Hello!
Well this past 2 weeks has been very stressful! Today was my first official
meeting with my committee in regards to my thesis, which is a natural disaster
resistant high-rise residential tower. In today’s blog, I would like to share
some of what I presented to my committee with you.
Site Location (image 1)
- The site location is in Miami,
Florida, on an island west of Miami Beach (displayed on the top right).
- The lot, highlighted in orange,
consists of 196,456 square feet and is surrounded by water. The image on the
bottom right is a view from the site looking south while the image above that
is looking north.
Site
Analysis (image 2)
- Within the site, the dominant
prevailing winds are coming from the East-South-East. All the views within the
site are excellent, but dominant views are towards the North-east.
Project
Statement & Building Diagram (image 3)
- To the right is a
building diagram explaining some of the approaches I am wanting to take.
- Due to zoning
regulations, the structure will be limited to 24 stories.
- It will incorporate 2 & 3 bedroom
apartments, with a restaurant on the top floor open to both the residents of
the tower and the public.
- The first floor is
going to be designed to resist flooding. Above the 1stlevel will begin the
apartments.
- I wanted to
incorporate an outdoor community space for the residents somewhere within the
tower.
- One approach I am
taking to decrease the lateral forces of wind is to take the prevailing winds
through the building.
- The structure of
the tower is going to be composed of an all steel system because steel has an
ability to bend rather than break, with the shape of the building taking some
sort of curved approach to better direct the wind.
- Another idea I had
was to incorporate a mechanical metal shutter system that would could close
cover all openings within the structure in the event of a hurricane
Program (image 4)
- On the left is the
program that will be used to design the tower. It’s not 100% complete yet
because I am waiting to develop a building footprint in order to come up with
the accurate square footages for the restaurant portion of the program on the
top floor.
- The right image is
the affinity matrix I developed to study how all the spaces interact with each
other.
Case Study #1 (image 5)
- The first case
study I looked at that dealt with taking wind through a building was the Pearl
River Tower in Gaungzhou, China.
- 1,014-foot-tall
tower includes ducts shaped to vent prevailing winds. The inlets exploit a
pressure differential across the tower, causing a 20-feet-per-second wind to
rush through them at 23 to 30 feet per second to generate energy for the building.
Case Study #2 (image 6)
- The next case study
I looked at was the Wuhan Greenland Center located in Wuhan, China.
- Obviously this
structure is a lot taller than mine, but the same concept could be applied to a
smaller scaled version.
- Apertures allow air
to pass freely in and out of a two-to-three-story-high segment of the
double–curtain wall that rings the tower, relieving wind loads by three to ten
percent.
- The tower also incorporates
smooth corners equipped with vents, and a domed top to reduce wind resistance.
- These last 3 sheets
I have are conceptual diagrams showing how spaces relate.
- This is the 2
bedroom apartment program with a rough layout on how the spaces could be
organized.
3 Bedroom Apartment Program (image 8)
- The 3 bedroom
apartment is basically the same as the previous 2 bedroom apartment but with an
additional bedroom, bath, and walk-in—closet.
- The goal is to
incorporate a private balcony into every unit.
Restaurant Program (image 9)
- The last sheet I
have for you is the restaurant conceptual diagram which illustrates customer
and staff circulation within the various spaces.
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