3. INTRODUCTION
Takenaka Corporation, Japan proposed the concept of
“VERTICAL CITIES”
A futuristic tower, called the X-Seed 4000 has been
designed as an ecological structure of about 4000
meters high in Tokyo, Japan!
Solar Energy would power the X-Seed 4000 which
could house between 500 000 to 1 million people. The
projected cost of a building like this has been
estimated between 300 to 900 billion dollars.
6. DEFINITION :
A vertical city ,true to its name, is a very tall
mixed use development combining offices, a 5-star
hotel, luxury residential and serviced apartments,
an experience centre and observation facilities
along with a special sky function space creating a
vertical community of over 15,000 people.
7. Contents
1. Case study: Nakheel Tower
2. Structure
3. Architecture
4. Materials for construction
5. Environmental Aspects
6. Hindrance
7. Conclusion
9. Nakheel Tower
Nakheel Tower in itself will be a vertical city,
accommodating residents in an efficient LEED rated,
sustainable building.
This is the world’s first true,very tall mixed use
development combining offices.
The global architecture practice believes that the
design for the 270 hectare masterplan and more than
1 kilometre-high tower will provide the centrepiece for
the future of Dubai's development.
12. STRUCTURE
Building Form
To gain an adequate footprint for stability, the
tower extends to nearly 100m in diameter,
resulting in a 10:1 aspect ratio.
A central void space in the tower pushed all of the
usable area to the perimeter.
4 quadrant approach –independent and redundant
building systems of all kinds-structural,
mechanical, electrical, fire egress, fire safety etc.
13. At every 25 levels,the
tower legs are bound
together by sky bridges.
•Four distinct means of exiting during emergency
•Functioning as communities
•As a belt truss
•Lift zones
•Delineate the different uses of the building
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14. STRUCTURE
Structural Form
Maintain a uniform distribution of load throughout
the structure.
Elements are sized based on strength
considerations, while at the same time providing
sufficient lateral stiffness.
Materials perform double-duty (gravity and lateral
support).
Multiple load paths are created to give added
redundancy and by placing material only where it is
required for strength.
15. STRUCTURE
Primary Structural Elements
Drum Wall,analogous with a typical building’s
central core wall.
Hammer Walls spring outwards to engage the
structure at the perimeter.
Fin Walls spring inward primarily to support the
core area
Link Walls tie the Drum Wall segments together
17. STRUCTURE
Wind Engineering
The slots serve to mitigate the vortex-shedding
Cut into 4 towers
Wind passes freely through the buiding thereby
reducing the resistence.
19. STRUCTURE
Logistics
Serviced by 156 lifts using double-deck and
express lifts
Delivery is via remote loading and docking.
Internal lift shafts are to be used for construction
lifts
Use of pre-assembled components
20. STRUCTURE
Stack Effect
A warm building in a cold climate behaves like a
chimney
Problems occur during hot weather, with the
pressure gradient operating in reverse.
The pressure created by stack effect causes air
infiltration into the building at the high level,
resulting in energy loss and loss of capacity of
HVAC systems
21. Measures to mitigate Stack Effect
Provide anti-
rooms
Revolving doors
Isolating docks
Multiple stages to
entries
Pressure control for goods
access
22. MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION
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Overall weight of the structure should be less.
For the Nakheel Tower, concrete in excess of 100MPa
strength is required with Young’s Modulus of nearly
50,000MPa.
Work on the concrete design was undertaken during
schematic design.
Total volume of concrete will be 500,000 m3
23. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Water
Energy
Materials
•Water conservation is by black water
treatment, storm water harvesting and reuse
of fire test water.
•Thermal wind generator farms will be set to
create all the energy that would be needed.
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•Use of high performance facades to low
energy use servicing
25. SOME STAGGERING FACTS
• All of the reinforcing bars laid end to end could stretch from Dubai
to New York (1/4 of the way around the world)
The building experiences five different microclimatic conditions
over its height
The temperature in the atmosphere at the top of the building can
be as much as 10 degrees cooler than the bottom
Due to the high speed shuttle lifts one may be able to see the
sunset twice from the bottom and again from the top of the building
The goal is to achieve the highest LEED certification
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26. SOME OF THE TALLEST BUILDINGS
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29. THE BURJ DUBAI
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When completed next year it
will be the tallest man-made
structure in the world and the
tallest building by a long shot
with a predicted height of 818m