Vanke Photovoltaic Panels

How does Vanke use energy?

It utilizes greywater recycling, rain water harvesting, green roofs, dynamically controlled operable louvers, and high-performing glass. 1400 square meter of photovoltaic panels installed on the roof of the building provide 12.5 percent of the total electric energy demand for Vanke Headquarters.

What makes Vanke a sustainable building?

Vanke headquarter offices Building, China – design by Steven Holl Architects “This project skips along from mound to mound and manipulates the landscape – it builds it up and shapes it into a powerful form above the land with inventive manipulation. The building is shading the landscape and letting it breath – integrated sustainability.

Where is Vanke Headquarters located?

The newly finished Vanke headquarter offices in the Horizontal Skyscraper/Vanke Center in Dameisha, Shenzhen. This hybrid building, a design by Steven Holl with partner Li Hu, includes apartments, a hotel, and offices for the headquarters for Vanke Real Estate Co. ltd.

What is Vanke Center?

Vanke Center, set to break ground in April 2007, is located on a 60,000 sqm site on the Chinese coast. The building, a floating horizontal skyscraper, will contain a conference center, hotel, serviced apartments and offices.

What is the Vanke Center landscape?

As a restorative ecology, the Vanke Center landscape works to maintain native ecosystems minimize run-off, erosion and environmental damage associated with conventional modes of development.The project is both a building and a landscape, an intertwining of sophisticated engineering and the natural environment.