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Parasol Buildings
Tucson, AZ, United States
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Other Projects by markharris ARCHITECTS, PC
Parasol Buildings
Tucson, AZ, United States
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Situated on a long and narrow ‘aircraft carrier’ site, the building straddles the hillside of a local wash in the Tucson Valley of Arizona. Composed to two bridge structures, the building literally steps lightly upon the site by cantilevering the bridge structures upon pylons and a minimal concrete base. A steel canopy holds an array of photovoltaics while shading a majority of the building.
Borrowing it’s construction delivery techniques from industrial and automotive design, the project’s major elements are designed as a series of components that are manufactured under rigorous factory conditions and assembled on-site.
The design and it’s available process (utilizing Component Design Processes) can afford lower initial construction cost and time per building classification, lower construction waste, lower maintenance cost, lower energy consumption, greater floor area efficiency, lower overall footprint and site disturbance, and can be predominantly US-sourced in it’s materials.
Commitments to sustainability include: LED lighting throughout with occupancy sensors, high-performance insulated metal panels and SIPS, low VOC paints and finishes, high-performance glazing, natural light harvesting, high-efficiency zone-controlled HVAC with heat re-capture, low-volume and auto-shutoff plumbing fixtures, full pipe insulation throughout, Oasis black-water treatment to feed irrigation, 134KVA solar PV system (feeds back to grid), bio-swales at parking drainage, TPO reflective roofing, solar shading fins at primary glazing areas and rain-screen shading of primary building facades, double-door entries to minimize heat gain/loss.
Borrowing it’s construction delivery techniques from industrial and automotive design, the project’s major elements are designed as a series of components that are manufactured under rigorous factory conditions and assembled on-site.
The design and it’s available process (utilizing Component Design Processes) can afford lower initial construction cost and time per building classification, lower construction waste, lower maintenance cost, lower energy consumption, greater floor area efficiency, lower overall footprint and site disturbance, and can be predominantly US-sourced in it’s materials.
Commitments to sustainability include: LED lighting throughout with occupancy sensors, high-performance insulated metal panels and SIPS, low VOC paints and finishes, high-performance glazing, natural light harvesting, high-efficiency zone-controlled HVAC with heat re-capture, low-volume and auto-shutoff plumbing fixtures, full pipe insulation throughout, Oasis black-water treatment to feed irrigation, 134KVA solar PV system (feeds back to grid), bio-swales at parking drainage, TPO reflective roofing, solar shading fins at primary glazing areas and rain-screen shading of primary building facades, double-door entries to minimize heat gain/loss.
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