The Strata - VIEW FROM THE SHARD edition - London, Great Britain.
N 51° 29.581 W 000° 05.955
30U E 701360 N 5708642
The Strata SE1 Building - Featured in the Brown section of the Monopoly, Special edition board game called 'View from the Shard' The Shard, & Strata are Located in London, Great Britain.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/24/2016
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Strata SE1 - Nicknamed 'Razor' or 'Electric Razor' Stands nearly 500 feet tall. Home to more than 1,000 people & the first ever building with wind turbines integrated into the building.
The Strata SE1 was the tallest building in South London when completed in 2010. Located at the Elephant & Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, Great Britain.
The building features prominently in the science-fiction novel, Ice Diaries, by Lexi Revillian.
From the Architects Website:
"Strata SE1 had to be a commercially viable residential development, but also – as the highly visible flagship project of the multibillion-pound regeneration of Elephant and Castle – it had to demonstrate impressive sustainability credentials.
Integrated wind turbines had not been done before, so WSP | Parsons Brinckerhof had to resolve all of the technical issues without any previous experience to go on.
There are three turbines inset into the very top of the tower, which are expected to provide up to 8% of the building’s energy needs. The wind turbine enclosure itself is equivalent to a five-storey building. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff had to look at how turbines were supported, what the loads would be, and the effect of the building’s form on the wind flow.
There were also acoustic issues – the blade arrangement and acoustic protection were designed to minimise disturbance to residents of the penthouses and the tower’s neighbours.
Strata SE1 also incorporates a number of sustainable innovations, including a high-performance facade with an air permeability leakage rate 50% better than current regulations, low energy and presence detecting lighting, and a vertical district heating system which negates the need for boilers to each unit.: Text Source: (
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