Description:
Commercial center and offices. Surface: 35 000 m² Parking: 400 places Client: Benchmark Conception: 2005 Completion: 2009
Sustainable Architecture in Office Building: Benchmark Tower in Sofia
The building with its unique outstanding silhouette represents a Landmark on the main entrance of Sofia Boulevard Tzarigradsko Shosse. Its major Atrium Space that goes through its 14 levels, as well as the two minor atriums beside it, bring into the whole office space a natural daylight. There are abundant vegetation and trees on the bottom of these atriums as well as on the outer terraces, thus contributing for its environmentally friendly character. The double-skin facade on the south west side, which is most exposed to the sun is energy-saving and also forms an effective barrier from the noisy boulevard. The “serving spaces” and vertical communications situated in the building’s core are separated by the atriums from the “served spaces” in which offices are found. Thus the walls are replaced with a vertical space with daylight and vegetation contributing for the creation of a communication space. The office spaces are eleven meters wide with daylight coming from both sides, and in that way they are very flexible in their multipurpose use.
