Zion National Park Visitors Center, Springdale, Utah - 2000
This collection features photos from the visitor center at Zion National Park, a sustainable building that incorporates the area's natural features and energy efficient building concepts into an attractive design that saves energy and operating expenses while protecting the environment. In creating the Zion National Park Visitor Center, the National Park Service, working with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has stayed true to the tenets of protecting Zion's natural beauty.
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- The NPS has worked with NREL to create a new sustainable building to serve as a visitor center for the park's current 2.5 million annual visitors as well as visitors in the future.
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- Outdoor "rooms" for permanent displays allow for a smaller building design as well as lower capital and operation costs. The new Visitor Center at Zion National Park is a sustainable building that incorporates the area's natural features and energy efficient building concepts into an attractive design that saves energy and operating expenses while protecting the environment.
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- As part of redesigning the visitors' experience at Zion National Park, clean running propane buses were designed to shuttle the park's 2.5 million annual visitors throughout the area. Automobile traffic, which was causing damage to the air and ecosystem of the park, was minimized.
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- Clerestory windows, shown here, provide daylighting and ventilation.
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- Rooftop PV system on the Zion Visitor Center.
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- In this photo inside the Visitor Center you can see the vents of one of the passive down-draft cooltowers.
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- The NPS has worked with NREL to create a new sustainable building to serve as a visitor center for the park's current 2.5 million annual visitors as well as visitors in the future.
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- This photo of the Zion Visitor Center shows the Trombe wall, clerestory windows, and cooltower.
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- This photo of the Zion Visitor Center shows the Trombe wall and clerestory windows.
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- In this photo inside the Visitor Center you can see the vents of one of the passive down-draft cooltowers.
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