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Rising 828 meters over the desert metropolis of Dubai, the Burj Khalifa tower is the world's tallest
structure. The 280,000-square-meter skyscraper contains office, residential, and retail space, along
with a Giorgio Armani hotel. Built of reinforced concrete and clad in glass, the tower is composed of
three elements arranged around a central buttressed core. As it rises from a flat base, setbacks occur
at each element in an upward spiraling pattern, reducing the towers mass as it reaches skyward. At
the pinnacle, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a spire.
SOM created a simple Y-shaped plan to reduce wind forces, as well as to foster constructability. Each
wing, with its own high-performance concrete core and perimeter columns, buttresses the others via
a six-sided central core, or hexagonal hub. The result is a tower that is extremely stiff torsionally.
SOM applied a rigorous geometry to the tower that aligned all of the common central core and
column elements.
The setbacks are organized in conjunction with the towers grid: the stepping is achieved by aligning
columns above with walls below to provide a smooth load path. This enabled construction to
proceed without the normal delays associated with column transfers. At each setback, the building's
width changes. The advantage of the tower's stepping and shaping is, in essence, to confuse the
wind. Wind vortexes can never sufficiently coalesce because the wind encounters a different
building shape at each tier.
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Naik 828 meter di atas kota metropolis gurun Dubai, menara Burj Khalifa adalah bangunan
tertinggi di dunia. Gedung pencakar langit seluas 280.000 meter persegi ini berisi ruang
kantor, perumahan, dan ritel, bersama dengan hotel Giorgio Armani. Dibangun dari beton
bertulang dan dibalut kaca, menara ini terdiri dari tiga elemen yang disusun mengelilingi inti
inti yang tertindih. Karena naik dari dasar datar, kemunduran terjadi pada setiap elemen
dalam pola spiral ke atas, mengurangi massa menara saat mencapai langit. Di puncak, inti
pusat muncul dan dipahat untuk membentuk puncak menara.
http://www.som.com/projects/burj_khalifa__structural_engineering