O 14 TOWER I Dubai UAE I
Hot air rises up
2010 STACK EFFECT
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Mechanical
Between the plane of floor
floor plate and exterior wall ‘s
Project info openings each slab is set back
by 1m from wall
Completed
floor area Each floor is connected
= 31400 MSQ
differently to the exterior wall
TYPE = Commercial 8
at its diagonal grid by tongues
Structure = Concrete, steel, glass extending through 1m gap. Ground floor Plan
Architect = Jesse Raiser Lmt.
Height = 102 m, 23 storey 30 connections Per floor as
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counted.
102m
This 1m gap is responsible for
stack effect in building. Slab connection to Exoskeleton
Exoskeleton
This is a natural component of
cooling system for O 14 tower.
STRUCTURAL DETAIL
The Exoskeleton-sunscreen wall is creating diagonal grid to
1326 Openings Architectural OVERVIEW CONSTRUCTION enable its use both as gravity and lateral support.
Podium floor Plan
The sizes and location of openings were carefully co-
Office tower typology has For perforated Exoskeleton, O14 ordinated in order to make wall effective in channelling both
Flat plate 8 been turned inside out. has uses a slip form technique : the loads.
system with 9 Structure and skin have Modular steel concrete forms are The central core is also supporting both gravity and lateral
flipped . used then moved along building loads through shear walls in addition to Exoskeleton from
thickness of Unlike curtain wall axis. another side.
200mm- towers floor plates are Holes are achieved from CNC The mechanical floor are designed with heavier load
7 thinner to act only for polystyrene void-form into the possess slab of thickness 400mm .
300mm. vibration and span . reinforcement matrix of shell For floor system, flat plate slabs were used which spans 7-
Parking Parking Shell’s deliberate lack of around which the slip forms are 10.5m .
co-ordination with floor constructed. This idea was adopted to provide column free flexible
1m gap plates confuses legibility Then super liquid concrete is cast. spaces for office unlike typical office interiors.
between floor
Pressure slab with thickness 1-1.8m and scale . Refer fig-3 . Basement Plan
slab edge and Double skin facade regulates the
exterior shell. building’s temperature through stack
SCOA- B.arch
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effect of moving air. White coating
reflects most of the sun rays. OFFICE SPACE
3 stories
Shell thickness = 60cm till 3rd floor and
Podium from 3 40cm above .
sides of tower.
Openings modulate according to the
structural requirements, views, sun
exposure.
SHELL Largest opening - 8.3 m
4TH Yr. DIV-A
I Smallest opening- 1.4m Podium is designed for transferring the loads.
Compression
These diagonal grids of shell act as 2
load path to concrete .
3 stories podium is structurally
independent of the tower supported
by 9 interior columns .
Reinforcement
I Also, a 164 ‘ Truss spanning the
Shear entire width of site.
R.N-13
Glazing 1m away from Exoskeleton
5 4 3
4 ‘ deep ring beam
follows irregular
outline of shell wall.
PRERNA BHARTI
Vertical loads are
transferred through 4
levels of basement
core.
Shell is continued till ground floor to maintain Podium is attached to Exoskeleton CNC Polystyrene void-forms
Pressure slab with thickness 1-1.8m Harmony from tongues popping out
