between buildings to improve light distribution and airflow

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    The document summarizes the tropical architecture principles used in the New Media Tower building in Indonesia. Some key principles are: - Orienting the buildings north-south and angling the sides to reduce sunlight exposure - Using a double skin facade and perforated aluminum with holes to filter sunlight and heat and allow cross ventilation - Arranging interior spaces so rooms requiring more light are on the outer sides while less light-dependent functions are in the center - Incorporating courtyards and spacing between buildings to improve light distribution and airflow

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    Marsha Theresia

    2301864221
    LA44
    ARCH6050014 - Tropical Architecture

    1. Choose one High-rise building precedent in tropics. Explain the Tropical


    Architecture principles and concept that use in chosen high rise building
    precedent. (50%)

    STUDY CASE:

    NEW MEDIA TOWER UMN


    (Location: Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten)

    A. Sun Study

    This building is in a tropical area which exposed to sunlight from morning to


    afternoon. To optimize the amount of sunshine that enters this building, each
    building has a large distance between them, ensuring that the building does not
    shade the other.
    B. Form

    This building was shaped like an egg and had no straight lines. This is done
    to optimize the amount of light that enters each floor and makes the building
    more durable. This building also scattered into many smaller buildings, not
    only one big building, that designed to optimize light distribution in each
    area, resulting in just a few rooms that are not exposed with natural light
    and helps in reducing heat absorption.

    C. Orientation

    Every new media tower is angled north-south, with the smaller side of the
    building facing west-east to reduce direct sunlight from morning until
    afternoon.
    D. Openings

    The opening of this building is placed distributed in the certain area of


    Perforated Aluminum façade. This opening is for maximize the lighting in certain
    area that’s need a spotted lighting. On the few rooftops, there’s a big hole that to
    maximize the wind entering the building. The opening of this building is
    distributed throughout a specific section of the Perforated Aluminum façade.
    This opening is designed to increase illumination in areas that require spotty
    lighting. There is a large hole on the roof to maximize the amount of wind that
    enters the building and cooling the communal area.

    E. Shading

    Due to overpowering sunlight that come to this buildings, this building uses
    Double Skin Facade with the outermost layer using perforated metal sheets
    with holes used as a building cover as well as a solar shading mechanism to
    filter sunlight and heat that enters the building. The goal is to mitigate the
    effects of the tropical climate by minimizing the amount of heat and light that
    enters the building.
    F. Glazing

    This building use perforated aluminum with holes of varying sizes with the
    appropriate calculations to makes the sun's light enter the room but not
    dazzling and air circulation can function properly and keep the space cool. This
    solar shade contributes to the residents' thermal and visual comfort by
    preventing overheating and glare on hot or bright days. The perforated
    aluminum allows sunlight to enter and be dispersed equally, illuminating the
    interiors of the structure while not blinding the eyes.

    G. Planning

    The primary goal of this building is to control the energy from nature on tropical
    country and make the building sustainable. The strategy used by this building to
    optimize the entrance of lighting and make it comfortable in terms of thermal
    and visual comfort for the eyes when exposed to sunshine. As the result, this
    building has a radial design, with a classroom on the outer side that requires
    sunshine and a building in the center that does not require much illumination,
    such as an auditorium. As a result, the classroom received light from the
    outside building. This building using a double façade approach, with the outside
    skin consisting of a perforated aluminum panel with holes that enable the wind
    and sunshine to pass through, and the inside skin for each classroom consisting
    of a Styrofoam wall that separates the heat from both the outside and the
    inside. This approach has been shown to minimize light and heat entering the
    building by up to 50%, with a temperature differential of up to 4o C between
    outside and within the space. =

    H. Spaces

    To distribute the light in all important places with comfortable sunshine glare,
    this building uses a perforated aluminum with holes to filtering the light and put
    the circulation and the important rooms that need light in the outer side of
    buildings.
    I. Construction Elements

    Skin Facade is used as a building cover as well as a solar shading device to


    filter sunlight and heat that enters the building. The outermost layer uses
    perforated metal sheets with holes supported by anti-corrosive iron in the form
    of square and round pipes and is used as a building cover as well as a solar
    shading device to filter sunlight and heat that enters the building. This
    classroom wall used a Styrofoam wall that was fenced with 'chicken wire' on
    both sides and then covered with cement for the room wall that can help with
    this building thermal.

    J. Thermal Mass

    The temperature in this location is consistently high, with an average daily


    temperature of 30° C, causing thermal and visual discomfort for building
    occupants. That is why this building has a Styrofoam wall bordered on both
    sides with 'chicken wire,' and then covered with cement to prevent the thermal
    heat from the outside while maintaining the cool thermal from the air
    conditioner in each classroom.
    2. Explain the application of Tropical Architecture concept based on your Architectural
    Design (AD) Projects. (50%)

    STUDY CASE:

    DISSONANCE APARTMENT
    (Location: Thamrin Area, Jakarta)

    A. Sun Study

    This building has two main towers, to optimize the amount of sunshine that
    enters this building, each tower has a large distance between them, ensuring
    that the tower does not shade the other.
    B. Form

    The challenge with building in tropical countries is the high temperature. In


    comparison to a single big building mass, splitting the building into two
    masses reduces heat absorption through the building wall surface and
    maximizes the amount of sunshine entering each room. The wind can pass
    through the gap between the buildings, cooling the communal area that is
    located there. The building's tower has a curved shape for trapping the cold
    breeze in that gap.

    C. Orientation

    This building is angled north-south, with the smaller side of the building
    facing west-east to reduce direct sunlight from morning until afternoon. This
    is for minimizing the heat that directly entering the building.

    .
    D. Shading

    The solar shading devices used in this building are a horizontal single blade and
    a vertical fin, which reduce the amount of direct sunlight that enters the room
    also reducing the amount of thermal heat that enters while still allowing
    sunlight to enter and not obstructing the view from each room.

    E. Glazing

    This structure using vertical plants such as vines in horizontal single blade to
    cover the structure and reduce the glare of sunlight entering the building
    directly. An eggcrate railing is also used on this structure to diffuse sunlight
    that falls directly on the floor.
    F. Planning

    This building using single loaded corridor to maximizes the entrance of lighting
    in both of room and corridor. This is also helping the cross ventilation that
    happened in this building. This building also filled with green rooftop to create a
    zero run-off.

    G. Spaces

    All the room in this building is exposed with the sunlight because of single
    loaded corridor.
    .
    H. Construction Elements

    The top of the building is used as a rooftop garden and uses light color
    shades to minimize heat gain from the sun. this building also uses a
    concrete that durable in tropical area that exposed with overpowering
    sunlight and rain.

    I. Thermal Mass

    Using white on most walls can help minimize heat gain from the sun, because
    white has the characteristic of not absorbing heat. The building also using
    concrete as a main material that can absorb the heat well. and some part of the
    building that exposed directly with the sun is layered with a green façade.

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