MARSHALL STRABALA

DESIGN DIRECTOR - GENSLER

ARCHITECT SEMINAR PRESENTATION

RAHUL SHARMA
B.ARCH IV
Career
1961 Born in Seattle, U.S.
1988 - Graduated from Harvard
University
1988 Joined Skidmore Owings and
Merrill (SOM), Chicago
1996 - Joined Gensler global
architectural firm as Director of Design

Honors
Burnham Prize of Chicago Architecture Club
American Institute of Architect Honor Awards
(2004, 2005)
ASHRAE Excellence in Engineering Awards
(1998, 1999)
USITT Architecture Award (2001).
Philosophy
A Performance Designer
Rather than clinging to a particular style, Strabala views his designs
more in terms of their function.
Style is an odd thing, mostly a category of time. I seek a timelessness
in all my projects. I want to create a feeling of permanence over a
particular style.

He looks at every project with fresh eyes and a point of view that will
allow constant discovery and continued improvement.

Every element of the building needs to perform two purposes. It

integrates art and science, aesthetics and function, technology
and beauty and knowledge and perception.
There may be newer and faster computer tools and modeling systems to
visualize building designs, but the ultimate tool that will create buildings
is the human mind.

Got inspired by small Japanese and Korean architects, including

Tadao Ando of Japan.
Projects
Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter super-tall office, residential and retail
tower in Shanghai, China, scheduled for completion in 2014.
Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building at 808-meters
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, a 420-meter office, hotel retail
and apartment complex to be completed in 2009.

Besides Strabala has designed more than 50 prominent buildings

worldwide

LG Kangnam Building, Houston Ballet, Houston, Discovery Tower, Houston,

Seoul, South Korea, 1997 Texas, 2011 Texas, 2010
 Case Study - Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China, 2008-2014

Marshall Strabala got this project for

his firm GENSLER after a 21-month-
long competition ended in
March 2008, when he beat out
Foster + Partners, Kohn Pederson Fox,
and even his old firm, SOM.

632 metres (2,073 ft), have 128

stories, and contain an area of
380,000 m2.

It will be the tallest building in China

and is slated to be the second tallest
in the world.

Tower features office space, luxury

residences, a high-end hotel, retail
space, restaurants and a public
observatory.
 Shanghai Tower,
2014
Of the Future
(Gensler)
Tower features a soft triangular
shape, the tower rotates as it Shanghai World
Financial Centre,
goes skyward and concludes 2008
with an open-top design. Of the Present
(Kohn Pederson
Fox) Jin Mao Tower,
Of2008
the Past
(SOM)
As the shape rises, a "strike" or
open notch curves up and
around the building which is an
engineering feature to control
the wind up and away from the
building.
central core mega floor plates inner skin outer-wall second skin
columns structure

Uses 32 35% less structural materials ( concrete and steel ) than any other
conventional buildings. It results in savings of 58million US$
Double skin Building
With the double skin , the
building will function like a
thermos bottle.
This allows it to

harvest and use daylight,

reduce artificial lighting to a

minimum,

increase the insulation of the

building's interior

reduce energy consumption

and energy costs.
The development will be
separated into eight distinct
bioclimatic zones, with each
having its own atrium, lush gardens,
indoor air controls and panoramic
360 views of city.

The building will be

situated within a
10,000 sqm open
green space that will
become both a public
park and the front
entry to the tower.
Sustainability

Innovative skin technology is one of many

sustainable design and renewable energy
systems in the tower.
The spiral shape facilitates vortex shedding
and creates an asymmetrical surface to
reduce wind loads on the building by 24%.
reducing the structural load on the building.
The buildings spiraling parapet collects
rainwater, used for the towers HVAC
systems.
Wind turbines located directly beneath the
parapet generate on-site power. Thus energy
consumption of building is 35-40 % less than
any other conventional building.
40% less water consumption
i.e. they save 675 million L/ annum =
245 Olympic size swimming pools
Thank You