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Read about the winner and runners up for this year’s Building Performance Award
The Big Data institute is a 7,500m² building designed for the University of Oxford to store, analyse and process large quantities of data to provide insights into illnesses and treatments worldwide. Employing extensive passive design, using assisted natural ventilation and varying facade solidity to reduce solar gain, air in the 600m subterranean labyrinth is drawn from outside, and is either cooled or warmed by the structure’s concrete walls, which remain a relatively constant 12°C, to regulate temperatures in summer and winter.
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