SHANGHAI
TOWER
The Vertical City
Apoorva Mudgal 11110013
Ujjwal Vasisht
11110057
Project Facts
Site
Location : Lujiazui Finance and
Trade Zone,
Pudong district,
Shanghai, China
Area :
30,370 sq. mts.
Tower
Height :
632 meters
Stories :
121 occupied floors
Area : 380,000 sq. mts. above grade
141,000 sq. mts. below grade
Program : Office, luxury hotel,
entertainment, retail, cultural venues
Project Facts
Podium
Height : 36.9 meters
Stories :
5 stories above grade
Area : 46,000 sq. mts.
Program : Luxury retail, bank, restaurant,
conference,
meeting, banquet functions.
Below grade
levels will be house
retail, 1800 parking
spaces, service and
MEP functions.
Team Information
Owner, Developer, Contractor
Shanghai Tower Construction &
Development Co., Ltd.
Design Architect
Gensler
Local Design Institute
Architectural Design & Research Institute of
Tongji University
Structural Engineer
Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineer
Cosentini Associates
Landscape Architect
SWA
Architectural Design
Shaped to reduce wind loads
Genslers design team anticipated
that three important design
strategiesthe asymmetry of the
towers form, its tapering profile,
and rounded corners would allow the
building to
Withstand typhoon wind forces
Minimize reflection and glare
The result is a simpler and lighter
structure with unprecedented
transparency and a 32 percent
reduction of costly materials.
Drag Reduction
After testing more than a dozen models
in a Toronto wind-tunnel lab, Gensler
arrived at the most effective shape for
the tower, a tapering spiral with a
rotation of 120 degrees; a deep notch
running its length interrupts the wind as
it swirls around the building. Together,
the features reduce wind loads by 24%,
which meantless steeland concrete
were needed to stiffen and strengthen
the building itself, saving $58 million.
Zoning
The vertical city is comprised of nine
vertical zones, each 12-15 stories high.
Each zone is encircled by public space
within a double-skin faade. Separate
elevators shuttle people among zones,
and below-grade parking links via
walkways to the nearby super-high rise
towers.
Structural Design
A fast-tracked super-high rise tower
The structure had to respond to
A windy climate
An active earthquake zone
Clay-based soils
The Crown
The Shanghai Towers crown will of course
encourage visitors to enjoy the
unparalleled views of Shanghai, but it will
also direct gazes towards the inner
workings of the building itself and provide
glimpses of
wind turbines
a rain water collection system and
two types of dampening systems:
aTuned Mass Damper (TMD)with Eddy
current damping applied.
Rows of vertically aligned wind
turbines and a spiraling parapet
that is integral to a rainwater
collection system.
Fastest Elevators
The building holds numerous
world records, most notably for
the fastest single-deck and
double-deck elevators ever
constructed.
The Shanghai Tower will have
several single-span elevators that
travel from the ground floor to
the observation decks at the top
of the building. These elevators
will be pressurized and will travel
at 40mph, making them the
fastest in the world.
Laser Precision
The Gensler team positionedlaserson adjacent
buildings to triangulate the 20,327 points where
exterior panels would be installed.
Construction
A fast-tracked super-high rise
tower
Soil conditions in Shanghaia claybased mixture typical of a river delta
meant supporting the tower on 831
reinforced concrete bore piles sunk
deep into the ground.
Gigantic composite super columns
measuring
5 x 4 meters at the base and
reinforced with steel plates that
weigh 145 metric tons each, that will
provide structural support for the
tower. To carry the load of the
transparent glass skin, Gensler
designed an innovative curtain wall
that is suspended from the
mechanical floors above and
Sustainable Tower
Central Strategy
A central aspect of the design is
the transparent, second skin that
wraps the entire building. The
ventilated atriums it encloses
conserve energy by modulating
the temperature within the void.
Location and Transportation
Ramps linking East Ying Chen Zhong
Road and Lu Jia Zhui Huan Road into the
lower parking levels at Basement 2, save
up on a lot of transit energy.
Sustainable Tower
Building Envelope
The buildings two curtain walls
create atriums that act like an
insulating blanket, reducing energy
costs.
Used indoor air is circulated through
each atrium to temper the space,
keeping the suns heat out in
summer and the buildings heat
during winter.
Sustainable Tower
Landscaping
One-third of the site will be dedicated
green space, with extensive planting to
lessen the heat island effect of paved
areas.
Efficient irrigation systems, combined
with xeriscaping, reduce overall water
consumption.
On each zone's main floor, between the
inner core and the wraparound glass wall,
are three atria, up to 60 feet wide and 14
stories tall. These 21 indoor parks, visible
from outside the tower, will feature local
vegetation and trees that will provide
fresh air and help regulate the building's
temperature.
Sustainable Tower
Daylighting
Continuous glass skin admits light
into the atriums, reducing the need
for artificial lighting. Floor-to-ceiling
glass in the office and hotel floors
yields similar benefits to those
spaces
Sun-shading
To reduce both heating and cooling loads,
both inner and outer walls will have a
spectrally selective E-coating.
Fritted glass on the outer wall provides
additional sun-shading, aided by
horizontal ledges at each floor level that
will block the higher summer sun.
Sustainable Tower
Building Controls
Intelligent building controls that
lower energy costs by monitoring
and adjusting systems such as
heating, lighting, cooling,
ventilation, and self-generated
power.
Wind Turbines
270 wind turbines at the top of the
building will power the exterior lighting
for the building and park areas. The
turbines will produce an estimated
54,000 kWh/year in renewable energy.
Sustainable Tower
Regional Materials
The team seeks out building
materials which are harvested and
manufactured within an 800km
radius of the site.
Cogeneration system
The 2,200kW natural gas-fired
cogeneration system provides electricity
and heat energy to the low zone areas. In
addition to providing site-generated
power, the system produces 640 tons of
refrigeration during the cooling season
and heat during the winter months.
Shanghai Towers sustainable
strategies will reduce the
buildings carbon footprint by :
34,0
00
Shanghai Tower is targeted
Shanghai Tower is
to
targeted to
reduce water consumption
reduce energy
by:
usage by:
metric tons
per year
40% 21%
Shanghai tower :
A High Tech building?
Structural expressionism
Functionality
Dynamism
Celebration of the process
Transparency, Layering and Movement
Bright flat coloring
Modular build
Clip-on construction
Scientific estimation
Add-on : Sustainability
Throughout construction, Winey would
periodically ask, "How are we going to
build this?" He wasn't being rhetorical.
Because of the tower's twisting design,
builders had to identify where each panel
in the outer glass wall would go before it
could be fabricated, and traditional
measuring techniques couldn't achieve the
necessary precision. "There wasn't a day
that didn't go by that I didn't learn
something," Winey says.
