Edificio Arco — Net Zero Office Tower

Bogotá, Colombia, South America

Completed · Commercial · Net Zero Carbon Office Tower · Temperate · 2022

A 22-storey commercial tower in Bogotá certified LEED Platinum and targeting operational net zero, using a high-performance double-skin facade calibrated to Bogotá's equatorial highland climate. The facade modelling accounted for the city's narrow daily temperature swing to minimise both solar gain and night-time heat loss without mechanical compensation.

Innovation highlights

• double-skin facade engineered for equatorial highland climate (2,600 m altitude, narrow diurnal swing)
• LEED Platinum v4 — one of the first in Colombia
• on-site renewables combined with verified energy use intensity of under 70 kWh/m²/yr
• facade parametric optimisation reduced cooling load by 35% vs code-compliant baseline

Client / Developer

Grupo Argos / Pactia

Architect

Ctrl+A Arquitectos

Engineer

Arup (sustainability and MEP)

Type

Net Zero Carbon Office Tower

#net zero #double skin facade #LEED Platinum #high altitude climate #Bogotá #commercial office

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