Skyscraper Basics

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for sources
How Many Are There
Where Are They?
Skylines
World’s Tallest
New York’s Tallest
Tallest Hospital Use
History
• Excel Sheet
• On Web
Statistics
Building Design
• Petronas Towers
– Cesar Pelli
– Kuala Lumpur
– World’s tallest for
several years.
What that created
Site Plan
• Complex
• Axes
• Circulation
Ground Level
• Complex
• Irregular
• Parking!
• Circulation
Tower Plan
• Rotate Squares
• Triangles
Many Studies
• Efficiency
• Circulation
• Views
• Daylight
• Elegance
Elevation
• Relationships
• The Bridge
– Gateway
– Functions too
Structure
• Loads
– Wind
– Gravity
• Motion
– Deflection
– Twisting
– Differential
Elevators
• Essential
• Expensive
• Complex
– Motion
– Speed
– Waiting time
Details
• Thousands
• Coordination
• Usual Steps
– Idea
– Develop
– Detailed
– Shop Dwg
Construction
• $$$,$$$
• BIG
• Complex
• Scheduled
• Changes
Finished
Discussion
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more about from this presentation?
– Write a sentence or two about why
• Be prepared to tell the audience
Sources
Not credited = Public Domain or ©James E. Mitchell (may use with credit)
Slide Image
http://www.the-forum.com/ephemera/empire.htm
1 Empire State Bld
(repeated)
1 1896 Comparative http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/historical/Tall_Buil
dings_1896.jpg
Buildings
1; 12-23 Petronas Tower Sketch – Pelli, Cesar & Crosbie, Michael J – Petronas Towers – Wiley
Academy, New York 1991
and all other Petronas
Tower images
2-9 Emporis.com http://www.emporis.com/en/