Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre, UK Architecture, Knight Dragon News, Images
Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre in London
New Art and Architecture Collaboration, London, England – design by C.F. Møller Architects
2 Feb 2017 + 14 Oct 2016
Low Carbon Energy Centre
Design: C.F. Møller Architects ; Artist: Conrad Shawcross
Location: Millennium Way, Greenwich, London, UK
Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre
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 in London.
The Energy Centre is the largest new build residential heat network in Europe, saving 15,000 – 20,000 tonnes of carbon every year.
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Photography: C.F. Møller / Mark Hadden
C.F. Møller Architects, artist Conrad Shawcross and developer Knight Dragon reveal the design of 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 sqm of office space and the conversion of the former Millennium Dome into the indoor arena renamed The O2.
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 Lon-don, the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre will house technically advanced boilers and CHP that will 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 3000 sqm Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre, situated in a prominent location at the entrance to the peninsula, adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel Approach, will thus be a highly visible and important new landmark that demonstrates the applicants’ and stakeholders’ commitment to sustainable and affordable energy for all. Heat energy will be distributed via a District Heating Network (DHN) from the Energy Centre to each plot across the development.
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 impres-sive sculptural concept on a huge scale: The cladding for the structure will be formed of hundreds of triangular panels, each the height of a London bus. These tiles 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 will produce a shifting series of ‘compositions‘ lit from within the structure.
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. Construction will start in 2015, and be completed in 2016, and the building footprint further allows for flexi-bility in adopting new energy technology over the building’s substantial lifetime.
Simultaneously with the Energy Centre, C.F. Møller is also designing one of the new housing developments within the Greenwich Peninsula site for the site-wide developer Knight Dragon.
Low Carbon Energy Centre – Building Information
Address: Millennium Way, Greenwich, London, UK
Client: Royal Borough of Greenwich and Knight Dragon
Architect: C.F. Møller Architects
Landscape architect: C.F. Møller Landscape
Artist: Conrad Shawcross
Engineering: Environmental: Buro Happold, Infrastructure: Ove Arup &Partners
Size: 3000 sqm
Year: 2008-2016
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Location: Millennium Way, Greenwich, London, England, UK
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