Abstract
Publisher Summary The Rocks Gateway is a major commercial development located on a site of 7200 m2 in area bounded by George, Grosvenor, and Harrington & Essex streets. The Rocks Gateway is envisaged by the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority as becoming the gateway to the historic Rocks area of Sydney. The complex nature of the development and the high standards established for system design criteria made difficult a true comparison of the energy demands of the Rocks Gateway Project with any existing developments in Australia. The office tower design recognizes the energy implications of orientation, exposure, and the conflicting requirements of natural light penetration and exclusion of solar radiation. The architectural response to these influences was the development of a building plan form, orientation, solar shading, and glazing design in which the optimum energy balance is achieved by passive design, the inherent efficiency of which will be reflected in energy savings in perpetuity.
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