EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE WORLD HEADQUARTERS, NEW DELHI AS A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

Abstract

Development Headquarters in New Delhi is a sustainable building or an experimental project based on principle of environmental and social sustainability. The structure of the building responds to different seasons giving priority to low embodied energy materials, passive means for reducing operational energy, construction methods based on local or regional capabilities and resources, requiring low processing energy and local capital. It is a low cost model for building in context of urban India. In this paper the author has examined that how the architect has refused to avail best technologies for building air-conditioning system instead along with experts he opt for hybrid system estimated to be at least thirty percent more efficient than any anything in the market. The various elements of this building are evaluated on the basis of their suitability to the climate and redefing of old methods in the contemporary context instead of reviving traditions. Architect of the Development Headquarters is Ashok.B.Lall who is specialized in designing sustainable buildings. He was born in Delhi on 12 Jan1948.He has done his B.A (Arts and Fine Arts) from Cambridge University, UK. Ashok.B.Lall draws attention on industrialization and commercialization as building traditions which has been neglected. The study opens field on the research of how to make a building sustainable by using hybrid and redefine old construction methods in contemporary context in future.