Flower Tower
Bill Dunster Architects Zedfactory Limited has been successfully demonstrated that the environmentally friendly skyscraper is no longer an oxymoron. Office towers by Ken Yeang and Norman Foster, among others, have shown that building tall can be energy efficient. However, there are currently few, if any, residential equivalents. Bill Dunster, architect of the low-energy BedZed development just outside London, has created the Flower Tower, a speculative, low cost, high-density block. Dunster’s proposed innovations include a facade containing wind turbines and photovoltaic cells, a water-recycling system and communal sixth-floor gardens. The tower’s floor plan is arranged as four petals radiating from a central spine, maximizing light to the apartments, reducing wind-loading and improving heating and ventilation efficiency. The Flower Tower is an attempt to create mass- market high-rise housing, showing that perhaps, in the future, the penthouse won’t be only the preserve of the super-rich.
Flower Tower designed by Bill Dunster Architects Zedfactory Limited
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