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LEED-certified project in Korea features faceted façade to lessen solar gain
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The 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel that recently opened in New Songdo City, Korea, has won Silver-level certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program. One of the 25-story hotel's most notable green design features is the façades of its guest rooms, which are faceted to minimize their exposure to direct solar gain.
“The facades of the guestroom tower were specifically designed to be broken into four-story-tall, two-room-wide modules that are fractured and angled further away from direct solar radiation," says Kenneth Drucker, a design director for HOK, which provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the 500,000-square-foot hotel. “As a final detail, each of these modules is shaded by two, four-story-tall perforated aluminum sunshades.”
In addition, the hotel's lower amenity wing is wrapped in a reflective metal roof that shades portions of the glazed facades below.
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