CCTV HEADQUARTERS, BEIJING , CHINA.
CCTV Headquarters
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: Rem Koolhaas
Engineer：Arup
Completion date: May 16,
2012
Floor Count: 51
Floor Area: 389079 m2
Height: 234m (768 ft)
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Design Concept:- External Structure System
Diagrid Frame System (Continuous tube system)
Design Issues: A. B. C. D.
•Instability due form: The building
form: the continuous loop, sloping
tower and cantilever overhang add
the complexity of structure
•Instability dude to weight: dead load
caused by steel structure
A. Edge structure
Site Issues: B.12m*12m diagrid structure
•Beijing is an earthquake zone
•Shallow subsoil condition C. Stress distribution structure
•High Settlement risk
•Large amount underground water D. Combined structure
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Diagrid Frame System Diagrid Frame
•Triangulate structure with diagonal
support beams
•Triangles connected at Nodes and
Rings intersect the nodes
•Combines a hollow tube with a truss
•Loads follow diagonals, gravity and
lateral loads can be transferred by the
system to the ground
•Steel is typical because of high
tensile and compressive strengths
•Essentially marrying columns,
diagonals and bracings into one
system
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Load Transfer
•Load transfer happens primarily Advantages:
through diagrid • Structurally very strong
a)Internal Cores will transfer minimal • Less material required (~20% reduction in steel as opposed to typical moment
amounts of gravity loads frame method)
b)Floor Slabs do not have to transfer • Aesthetically Pleasing – Blends in together with façade
lateral loads • Floor plan becomes open and free – more internal space
c)Less internal columns required = • Most forms can be created with a triangulated form– architectural freedom
more space • Self-reliant structure, simple in shape
d)Floor plates do not have to be of • Simple Construction Technique
the same shape on each floor • Skyscraper Structural Failure minimized by diagrid construction
•Continuous and Uninterrupted Load • Better ability to redistribute loads than a moment frame (Failure of one portion does
Transfer not mean complete structural failure)
•Rings help to resist Buckling Loads
transforming whole system into one
big tube
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Diagrid System Connection Details
Connections – Butterfly Plates
•The meeting of vertical columns,
diagonal members& perimeter beams
at nodes
•Butterfly plates will be welded to
bring all these 3 members together
•Enabling the vertical and horizontal
elements to remain comparatively
unstressed in an earthquake
•Critical Members in the Structural
System
•Must ensure a “strong joint-weak
member” system
•Must resist maximum probable load
from braces with minimum yielding
and stress concentration
•Butterfly plates used to assist smooth
load transfer
•Finite Element Analysis of
Connection
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Diagrid System Connection Details
Node construction
•In-place steel shop welding
•Lifting up piece by piece
•Trial shop assembly of parts with
high strength bolts
•In-place welding
•High strength bolts assembly
•Setting up perimeter girders
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Internal Structure System Column Types
Different types of concrete column are also used to reach their maximum carrying
Columns capacity.
•The Columns mean to transfer load
from the top to the foundation level
•Vertical internal tube structure results
different configuration for every floor,
some of those columns are needed to
transfer the load to transfer trusses
Transfer Trusses Vertical Core
•Transfer Trusses are used for •make each floor a specific spatial
the large open space such as configuration
studios and facilities •Making stability of overall system
•Connecting internal core and
exterior tube structure
horizontally
•Connecting columns Vertically
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