Conrad Hilton Foundation Headquarters

Conrad Hilton Foundation Headquarters

The Headquarters for the Conrad Hilton Foundation is a cutting-edge, environmentally sensitive and energy efficient building co-existing in harmony with the surrounding environment. The net-zero energy consumption facility has a long, narrow shape that allows daylight into and views out from most of its interior spaces, which include an airy entry, offices, three conference rooms, and central cubicle workspaces over two levels. Among its many green features, a solar thermal-heating system, water-cooled chilling, and a planted roof with its passive-downdraft HVAC system, which provides ventilation and cooling. The system comprises 17 downdraft shafts or “chimneys” that punctuate the perimeter and are visible outside, peeking out over the roof plane at regular intervals. Air travels down these shafts, entering the floors of the second and ground levels. Cold water pumped into coils below each chimney’s air-intake baffle cool the air, which then flows through vents into each office. The air rises naturally as it warms, escaping via louvers along the clerestory level in the building’s double-height atrium. In colder months, air traveling into these shafts is warmed by heat pumps situated in the floor.

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• Building Design