Equator Tower
- Year
- 2013
- Type
- Commercial
- Status
- Built
- Firm
- REX
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
"An efficient vertical transport scheme'employing double-decker elevator cabs and two intermediate sky lobbies'is combined with an efficient service riser scheme'facilitated by three intermediate mechanical floors'to create a slender structural core. The core is ringed by 12 m wide office plates on a 1.5 m planning grid and layered 4.2 m floor-to-floor (2.9 m floor-to-ceiling). These parameters meet best practices for office flexibility, daylight penetration, and area efficiency (over 80%). The resulting office machine is clad in 3 m-wide, mullion-free, triple-glazed IGUs with clear glass spanning floor to ceiling.
"An efficient vertical transport scheme'employing double-decker elevator cabs and two intermediate sky lobbies'is combined with an efficient service riser scheme'facilitated by three intermediate mechanical floors'to create a slender structural core. The core is ringed by 12 m wide office plates on a 1.5 m planning grid and layered 4.2 m floor-to-floor (2.9 m floor-to-ceiling). These parameters meet best practices for office flexibility, daylight penetration, and area efficiency (over 80%). The resulting office machine is clad in 3 m-wide, mullion-free, triple-glazed IGUs with clear glass spanning floor to ceiling.