TECHNOLOGY AND AGING HYBRID PROTOTYPE

by Gary Chan Kwok Leung

Name

Gary Chan Kwok Leung

Email

gary131718@yahoo.com.hk

Course

MArch Architecture

With the exponentially growing usage of the internet in this technological world, internet contributes to the carbon footprint production. over 53.6% of global population using the internet, the demand for increased energy and infrastructure is accounting more than 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions. Research shows that 98% of energy input of the data center transfers to heat loss. As a data center is an inefficient system, this prototype explore the combination between the data center and elderly care home. This proposal is a new prototype of combining data center with elderly care home using the heat transfer as a platform to consolidate these polar opposite typologies into a harmony and sustainable proposal. This typology is built through a modular system which provide flexibility on expansion. Also, the orientation of the building can alter according to the environment to reach the best energy performance.