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How to design supertalls
Telling the story of structure
With nearly 80 years of experience in integrating architecture and engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) work remains groundbreaking, especially when it comes to designing supertalls.
Besides addressing the question of “how high can you go as well as the issues of efficiency and economy this fourth volume of the DETAIL engineering series presents the theoretical background of SOM’s structural group. On the basis of a variety of projects with their general structural concept or their specific details the book explains the process of finding corresponding solutions. These solutions illustrate the company’s core values: simplicity clarity hierarchy efficiency and continuous reseach.
In addition the projects – from James Turrel Skyspace to Burj Khalifa – are also placed in the context of SOM’s work as a whole using anecdotes from a number of other well-known SOM projects as John Hancock or Sears Tower. This volume considers how to find new structural solutions as well as how materials can be used innovatively to create “next generation” buildings.
- Iconic architecture as a result of structural solutions: From Sears Tower to Burj Khalifa
- New structural solutions: Form-finding of tall buildings
- The process of simplifying: Showing the essence of the structure
- Tall and economic: Key issues for efficient design of high-rises
144 pages with a large number of drawings and colour photographs / 23 x 29.7 cm / English
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