The aerodynamic shape has a number of positive consequences on the project, like improvement of transparency and reduction of reflections on the facade. It also reduces the wind loads on the structure and cladding, plus the very significant fact for pedestrians that the wind is not deflected towards ground level.
Explaining the form the architects write: ‘Conceptually the project develops ideas first explored in the Climatroffice design with Buckminster Fuller in the early 1970s. The project envisioned office space enclosed within a freeform glass skin to create a building with its own microclimate. At the time its complex, double-curved geometry would have been difficult to build. >>>
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