Controllable Solar Shading with architectural louvers -
Colt architectural metal louvers and architectural solar louvers with photovoltaic cells

Project location:

• New York

Project details:

• Client:
  The Sheldrake Organization
• Architect:
  Polshek Partnership and Ismael Leyva
• Maincontractor:
  Plaza Construction Corporation
• Main contractor:
  Sky King
• PV Consultants:
  Altpower
• Project Brief:
  To provide a fixed and movable sun tracking louver system on the building's plant room at its top elevation

Colt products:

• Solar shading - metal louvers
• Shadovoltaic - architectural solar louvers
• Girasol

Leaflets:

• Battery Park Leaflet (877Kb)
• Shadometal- metal louvers (325Kb)

A green tower for New York

Accordingly and several of its recent buildings have qualified for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ratings from the U.S. Green Building Council.

One River Terrace is Battery Park's latest residential addition. At 320 ft and 31 storeys high, with 264 units, it is expected to win a platinum LEED rating.

	One River Terrace, (c) Nelson Bakerman Photographer

Colt shading systems have made a contribution to this achievement. Around the top level plant room Colt has provided a series of architectural louvers to generate electrical power. These comprise Shadometal perforated metal architectural louvers to the north elevation, and movable and sun-tracking vertical Shadovoltaic (photovoltaic) louvers to the south, east and west elevations.

	Shadoglass architectural louvers			Shadovoltaic louvers

These architectural louvers provide just over half of the building's 70 kWp electricity that is generated from photovoltaic cells. Furthermore, the movable louvers are controlled by a passive Girasol sun tracking system that is entirely autonomous.