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Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre
The Optic Cloak |
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PROGETTISTA |
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CONTESTO |
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| Localizzazione |
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 The 3000 m2 Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre, situated in a prominent location at the entrance to the peninsula, adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel Approach, is a highly visible and important new landmark that demonstrates the applicants’ and stakeholders’ commitment to sustainable and affordable energy for all. |
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| Complesso degli interventi |
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DESCRIZIONE |
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| Art and architecture in completed energy station |
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 C.F. Møller Architects, artist Conrad Shawcross and developer Knight Dragon have completed a major new art and architecture collaboration for the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre.
 The Greenwich Peninsula is one of London’s major urban development areas, including over 10,000 new homes, over 300,000 m2 of office space and the conversion of the former Millennium Dome into the indoor arena renamed The O2.
Construction started in 2015, and has completed in 2016, and the building footprint further allows for flexibility in adopting new energy technology over the building’s substantial lifetime.
The Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre will be an important new landmark that demonstrates a commitment to sustainable and affordable energy for all.
Situated in the prominent location adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel Approach, the building houses technically advanced boilers and combined heat & power plant that provides heat energy for the businesses and 10,000 consented new homes of the Greenwich Peninsula Masterplan.
Guided by a desire to demystify the process of energy generation, the machine room and flexible ancillary office accommodation is supplemented with a visitor centre that will offer an interactive educational experience for prearranged groups of visitors.
The Energy Centre sits on a plinth that responds to the neighbouring Dreadnought Building with a brick facade that conceals the building’s ancillary functions. The building footprint allows for exibility in adopting energy technology over the building’s substantial lifetime and is clad in silver panels whose profiles vary giving the building a human scale. Roof top plant is screened behind a full-height parapet, while the massing of the flue enclosure is manipulated to create ‘the blade’ – a tall and slender place-making statement for the gateway to the Peninsula. |
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| Sculptural landmark |
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 Designed by British artist Conrad Shawcross, the cladding of the 49 metre high stack tower unites sophisticated engineering and complex optic research to create an impressive sculptural concept on a huge scale: The cladding for the structure is formed of hundreds of triangular panels that fold and flow across the surface of the tower forming complex geometric patterns that visually break up the flat planes to create an uneven, sculpted surface that plays with the vanishing points and perspective.
The panels are perforated so as to exploit the phenomena of the Moiré Effect, and at night an integrated lighting design produces a shifting series of ‘compositions‘ lit from within the structure.
The work of art by Conrad Shawcross is named ‘The Optic Cloak' |
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| Prepared for the future |
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 To demystify the process of energy generation, the Energy Centre’s machine room and flexible ancillary office accommodation is supplemented with a Visitor Centre offering an interactive educational experience for prearranged groups of visitors.
To the south of the plan, two stories of accommodation consisting of a visitor centre and office space are provided.
The office accommodation is located at the ground oor behind a dramatic double height entry lobby. Approximately 98m2 of flexible office space is provided in addition to fully accessible WCs and welfare facilities.
The visitors centre is located on the first floor and is accessed by a ambulant disabled stair and DDA compliant lift. The proposals are for an interactive experience that demystifies the process of energy production within a dramatic double height space of approximately 139m2. |
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| The Massing |
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 Due to operational and the legislative requirements of the Clean Air Act, the flue termination points were required to be +54.30 above ordinance datum (+49m from the finish floor level). This presents a significant opportunity for the project and the wider development.
 The purely rational response would be for two separate prefabricated flues to serve the Energy Centre’s boilers and CHP equipment. However, by combining the flues within a blade-like structure, a striking addition can be made to the city’s skyline.
The flues are located to the west of the plan and in parallel to the building. This is to allow for a rational machine room plan that locates all flues to the west with room for plant replacement to the more-readily accessible east facade.
The size of the machine room is determined by the operational requirements of the equipment installed at day one and also to allow for future expansion as demand increases. The height of the machine room parapet approximately aligns with the adjacent Dreadnought Building. |
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| The Blade |
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 The proposals provide the opportunity for a tall, slender focal element that acts as an ‘urban marker’ for the gateway to the Peninsula.
 A consistent parapet height is maintained for the machine room whose parapet responds to the adjacent Dreadnought building. The ancillary structures and retaining structure are located so as to respect the scale of the Dreadnought Building’s old school wall and yard.
The massing of the building is broken down into a more ‘urban’ scale by extending the blade massing down through the massing of the machine room.
The blade is then visually ‘lifted’ to be presented to city. |
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ECOSOSTENIBILITA' |
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| Architettura e sostenibilità |
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 Responding to a cross-party drive to increase the use of Combined Heat & Power (CHP) across the UK and to realize a vision of decentralized energy power generation in London, the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre houses technically advanced boilers and CHP that provide heat energy to the businesses and homes due to be built on the Peninsula in the coming years and is part of the Peninsula’s Sustainability Strategy.
The Energy Centre is the largest new build residential heat network in Europe, saving 15,000 – 20,000 tonnes of carbon every year.
Heat energy will be distributed via a District Heating Network (DHN) from the Energy Centre to each plot across the development. |
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LOCALIZZAZIONE |
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| Continente |
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Europa |
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 Gran Bretagna [United Kingdom] |
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 Inghilterra [England] |
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Londra [London] |
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 Londra [London] |
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Greenwich |
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| Indirizzo |
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Millenium Way
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TIPOLOGIA |
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Principale |
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ARCHITETTURA | Edifici e impianti industriali
Centri di produzione energetica
Monumenti, decorazioni, arredamento, grafica
Facciate ed elementi decorativi
Altre strutture architettoniche
Coperture, involucri
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ARCHITETTURA | Edifici per uffici e studi professionali
Uffici
Edifici e impianti industriali
Strutture accessorie
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CRONOLOGIA |
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Progetto |
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2008 - 2014
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Realizzazione |
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2015 - 2016 |
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PREMI |
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| 2017 |
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WAN Awards
Metal in Architecture
World Architecture News |
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COMMITTENTE |
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Royal Borough of Greenwich
Knight Dragon |
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DATI
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| Superficie |
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ARCHITETTURA DEL PAESAGGIO |
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STAFF |
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| Progetto |
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| Progettazione ambientale |
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CREDITS |
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Photos © Mark Hadden
Drawings © C.F. Møller Architects
Text edited by C.F. Møller Architects
Courtesy of C.F. Møller Architects
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