ctbuh.org/papers Title: Case Study: One Central Park, Sydney Authors: Jean Nouvel, Principal, Ateliers Jean Nouvel Bertram Beissel, Partner, Ateliers Jean Nouvel Subjects: Architectural/Design Building Case Study Keywords: Energy Conservation Green Roofs Green Walls Residential Sustainability Publication Date: 2014 Original Publication: CTBUH Journal, 2014 Issue IV Paper Type: 1. Book chapter/Part chapter 2. Journal paper 3. Conference proceeding 4. Unpublished conference paper 5. Magazine article 6. Unpublished © Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Jean Nouvel; Bertram Beissel About the Council The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in CTBUH Journal Chicago and with a China offi ce at Tongji International Journal on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat University in Shanghai, is an international not-for-profi t organization supported by architecture, engineering, planning, development, and construction professionals. Founded in 1969, the Council’s mission is to disseminate multi- Tall buildings: design, construction, and operation | 2014 Issue IV disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved Case Study: One Central Park, Sydney in creating the built environment, and to make the latest knowledge available to professionals in High-Rise Housing: The Singapore Experience a useful form. 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The Council is the arbiter of the criteria upon which tall building height is measured, and thus the title of “The World’s Tallest Building” determined. CTBUH is the world’s leading body dedicated to the fi eld of tall buildings and urban habitat and the recognized international source for information in these fi elds. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat S.R. Crown Hall Illinois Institute of Technology 3360 South State Street Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: +1 (312) 567 3487 Fax: +1 (312) 567 3820 Email: [email protected] http://www.ctbuh.org ISSN: 1946 - 1186 Case Study: One Central Park, Sydney Going for Green, Heading for the Light One Central Park was developed as a response to growing demand for residential accommodation in downtown Sydney. Its developers and designers used the opportunity to make a powerful and visible green statement with a tall building that is environmentally responsive on multiple levels. The project challenges the Modernist resistance to surface accretion, both with a planted veil that cleans the air, provides shade, and speaks of a Jean Nouvel Bertram Beissel naturally-integrated urban vitality, and a technologically-assertive apparatus that guides the sun’s rays where they are most needed. Authors Jean Nouvel, Principal Bertram Beissel, Partner Global Overview influx of funds and knowledge has given Ateliers Jean Nouvel Australia one of the world’s top 10 GDPs per 10 cité d’Angoulême 75011 Paris, France The United Nations predicts that the world’s capita. Four Australian cities have recently risen t: +33 1 4923 8383 population will increase by 2 billion between into the top 10 of The Economist’s Global f: +33 1 4314 8110 e: [email protected]; [email protected] today and 2050, and the number of people Liveability Ranking of 2014. www.jeannouvel.com living in cities will rise from 50 to 75%. Inevitably, rural populations will be shrinking, One Central Park (OCP) near Central Station in Jean Nouvel and almost every urban center in the world Sydney is one development that demonstrates Jean Nouvel obtained his degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1972. will be growing. Twenty-first-century Australia how Australia’s urban growth is materializing Soon afterwards, he became a founding member is not exempt from this trend: Sydney could (see Figure 1). Until recently, rapid new of the “Mars 1976” Movement and was a founder of French Architecture Union. His works have gained grow from 4.6 million inhabitants today to 7 construction and short housing supply fueled a world-wide recognition. In 2000, Nouvel received the million by 2056, Melbourne from 4.1 to 6.8 conservative culture of cheap and fast projects Lion d’Or of the Venice Biennale. In 2001, he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British million, Brisbane from 2 to 4 million and Perth that favored minimal risk over design quality. Architects (RIBA), the Premium Imperial of Japan’s from 1.7 to 3.4 million. In this demographic But this tradition is being challenged by three Fine Arts Association and the Borromini Prize for the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne. scenario, all these cities will have to house one factors: political pressure to invest in Sydney’s Nouvel was the recipient of the prestigious Pritzker million or more new people within the next future, international developers willing to invest Prize in 2008. 20 years, or 4,000 per month. Australia’s in higher quality architecture, and buyers’ Bertram Beissel natural resources, arable land area and growing demand for signature design. OCP Beissel joined Ateliers Jean Nouvel in 1998 and economic outlook make such a population benefits from all three of these drivers. It is became a partner in 2002. He has directed a variety of European and international projects, including increase very possible. The Australian classified as a “State Significant Development” 53 West 53rd Street in Manhattan and the Guthrie government welcomes foreign real estate under the direct approval authority of the Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both of these projects are featured in the selected works of the investments to cope with the existing Minister of Planning, and as such has become a Pritzker Prize, which was awarded to Jean Nouvel shortage of 300,000 homes nationwide. public quality benchmark. in 2008. Beissel recently completed the design and construction of One Central Park Towers in Sydney, Simultaneously, it encourages the Australia. This project achieved the highest Green immigration of wealthy retirees, students, and As an indication of new buyers’ confidence in Star rating and takes a unique approach to urban solar power and organic shading. Currently, Beissel highly skilled workers from abroad. The steady innovative design, 90% of OCP’s initial is AJN’s US Project Director and is overseeing the construction of the 53W53 residential tower until its planned completion in 2018. Figure 1. One Central Park near Central Station in Sydney. © Atelier Jean Nouvel / PTW Architects 12 | One Central Park, Sydney CTBUH Journal | 2014 Issue IV Figure 2. One Central Park, Sydney – overall view of tower from northwest. apartments sold off-plan within a three- month record time, and the project was completed on schedule and on budget at AU$ 5,400 (US$4,743) per square meter. OCP reduces its cooling energy load with a “five-kilometer-long system of linear slab-edge Planning and Design planters that function like permanent shading One Central Park (see Figure 2) is the first shelves and reduce thermal impact in the stage of the AU$2 billion (US$1.76 billion) Carlton & United Brewery site redevelopment apartments by about 20%. Additional shading near Central Station in Sydney. The master plan was created with the understanding that from the plant foliage itself can further diminish Sydney’s population will keep growing and heat gains by an additional 20%… that residential towers near inner city traffic ” CTBUH Journal | 2014 Issue IV One Central Park, Sydney | 13 ventilation are all crucial for a superior energy project: they have to be useful and produce a performance, but don’t result per se in anything better human experience than the architecturally distinctive. engineered box. After finally having begun to acknowledge and One Central Park integrates two such address climate change with sustainable technologies – hydroponics and heliostats design in our cities, it still doesn’t really seem to (see Figures 3 and 4) – deep into its design “show.” Perhaps the challenge here is to and infrastructure, and then deploys them in communicate the importance of an invisible direct relation to the site. Hydroponics allow gas that we shouldn’t emit. We cannot see or using the recycled water from the blackwater feel CO2, and this invisibility alone translates treatment plant to irrigate plants that can poorly into architecture. As a result, there is an grow on tower façades in very shallow abysmal gap between the collective idea of slab-edge planters or on thin vertical green “green” buildings and