Torrent research centre ahemdbad

Sangath
Environmental sanitation institute
Mill owners association ahemdabad
Residence for Mahindra patel ahemdabad

"Most of our new office projects have gardens on roofs as a cooling feature. "The electric bills of
my office which used to be driven up by AC have dipped by 45%. Cooler office environs means
less AC consumption. All our new offices have gardens to prove this point," says president of
Indian Green Building Council (Gujarat) Sameer Sinha.

Torrent research and development centre on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar road have a sequence of

wind towers that are part of the passive downdraught evaporative cooling (PDEC) system. This
involves spraying controlled volumes of microscopic water droplets into hot, dry ambient air,
thereby causing it to cool and descend into a capture zone within a building.On another front
Sangath office of architect BV Doshi on Drive In road and the Environmental Sanitation Institute
in Sughad have natural insulation.

Director of Vaastu Shilp foundation, Yatin Pandya, says, "A section of Sangath is literally buried
under earth mound which acts as an insulation. The roof is a sandwich clay, ceramic fuses
and china mosaic. The garden here acts as micro climate regulators. The ESI in Gandhinagar
won a national award for sustainable building. Its harvests rain water, has a water cascade
channel and utilises reflected light of the sun to bring down temperatures.."

Same goes for the ATMA building on Ashram road, another Corbu building on the banks of the
Sabarmati. The structure is protected on two sides by brise-soliel sun-breakers. It modifies the
harsh sun rays and allows breeze from the river