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Tower of Tables' stacked pavilion concept groups four to six-story workspace communities with surrounding landscape terraces and facilitates the collaborative nature of contemporary office-based work. The tower has a flexible podium with a central courtyard, and a looping plan encourages collaboration and challenges "nesting." The forest courtyard features four circular pavilions that can be used as breakout spaces and for meetings. 

The proposal reduces carbon emissions by addressing construction, energy consumption and energy generation. Taken together the three strategies reduce carbon emissions per square meter by more than 60 percent. With mass engineered timber (MET), the total embodied carbon emission can be reduced by 50 percent. Innovation in comfort and energy design can reduce the electrical energy demand of the office spaces by 30 percent, while on-site photovoltaics can produce approximately 20 percent of the building’s electrical energy demand.

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