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SOUTHERN LIGHT


The southern elevations have aluminium 'light shelves' which bounce light deep into the plan


the floor area and it also solved the problem of the cold bridging that resulted from having an external exposed steel frame. The new enclosure is fully glazed with high performance glazing, allowing a high degree of light penetration into the space, which is only 16 metres deep. The southern elevations (effectively the 'inside face' of the L) have aluminium 'light shelves' incorporated in the curtain walling. These serve the double function of shading the facade from the sun and bouncing light deep into the plan.


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The ends of the wings have vertical fins that reduce the solar gain in the morning and the evening when the sun strikes, respectively, from the east and the west. The sealed box design approach should ensure that there are very low levels of air leakage.


Internally the main concerns were to create flexible spaces, to maximise the floor to ceiling heights and to improve the environmental behaviour of the building. There are no internal columns on the upper floor, allowing tenants to put in meeting


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