EARTHQUAKE

RESISTANT
BUILDING
PRESENTED BY
22BAR003 - Abhay Jaryal
22BAR020 - Gopender
Gautam
22BAR025 - Jatin Thakur
22BAR043 - Sahil
PETRONAS
TWIN TOWER

The Petronas Towers are two very

tall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
They were the tallest buildings in the world
until 2004, but still remain the tallest twin
buildings. Each tower has 88 floors and
they are connected by a sky-bridge
between the 41st and 42nd floors. It is a
commercial office building
HOW ITS STRUCTURE RESIST EARTHQUAKE

This structure system is a coupled structural system by outer tube

around the exterior and the inner core (can be a concrete core wall or
a steel-framed tube) is called a tube-in-tube structure. The inner
braced core and the outer tube are normally connected through
the floor diaphragm; in certain occasions, they are connected
through outriggers. They work together to resist lateral loads such as
the earthquake and wind. They are also part of the gravity-resistance
system.
GEOGRAPHICAL CLIMATE GRAPH OF
KUALA LUMPUR ,
LOCATION AND MALAYSIA
CLIMATE

LOCATION

PETRONAS TWIN TOWER IS SITUATED IN KUALA

LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
Disaster Prone to

The inner braced core and the outer tube are normally connected
through the floor diaphragm; in certain occasions, they are
connected through outriggers. They work together to resist lateral
loads such as the earthquake and wind. They are also part of the gravity-
resistance system.
STRUCTURE

The two towers are connected

through a sky bridge. The foundation
of the tower was constructed using
104 concrete piles; the towers sit on a
large concrete raft. The structural
system of each tower comprises a 25
m × 25 m central core and an outer
ring of widely spaced 16 cylindrical
super columns.
FORM
MATERIAL
The building is built primarily in concrete. Most of the
structural members are made with high-strength concrete.
High-strength concrete was used in the central core, perimeter
columns, perimeter ring beams, and outrigger beams. The two
towers are connected through a sky bridge
DESIGNE
ELEMENTS

The design of each tower floor plate is

based on simple Islamic geometric
forms of two interlocking squares,
creating a shape of an eight-pointed
star. Architecturally, these forms
represent the important Islamic
principles of unity, harmony, stability
and rationality.
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