YUQING ZHAI ARCH655 PROJECT1

SHANGHAI TOWER

DESCRIPTION

Architect: Gensler
Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Architectural: 632m
Floor Count: 121
Location: Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai

The construction of the Shanghai Tower was started in November 2008 and attains its structural height in 2015.
At present, the tower is the tallest building in China which is 2nd tallest in the world. The building is the tallest of a group of three adjacent super tall buildings in Pudong. It is a super tall building with architectural height of 632m.

Shanghai Tower is a mixed use sustainable building with tiered construction. The building has been designed for high energy efficiency which provides multiple separate zones for office, retail and leisure.

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

First Part - Base Floor

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Using one point and rotate to create three same circle, then creating a small which tangent with them.

2.

Using line to connect the intersection point and midpoint to create three small same circle.

3.

Diving small circles and connecting (3pt Arch) some points to form the floor plan.

4.

Merging the arch and gap line to finish the final floor plan.

Second Part - Tower

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5.

Generate a "Series" of number,(6000 floor height and 121 floor number), and the list of number is convert by Unit Z.

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Rotating this building and the rotations stars from 0 to 0.75. Each plane's rotation angle id controlled by "Construction Domain".
The rotated plane will also be scaled form bottom floor to top floor with ScaleNU. It will be scale by a series of numbers which gradually be reduced by the interval - 0.005, 121 times.

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Then loft and cap the model.

Third Part - Floor Plate

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Seperating the floor plates into 9 parts, and choosing the base plate of each part (by using list item), then extrude and cap them.

Fourth Part - Roof

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