SHANGHAI

TOWER,CHINA

Submitted by -
Arindam Jain (06)
Charu Oswal (08)
Juzer Ali (15)
 INTRODUCTION
• Location – Shanghai, China
• Construction started - 29 November 2008.
• Height
Architectural height - 632 m.
• Number of stories - 128 (including 5
basement levels).
• Total floor area – 3,80,000 m2.
• Building purpose - Separate zones for
office, Retail and Hotel.

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BUILDING BACKGROUND
• The tower is located in Lujiazui district, in Pudong, and
is considered one of the leading financial centers in East
Asia. Gensler Company designed the tower through an
international multi-staged design competition.
• The tower is considered one of three distinct buildings
that present the past, present and the future of Shanghai
city.
• The design was inspired by Shanghai traditions, and its
spiraling form presents the dynamic emergence of
modern China. The tower is 632 meters height with 121
storeys.
• It vertically divided into 9 functional zones, each zone
rises 12 to 15 floors with a public space balcony within
curtain walls.
• The lowest ground zone occupied by an open market
that connects the tower with the surrounded activities
and Shanghai’s Metro, whereas the podium zone
involves stores and restaurants.
• The offices occupy the middle zone while the hotel was
placed in the top with the observation deck .
• The construction of the building started in 2009 and it is
predicted to be opened in 2015.

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 STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
 Thornton Tomasetti, structural engineer, has designed a
simple, safe and cost-effective structural system that
permitted the creation of an innovative architectural
form.
 The building has been divided into 9 separate zones
along its height which are separated by 8 strengthening
floors in between.

• COMPONENTS
 Core Wall Inner Tube System

 Outer Mega Frame System

 Super column system.

 Floor System

 Foundation System adopted for the Tower

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 CORE
Core Wall Inner
Tube System
 The central core wall of the tower
is not uniform throughout of its
height instead it changes as one
rises.
 At the bottom of the building, the
core wall inner tube consists of 9
cells which forms a 30 m×30 m
square. This shape goes up to
zone 4 level.
Shanghai Tower
Outer Mega Composite Super
Frame System Columns
 8 super columns along  The super columns are composite structure
with 4 corner columns with concrete-encased steel vertical
 Radial trusses, and sections.
 Box belt trusses two-  There are four paired super columns – two
story-high. at each end of each ortho normal axis
Floor System
columns
 The floors are designed as a composite deck which
have profiled steel sheets as the permanent bottom
formwork for the reinforced concrete slabs.
Radial
trusses Foundation System
 Super-long bored piles have length larger than 50m
and slenderness ratio more than 50 were used.
Box belt
trusses  831 reinforced concrete bore piles
 more than 61,000 cubic metres of concrete
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SHANGHAI TOWER GEOMETRY
• The flowing spiraling form of the tower was generated
from a rounded triangular plan.
• This rounded triangle was derived from the relationship
between the curved bank of Huangpu River, Jin Mao
Tower, and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
• This attractive and distinctive form will be a milestone in
Shanghai city for representing China as a global financial
power.

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 DESIGN
• Unique design of the double wall function has it’s own identity at the ground floor.
• The tower is divided into nine zones each with 12 –15 floors.
• The tower takes the form of cylindrical building stacked at the top each other, having total 121 floors, all enclosed by the inner layer of the glass
façade.
• Between that and the outer layer which twists as it rises, nine indoors zones provide public space for visitors. Each of these nine areas has its own
lobby, providing 360 degree views of the city.
• The tower is able to accommodates as many as 1,60,000 people on a daily basis.

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DESIGN CONSIDERATION
Horizontal Profile:
It is shaped as an equilateral triangle with smooth edges Vertical Profile:
derived from two tangential curves. There are two variables
that shaped the profile: The radius of the large circle and its It is modeled by tapering
location to the center of the equilateral triangle. the ground horizontal
profile with the upper
one, which resulted a
right circular cone. The
taper operation supported
the function of the
building. The wide lower
profile afforded wide
spans for the market and
offices, whereas the
slender upper plans
provided short spans for
the hotel.

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PLANS

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 ELEVATIONS
• The Shanghai Tower is a mega tall skyscraper in
Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, It is considered the
second-tallest building in the world after Burj
Khalifa.
• The height of the tower is 632 meters. It consists of a
124-storey tower, a 7-storey podium and a 5-storey
basement.
• The tower has a 5-storey basement, and its
foundation depth is 31.4 m.
• The thickness of the raft under the tower is 6 m and
the area of the raft is 8945 m2. The raft
of Shanghai tower is supported by 955 bored piles
with a diameter 1.0 m.

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STUDY OF ELEVATOR SYSTEM
• The Chinese skyscraper now officially has the world's
fastest elevator, tallest elevator in a building and the
fastest double-deck elevator.
• The building has been divided into 9 separate zones
along its height which are separated by 8
strengthening floors in between.
• 9 different lifts for 9 different zones.
• Speed of lift is 20m/s.
• Standing at 2,074 feet (632 meters) tall, a fast lift was
always going to be necessity for the tower.
• Installed in July, the Mitsubishi Electric-designed
elevator travels at an incredible 20.5 meters per second
(67 ft/s) -- faster than Usain Bolt can run (40 ft/s), but
slightly slower than a cheetah (95 ft/s).
• Visitors are whisked up to the building's viewing tower
by the lightning fast elevator, from where they have
unrivaled views of the Bund.

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 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE OF
PROJECT
• Shanghai Tower´s construction started on November of
2008,topped out in 2013
• The exterior was completed in summer 2015,and work was
considered complete in September 2015.
• Although the building was originally scheduled to open to
the public in
November 2014, the actual public-use date slipped
considerably.
• The observation deck was opened to visitors in July 2016;
the period from July through September 2016 was termed
a "test run" or "commissioning" period.
• From April 26, 2017 onwards, the sightseeing deck on the
118th floor is open to the public.

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 STUDY OF MECHANICAL FLOORS

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MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST WIND LOADS
• Why this shape? Gensler’s design
team anticipated that three key
strategies—the tower’s asymmetrical
form, its tapering profile and its
rounded corners—would allow the
building to withstand the typhoon-
force winds that are common in
Shanghai.
• Using wind tunnel tests conducted in a
Canadian lab, Gensler and structural
engineer Thornton Tomasetti refined
the tower’s form, which reduced
building wind loads by 24 percent.
The result is a lighter structure that
saved $58 million in costly materials.

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MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST WIND LOADS

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MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST SEISEMIC LOADS

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SKETCHUP MODEL SHOWING BUILDING
ENVELOPE

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