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Anand Saurabh
521/05
Architectural Thesis:10thsem_2010
Bachelor of Architecture
National Institute of Technology
Patna

1. INTRODUCTION
2. SITE ANALYSIS
Site in context of world
Site in context of India
Site in context of Hyderabad
Site Location Plan
Site Feasibility Plan
Site Access & View
Site Plan(zoning)
Site Plan (Norms)
Site Contour Plan & Details
Site Photographs
Climate of Hyderabad
3. CASE STUDY
I .PLANET GODREJ
General Information
Location Plan
Site Plan
Vehicular movement
Entertainment Zone
Facilities
Floor Plan
Stack Diagram
Service
Elevation Study
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4. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
5. LITERATURE STUDY
I. TURNING TORSO
General information
Architectural concept
Structural concept
Steel spine
Floor Plan
Construction Photos
Conclusion
6. DESIGN CONSIDERATION
Fire Saftey
II. THE IMPERIAL TOWER
Refuge Floor
General Information
Mechanical Floor
Location Plan
Facade
Area Chart
Wind consideration
Facilities & landscaping
Pinnacle Design
Construction Photo
Recent Photo
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Intrroduct ion
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Signature Tower is a proposed 90 floors skyscraper at Lanco hills,
hills hyderabad , which will
be used for residential purpose.
•Lanco Hills is one of the world’s largest mixed development projects. Designed to change the very skyline of Hyderabad.
•Lanco Hills is planning an unique world within, offering convenient access to homes, premium office spaces, breath-taking
vistas, landscaped gardens, entertainment, hotels, leisure and shopping in one destination.

Residential towers: - Signature tower of 90 level high being the one of the world tallest
Site:- Manikonda village,
Site: village residential tower & surrounded by 16 towers up to 30 level high.
Hyderabad(Andhra Pradesh) Club house:‐ Four home theatres, a world-class spa and gym, with an Olympic-sized swimming
Type and use:- Residential(for signature pool, party areas, multi-cuisine restaurants, well-appointed suites for guests, children’s library, play
tower) areas, outdoor games area are some of the features.
Developers: Lanco Group
Developers:- 5 star deluxe hotel
Area:-100 acres IT Park
Cost of the project:-5500 crore Business Class Hotel
2 Office Tower
Serviced Apartment
Mall

In this short interval of 4 months, it would be a herculean task to design all the proposed buildings. So, I would confine myself
while designing the following:
•Site plan of Residential zone
•Detailed Drawing of Signature Tower

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A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building.

•There is no official definition or height above which a building may
clearly be classified as a skyscraper even a building of 80 meters
(262 feet) may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes above its
built environment and changes the overall skyline.
The tallest building symbolizes national prestige in the form of
•The
economic status, growth, technological prosperity and modernity.

•The size of skyscrapers allows for high-density work and

Why Skysc raper

W
living spaces, reducing the amount of land given over to
human development
•Mass transit and commercial transport are economically and
environmentally more efficient when serving high-density
development than suburban or rural development.

•The total energy expended towards waste disposal and

climate control is relatively lower for a given number of
people occupying a skyscraper than that same number of
peoplel occupying
i modernd housing
h i

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•Today Skyscraper are the place where business can stand

&world growing population can find home.
•Skyscraper is icon for the city, community or entire
country.
•Hong Kong(china) has over half the top 100 high rise
buildingg in the world i.e. height
g over 200 m.

•India is most populous country after China which has a

population of more than 1,000,000,000 residing over a land
area of around 2,973,190
2 973 190 sq
sq.km.
km

Rank Building City Country Height Floors Built

1 Burj Khalifa Dubai UAE 828 m 2 717 ft
2,717 160 2010

2 Taipei 101 Taipei Taiwan 509 m 1,671 ft 101 2004

Shanghai World Financial

3 Shanghai China 492 m 1,614 ft 101 2008
Center

International Commerce
4 Kowloon Hong Kong SAR, PRC 483 m 1,584 ft 118 2009
Centre

5 Petronas Tower Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 452 m 1 483 ft

1,483 88 1998

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List Of skyscraper in India

Year of
Towers Location height Floors
completion
249 metres
Imperial Tower I Mumbai 60 2010
(817 ft)
Imperial 249 metres
Mumbai 60 2009
Tower II (817 ft)
181 metres
t
Planet Godrej Mumbai 51 2009
(594 ft)
193 metres
Ashok Towers 1 Mumbai 49 2009
(633 ft)

180 metres
RNA Mirage
Mi M bi
Mumbai 40 2009
(591 ft)

Oberoi Woods 170 metres

Mumbai 40 2009
Tower (558 ft)

APIIC(Andhra Pradesh State Industraial Corporation)

is planning to make a compact bussiness distric like
N manhattan.

APIIC has initially proposed to build 60 floors twin tower. Teams were sent to study the petrona &
sears tower. Based on their report , a single trade tower of 90 floors with surrounding 16 towers
upto 30 floors was approved.
approved

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Site analyysis
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•Hyderabad is the capital and the most populous

city of the South india State Andhra Pradesh.
•It is known as the "City of Pearls" and the
"City of Nizams".
•Hyderabad has developed into a major hub for
the Information technology industry in India.
on Plaan

•The cit
city has been
bee classified as an
a A-1
A 1 city
cit ini
terms of development priorities, due to its size,
population and impact.
At present , the 16 storey Babu khan Estate,
•At
Locatio

built in 1987 is the tallest commercial building

followed by 13 storey haj house in hyderabad .
Site Distance from:
from:-
L

Samsabad Airport - 30 km
Begumput Airport - 18 km
Railway Station - 21 km
Hitech City - 5 km
Golconda Fort - 12 km
N Charminar - 20 km
Hussain Sagar - 14km

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N
Feasibi lity P lan

Distance from:‐
Samsabad Airport
Begumput Airport
Railway Station
Hitech City
F

Golconda Fort
Charminar
Hussain Sagar

IT sectors & other Office area are located within a radii of 5 km.

Luxurious residential tower at Lanco hills offers ‘Walk to work culture’ for nearby IT sectors, far from old city
traffic & congestion.
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Access to site is through:-

•80’ wide Mumbai road(NH9)
A CCESS & VIE WS

•150’ wide Jawahar lal nehru

expressway
•Lanco group constructed a 50’ road
for access to site.
•80’ Road is proposed from site to
mumbai road(NH9)

This tower will have view of Hitech city at N, golconda fort at SE, wipro, infosys, financial distric etc at NW
due to virtue of its height.

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246 m

206 m

75 m

Site Area =100 acres(18 million sq ft.)

Cost = 5500 crore

Residential zone=22 acres

Area for Signature tower=1.6 acre
(As per Zoning of lanco groups)

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Height of building:- 680 m from mean sea-

level (600 m from ground) is approved

F.A.R. – no restriction
Set Back –16 m from all side

Fire Saftey Norms:–

•generally follows N.B.C.
NBC
N •Fire floors (Refuge Floor) with fire retard
elements.
•G.B. Menon ( fire advisor for government of
Signature Tower India) is cosultated for this project.

ATKINS is consulted for wind load on signature tower.

JJACOB
. consultancyy is consulted for flight
g path
p of world planes
p

Architects :- Abhi Kalpan(Mumbai) – for master planning

DP Architect- Singapore

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The city lies in the Deccan Plateau and rises to an average

height of 540 m above the sea level
The city lies at 17.366
17 366° N latitude and 78.476
78 476° E
longitude.

The city’s soil type is mainly red sandy with areas of black
cotton soil.
N

•Hyderabad is blessed with a unique landscape –

spectacular rock formations which are about 2,500 million
Hyderabad falls in the seismic zone-I and is seismically least
years old.
exposed
p to earthquakes.
q
Th isi barely
•There b l any vegetation
t ti att th
the site
it

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Climate of Hyderabad

•The average temperature in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India is 25.9 °C (79 °F).
Th average temperature range isi 12 °C.
•The °C
•The highest monthly average high temperature is 40 °C (104 °F) in May.
•The lowest monthly average low temperature is 15 °C (59 °F) in December.
y
•Hyderabad,, Andhra Pradesh's climate receives an average
g of 764 mm (30.1( in)) of rainfall pper year,
y , or 64 mm (2.5
( in))
per month.
•On average there are 81 days per year with more than 0.1 mm (0.004 in) of rainfall (precipitation) or 7 days with a
quantity of rain, sleet, snow etc. per month.
Th driest
•The d i weatherh isi iin JJanuary when
h an average off 2 mm (0
(0.11 iin)) off rainfall
i f ll ((precipitation)
i i i ) occurs across <1 days.
d
•The wettest weather is in July when an average of 165 mm (6.5 in) of rainfall (precipitation) occurs across 19 days.
•The average annual relative humidity is 47.3% and average monthly relative humidity ranges from 27% in March to
70% in September.
p
•Average sunlight hours in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh range between 3.6 hours per day in July and 10.2 hours per day
in February.
•There are an average of 2877 hours of sunlight per year with an average of 7.9 hours of sunlight per day.

Hyderabad has a tropical wet and dry climate. The city is extremely hot in summer with temperature reaching 40 degrees Celsius.
Winters are mild and pleasant while it is cool and breezy during the monsoon season. The monsoon rains lash the city between June
& August and accounts for most of the city’s annual rainfall i.e. approx 90 cms.

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Cli matic Grap h

Of Hydeerabadd

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Sun PPath DDiagraam
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•It will be beneficial to orient the building in a way that the

North facade ggets maximum exposure
p and West side are
protected from other buildings/building elements or trees.

The plots/buildings should be laid in a way that the longer

•The
facade face North.

BUILDING RECIVING RADIATION

Top view 3d view

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V i bl
Variable I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII

Insolation,kWh/m²/
4.88 5.70 6.29 6.64 6.40 5.02 4.43 4.31 4.69 4.88 4.88 4.65
day

Clearness, 0 ‐ 1 0.62 0.65 0.64 0.63 0.60 0.47 0.41 0.41 0.47 0.54 0.60 0.62

Temperature,°C 23.56 26.16 29.78 30.28 31.76 28.60 27.06 26.75 26.83 25.78 24.47 23.16

Wind speed,m/s 2.60 2.92 2.91 3.29 3.97 4.84 4.68 4.41 3.14 2.67 2.79 2.70

Precipitation,mm 3 6 13 20 35 104 174 165 184 90 19 6

Wet days, d 0.3 0.4 0.8 1.6 2.3 7.7 10.5 10.2 8.4 4.9 1.5 0.4

PPredominant
edo i a t wind
i d direction
di ectio is from
f o east to west
est and
a d west
est to east in
i the city.
cit So the bbuilding
ildi blocks sho
should
ld be laid iin the
way that there is enough passage for movement of East-West wind.

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CASE STUDY

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Casee Studd y ( Planet Godrej )

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Planet Godrej
Simplex Mills,
30 Keshavrao Khadye Marg,
Sant Ghadge Maharaj Chowk, Mahalaxmi,
Mumbai ‐ 400 011, Maharashtra, India.

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Design
•Designed by Singapore based DP Architects
•Standing 48 stories tall
•This five‐tower skyscraper is a stunning example
of modern design.
•The architectural layout of Planet Godrej ensures
that each apartment has open views from every
side of the building.
•The design of the towers will ensure that Planet
Godrej remains a landmark for years to come.

No. of Stories – 48 + 2 + 1
Architects – DP Architects, Singapore
Location – Mahalaxmi, Mumbai
Total area – 45.202 acres.
Built up area ‐6.5 lakh sq ft;
Cost‐ Rs 200 crore

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Location study
Proximity to site…..
1. The front view overlooks the Racecourse and the deep blue of the Arabian Sea.
2. The exquisite Haji Ali Mosque and other landmarks are also in sight from each apartment.
3. The rear view is equally remarkable and offers a glimpse of the Mumbai Zoo as well as, of the ocean and islands
beyond.

1. Planet Godrej is ideally located

in the heart of Mumbai.
2. Its location offers quick access
to all the major landmarks of
South Mumbai.

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The tower is actually five towers of 51

stories connected together, and are
marketed as:

Celesta,
Strata,
Electra,
Electra
Aqua and
Terra –

which I presume are being named after

what the developer feels modern day
subjects of the Roman Empire would
presumably call the base elements.

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Ve h i c u l a r movement
1. Visitors Parking
2. Entrance lobby
3. Drop off point

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Recreational zone

Children’s play area

Featured Fountain

Lawn
Palm Grooves
Featured Arch Wall
Timber Decking

Deck
Club House

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Landscaping and Facilities in tower
1. There are open areas for residents to relax and unwind.
2 A swimming pool
3. a children’s pool and
4 play area.
4. area
5. Tennis courts,
6. a squash court,
7. a basketball court,
8 a badminton court,
8. court
9. a modern gym, and
10. a clubhouse.

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Planning
• Built area 6.5 lakh sq ft
• Parking ‐2 basement & ground Level.
• 2 floors
fl off entrance
t lobby.
l bb
• 47 floors of livable space
with 264 Apartments

The Apartments
• 2 bedroom,
• 3 bedroom,
• 4 bedroom
• duplex and
• penthouse apartments.

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Stack Diagram
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Built up area ‐6.5 lakh sq ft;

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Services.
1. Piped Natural Gas provision.
2. Well‐designed lobbies.
3. Each tower is serviced by 3 OTIS High speed
automatic lifts.
4. An elaborate fire fighting system with smoke
alarm and wet risers as per CFO norms.
5. Ground level covered car parking.

•Marble / Granite / Granamite in common areas, Lobbies etc.

•Kotah on staircases.

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Elevation study
Voids to counter balance the wind effect

•External Finishes: Weather Shield / Sandtex or equivalent.

•WINDOWS: Powder coated / anodized Aluminium Glazed windows.

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Casee Studd y ( The Imperial Tower)

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The Imperial Tower

BB. B.
B Nakashe Marg,
Marg Tardeo,
Tardeo
Mumbai ‐34, Maharastra

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Facts about the building

1. The towers are built

i on former
f slum land where the current re‐development
model of builders providing free land and rehabilitation to slum dwellers in
exchange for rights for property development, was
first put into practice on a big scale.
2 Th
2. l hi h endd residential
The towers are ultra‐high id i l towers .
3. The Imperial offers sea‐views by virtue of its height, and a resort‐like gardens
and fountains on top of theparking‐structure podium, with hanging gardens that
mask the structure itself.

Architects – Hafeez Contractor & Associates

Developers ‐ Shapoorji Pallonji & Co Ltd./SD Corporation's
No. Of Stories – 60 (Each 249 m High)

cc a s e  s  t u d y 
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Location study
Surrounding area of "The Imperial" include :
1. Mumbai Central Railwayy Station is located jjust 0.4 kms awayy from the pproject.
j
2. The Villa Theresa School, Bombay International School and New
Activity School are within 10 minutes driving distance
3. Ruia Girls College, Bhavan's College and Wilson College are within 2 kms
4. The Bhatia General Hospital,
p , JJaslok Hospital
p and Cumballa Hill
Hospital & Heart Institute are all within 1 km radius.
5. The Crossroads mall and Heera Panna Shopping Centre are located within 0.5
kms

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Area chart of building

•It includes construction of 14nos.
14nos Of rehabilitation
buildings of G+10/14/16/21 comprising of around
2100 flats.

•Each tower consists of 8 podium floors of

car parking.

•3 floors of lavish entrance lobby.

lobby

•49 liveable floors with 122 flats.

•Service floors at lvl 10-11, 18, 29, 45, 54 -55.

•56-57, 58-59 & level used for sky deck &

communication purpose

•Recreational facility at 23‐25 lvls.

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Landscaping
• The
Th IImperial
i l offers
ff sea‐views
i by b virtue
i t off its
it height
h i ht

•A resort‐like gardens and fountains on top of the

pparking‐structure
g ppodium,with
, hanging
g g gardens
g that mask
the structure itself.

Facilities
• Indoor Swimming Pool
• Fully‐equipped health club & spa.
• Mini Theatre
• Restaurant
• Badminton & Squash Courts
• Children's Play Area
• Landscaped Garden
• 8 high speed lifts

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Pinnacle design
•Pinnacle is designed to signify the height & grandeur of
tower.
•It’s podium height is 5.3 ms
•Steel
Steel pyramid of 14.8
14 8 ms
•N top steel pinnacle of height 7.3m
•Total height of 27.4ms.
•Used as lightning conductor & can be used as telecom
towers.

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Construction photos
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Literaturee Studd y ( Turning Torso )

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Turningg Torso
o so
Malmo, Sweden

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Lite raturee Studdy ( Turning Torso )

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Architect :- Santiago
g calatrava
• no of floors – 57 Facts
• basement – 2 • Location : Malmo, Sweden
• height – 190.4 mts • Height: 190 m
• 9 cubes of 5 floors each • Stories: 54
• each floor: 1.6 deg • building : mixed use
• each cube: 10 deg • 1st to 2nd cube :commercial space
• 3rd to 9th cube: residential space
• 147 luxaryy apartment
p ranging
g g from 45sqm
q to 190 sqm
q
• cost : 235million US$

materials
ate ials
• concrete core-shear walls
• concrete floor slabs
• steel spine
p

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architectural concept

• designed to look like a turning human body

• nine vertically stacked cubes
• twisted 90 degrees from bottom to top
• steel
t l spine
i twists
t i t along
l withith the
th structure
t t
similar to spine and ribs of the human body

Johnny Örbäck, former CEO of the Turning Torso

contractor andd BBoardd Ch
Chairman
i off the
h Malmö
Ml ö
branch of the co-operative housing association HSB,
saw the sculpture in 1999 and contacted Calatrava
to ask him to designg a buildingg usingg the same
concept.

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The central core is supported by a foundation

slab, while at the corner of each floor is a concrete tube core ,r =10.6 mts
concrete column supported by a pile foundation.
concrete floor slab 1ft thick concrete perimeter column
The Torso's exoskeleton is effectively a steel cantilevered from the core
truss erected on the outside of the building
with the same clockwise rotation as the tower
steel spine pin
itself. connected

Three
Th ee hi
high-speed
h s eed lifts in
i the core
co e of the building
b ildi
service these apartments. They travel at 5m per
second, so it only takes 38 seconds to get from
gground level to the 54th floor.

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steel spine
• as exoskeleton for the structure
• reduces wind displacement
• acts as a reinforcing truss
• consists of 20 horizontal and 18 diagonal members known as cigars

lateral load transfer

steel spine

perimeter
i t walls
ll

cantilever floor slabs

central core

foundation

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concrete pperimeter
column

vertically continuous perimeter

walls

concrete floor slab

cantilevered from core

circular hallway

concrete core

glass and aluminium

facade
17 mts

Typical floor plan

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C
Construction
i process
• self climbing slip forms
• steel spine erected using air-driven winches
• steel treated with special anticorrosive paint

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Conclusion
• example of a structure where steel exoskeleton is used as an
efficient lateral bracing mechanism
• central core in concrete is the main element responsible for
transferring vertical loads towards the foundation.

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D E S I G N C O N S I D E R AT I O N
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The design and construction of skyscrapers involves creating safe, habitable spaces in very tall buildings.
The buildings must support their weight, resist wind and earthquakes, and protect occupants from fire.
They must also be conveniently accessible, even on the upper floors, and provide utilities and a comfortable climate for the
occupants.

Fire Safetyy
Fire Detection System
•Automatic Fire detector
•Smoke detection
•Fire alarm

Fire Control System

•CO2 suppression system
•Portable fire extinguisher
•Sprinklers
•Smoke Control Installation
•Fire hydrant

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Fire Safety
Fire Stamp High Sprinkler Riser-used in staircase

Stair Pressurisation :- Its purpose is to limit smoke migration into the main egress route.

lobby Pressurisation :- Relative safe area of refuge for occupant on the floor of fire origin.

lobby Extraction/Smoke Spill System

Signage

P blic Add
Public Address
ess SSystem
ste & Occupant
Occ a t Intercommunication
I te co icatio

Alarm Sequence

Emergency power

Halogen based Fire fighting system

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Refuge Floor lanco Hills_Hyderabad

•Refuge floor is specially designed in high-rise buildings for the purpose of supplying a temporarily safe place for
evacuees under emergency situations.
•Under building code of Hongkong, china, australia etc, the provision of refuge floor has been a indispensible element
of high rise building design .
•Wind induced cross ventilation is an important design criterion of refuge floor , since it helps to prevent any
smoke entering to become persistent state remained (logging) on the refuge floor.
•Refuge floor should be provided at 20-25 stories .
•There can be no occupied accommodation or accessible mechanical floor ,except fire
services water tank & associated fire safety installation plant room ,at
at the same level
level.

•Vertical shaft passing through a refuge floor shuldn’t open directly on floor .

•O these floor
•On floo , Steel plates
lates underpin
de i the co
concrete
c ete floo
flooring.
i

•All the element and structural members is given a fire rating of 4 hours.

•In some tall building, refuge floor take the form of commercial sky garden.

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Mechanical Floor/Mechanical ppenthouse/Service Floor lanco Hills_Hyderabad

•Mechanical Floor contain electric generator, chiller plant, intermediate water

tanks & pump ,lift pit upper floor elevator & lift machine room for lower level
elevator.

•This layout of mechanical floor reflect the internal vertical zoning of elevator.

U ll the
•Usually h WWater pump hhave enoughh power to bby pass a llevell .IfIf the
h pump at
particular mechanical floor failed ,the pump can send water two level up .

•This floor requires

q external vents or louvers for ventilation & heat rejection..
j

Mechanical floor generally consisted of two floors & can be used

for additional stabilizer element such as tuned mass damper.

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Mechanical Floor/Mechanical ppenthouse/Service Floor lanco Hills_Hyderabad

•This floor requires external vents or louvers for ventilation & heat rejection.
•Maskingg vent can be done byy complex
p wall angle
g ((Petrona tower),), intricate
lattice cladding(Jin Mao Bldg) or non glassed section that appear to be
ornamented(Tapei 101).

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Mechanical Floor/Mechanical ppenthouse/Service Floor lanco Hills_Hyderabad

Upper level mechanical penthouse contain communication devices & window washing
equipment & designed as simple box on roof or concealed inside a decorative spire.

sto made
•Custom
•C ade BBuilding
ildi Maintiance
Mai tia ce Units(BMU)
U its(BMU) is used
sed for
fo cleaning
clea i Facade of
Burj Dubai. Its take 2 to 3 month to clean whole façade
•a horizontal track has been installed on the exterior of Burj Khalifa at levels
40, 73 and 109.

Pinnacle window washing unit is used for cleaning Facade of

petrona tower.
tower

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Facade lanco Hills_Hyderabad

•The fresh air is supplied via ventilation units placed in

front of the floor slabs. The air is conditioned separately
on every storey and blown into the rooms.
• The exhaust air is extracted through the façade cavity
and exhausted either directly via ventilation units or first
drawn through a heat exchanger.

•Stainless steel glass cladding.

•Custom made shading device is used on facade

reflective glazing, and aluminium and textured stainless steel

spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins are used .

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S
Structural
l consideration
id i for f wind
id
Critical issues for design of high rise building in a region prone to significant wind & seismic effect typically
i ld
include:-
• High base overturning and foundation design.(wind, seismic)
• High shear capacity requirement near base.( seismic)
• High
g gravity
g y stress in vertical element(( usingg high
g tensile materials)) to minimize structural size for economic
structural design and to maximize net floor area.
• Development of ductility of elements at the base of structure under high compressive gravity stress. (seismic)
• Controlling lateral acceleration (wind) by shape of building.
• Controlling
C lli Storey
S drift.
d if
• Ensuring ductile energy dissipation mechanism and preventing brittle failure.

•Shape of building to minimize wind load.

40 wind
•40 i d tunnell test iis conducted
d d to confirm
fi the
h shape.
h

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