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Multi-storey residential
buildings with commercial
units and an underground
parking garage
These designed multi-storey
residential buildings with
commercial units on the ground
floor and a one-storey underground
parking garage will be located in
Krakow, Poland.
The four buildings are connected by
expansion joints in the aboveground
part, but have a common foundation
plate. The three higher segments
(two on the outer sides and one in
the middle), with a height of 51.08
m, consist of 16 aboveground
floors. The fourth segment has a
height of 25.8 m and has 8 storeys.
All segments have a common
underground level extending
beyond the outline of the
aboveground structure. Maisonettes
are designed for the last 16 floors in
each of the higher segments (the
second levels are mezzanines).
At the garage level, the building is
96.56 m long and 54.00 m wide (in
the curved part) and 28.40 m (in
other areas). At ground level the
dimensions of the left segment are
43.6x52.0 m and 42.5x21.0 m for
the right segment.
The height of the underground
garages varies (in the top levels of
ceilings) from 3.76 to 4.61 m. The
height of the commercial part
changes from 2.98 m to 3.83 m.
The foundation plate is 100 cm thick
in the residential part and 80 cm in
the courtyard (with local thickening
in the column areas and
passageways). The exterior garage
Model of the building (MGM Konstrukcje Inżynierskie)
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walls are reinforced concrete Model of the building (MGM Konstrukcje Inżynierskie
with a thickness of 25 cm. 5 floors of every segment are
The underground floor located at designed as masonry walls from
the garage level is designed entirely silicate blocks.
as a monolithic slab with a slab-
Individual dwellings are separated
column system, with deep beams
by non-load-bearing masonry walls
used as columns.
from silicate blocks. The balcony
Reinforced concrete walls were and loggia slabs on residential
introduced at the entrance area of
floors are 18 cm thick.
the garages and work as stiffeners
The stairway walls are made of
in the vehicle traffic area –
reinforced concrete with a thickness
staircases and lift cores, as well as
of 20 to 25 cm.
separating the technical facilities.
The flights of stairs which run
The internal reinforced concrete
throught all floors are designed as
walls are generally 25 cm thick, no
two flights with 18 cm thickness for
less than 20 cm. The thicknesses of
the landings and stairs.
the lift core walls is 15 cm.
Each segment of the structure is
The aboveground floors are
rigid because of the combination of
designed as a combined slab-wall
the reinforced concrete walls that
system. At the ground floor, the
separate dwellings and the
system is complemented with
reinforced concrete walls of the
columns. All floor slabs are
vehicle traffic areas of the parking
designed as monolithic reinforced
garage.
concrete slabs.
At the ground floor level there are
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slabs designed with a thickness of
22 cm in the commerial part and 30 participated in the structural design:
cm over the parts of the garage
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which extend beyond the outer
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walls of the aboveground structure.
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The structural
system for the
residential part is
a slab-wall
system.
Where it was
possible, the
load-bearing
walls on the last