Exo skeleton façade
The design of the 'exo skeleton' façade, by architect Chan Sau Yan Associates, was inspired by the reinforcing relationship between individual stems of bamboo in a cluster, that enables them to grow tall and strong.
This translates into steel columns embedded in concrete, intersecting one another, to form the exterior structure of the Tokio Marine Centre, whilst at the same time providing solar shading for about 30% of the building.
Chillers
Instead of a conventional airconditioning system with a chilled water temperature of 6.7oC, Tokio Marine Centre will operate on chilled water at a temperature of 11oC. The benefits of using a higher chilled water temperature, are lower power consumption and lower heat losses.
Carbon monoxide-free car park system
The parking system is designed such that vehicles are automatically carried and parked through the vertical movement of elevators and the horizontal movement of carts.
The driver will have to only drive and park the car in the lift, at which point the automatic parking system will take over and sequentially park the car. As such, cars will not have to travel up ramps, as is the case with conventional multi-storey car parks. This will reduce the time spent to find a parking lot, as well as eliminate the pollution normally caused by the movement of cars through a multi-storey car park.
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