Location：

Location-
Area： Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China
Architect- Gensler
Architectural composition：
Site Area- 30370sq. m. (7.5 acres)

Height- 632 m (2,073 ft)

Main Tower：
Floor count- 121
Floor area- 410,000 above ground and
166,000sqm underground
Program- Offices, Luxury Hotel, Entertainment,
Podium: Retail and Cultural Venues

Height- 38m：
Owner / Developer
Floors- 5 floors above groud
Area- 60,100sqm
Shareholder： Luxury retails, Bank, Restaurant,
Facilities-
Conference and meeting halls, Banquet Hall.
Underground levels are house retail and MEP.
Parking- 1,800 parking spaces.
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 China’s first super high-rise to exceed 600
meters
 It is a vertical city and a mixed-use structure,
with office space, a hotel, exhibition halls
and both business and tourism
functionalities.
 It gradually spirals with 120 deg. Inclination.
 Its curved façade and spiraling form, symbolizes the dynamic
appearance of modern china.
 The building strictly adheres to green building design standards.
Building employs various green building techniques and a high
greening ratio of 33%.
 Together with its neighbours, the 420-meter Jinmao Tower and
the 492-meter Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai
Tower and its graceful spiralling design completes the urban
triumvirate.
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DESIGN CONCEPT

The wind tunnel test is used to find the

most beneficial scaling factor of about
55% and rotation at 120°, which is
account for the 24% savings of the
Wind load working on the structure.

The concrete core acts with outriggers

and supercolumns are the advances
science of super-high rises.

Shanghai tower embodies a new concept

of super-tall building by emphasizing public
spaces at the atrium levels.

There are two lays of skin wrapping the

entire building. The atriums created by the
skins features as an insulation which keep
the temperature stable.
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Shanghai tower's
program is organized
into 9 vertical zones.

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Vertical fin-like truss Two-way truss Octagonal
steel frame bracing system • Curtain Wall System
• Main Structure System

CENTRAL MEGA FLOOR PLATES INNER SKIN OUTER-WALL SECOND SKIN

CORE COLUMNS STRUCTURE
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Inner Cylindrical Tower
• Core
• Outrigger
• Mega Frame: Super column system
and belt trusses
• The lateral and vertical resistance of
the tower will be provided by the
inner cylindrical tower.
• The primary lateral resistance is
provided by the core, outrigger, and
supercolumn system.
Inner Cylindrical Tower
one story-
radial truss Core wall
two stories- Diagonal corner column
outrigger
Super column
truss

Additionally, there is asky lobby composed of adouble curtain wall at the

Belt truss
bottom of Zones 2-8. There is atotal of 21full-floor sky lobbies in the
building with transparent visions and panoramic city views, providing asafe
and comfortable work and social environment.

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 Core of the zone 1 and
basement
shear wall: steel plate and
Section of Super-column
concrete combination

Section of Supercolumn System: two at each end of each

super column orthonormal axis four diagonal supercolumns
Section of super along each 45-degree axis
7-8 zone column 1-6 zone
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  The main part of the core-tube is a 30 m by 30 m square RC tube. The
thickness of the flange wall of the tube at the bottom is 1.2 m, and the
thickness decreases with the height of the tube and reduces to 0.5 m at the
top. Similarly, the thickness of the web wall decreases from 0.9 m at the
bottom to 0.5 m at the top.
 According to the architectural functional requirements, the four corners of the
core-tube are gradually removed above Zone 5. Finally, the core-tube
becomes X-shaped at the top.
 The mega-column system consists of 12 shaped-steel reinforced concrete
columns with a maximum cross-sectional dimension of 5,300 mm×3,700
mm.
 8 mega-columns extend from the bottom to the top of the building, and the
section size gradually reduces to 2,400 mm×1,900 mm at the top.
 The remaining 4 columns are located at each corner and only extend from
the ground floor to Zone 5.
 The outrigger system, located at the mechanical stories, consists of circle
trusses and outriggers with a total height of 9.9 m. All of the components of
the outriggers are composed of H-shaped steel beams.
 Four element types are used in this model: the spatial beam elements used
for the external frames and outriggers, the multi-layer shell elements used for
the shear walls and the mega-columns, the truss elements used for the rebar
and the shaped-steels, and membrane elements for the floor slabs. The
details are described in the following subsections.
 The tower’s form was refined using wind tunnel tests, which ultimately
Additionally, there is asky lobby composed of adoublereduced
curtain wallbuilding
at the wind loads by 24 per cent. The tests pinpointed a 120-
bottom of Zones 2-8. There is atotal of 21full-floor skydegree
lobbies in rotation
the as optimal for minimizing the wind loads.
building with transparent visions and panoramic city views,
Theproviding asafe
on 831 reinforced concrete bore piles sunk deep
and comfortable work and social environment. into the tower is supported round.

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 • Soil Condition Sandy
• Foundation System silt
Soil condition and test pile
• Soft soil area Fine sand
• Groundwater Silt
buoyancy Sandy silt
90%(practical design Silt
considerations 80%
of water buoyancy) Silty clay Section
Silt
• Select ⑨2 layer
Load of Supercolumn and Core
containing gravelly
coarse sand layer, as
pile bearing stratum

Foundation System
• Piled raft foundation Excavation
• Diameter 121 m, 6 m • Tower foundation pits
thick reinforced area of 11,500
concrete circular square meters and a
platform depth of about 31
• Boredthere
Additionally, is apile
pile, sky lobby composed of adouble
length meters curtain wall at the
bottom of Zones 2-8. There is atotal of 21full-floor sky lobbies in the single
• Non-beamed
56m in the core area,
building with transparent visions and panoramic city views, providing asafe
52m in the
and comfortable extension
work and social environment.
building pit0
area
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PILES
• Staggered pile arrangement in
load concentrated area 56m length in core area,
staggered 52m length in
• Orthogonal shaped pile others, Orthogonal
arrangement in other area 52m length in s-column
area, staggered

Piles Plan

• Raft thickness is determined by the strength of anti-

punching, and then check the flexural strength
Additionally, there is asky lobby composed of adouble curtain wall at the • 6m thickness(3.7m of Dubai Khalīfa tower)
bottom of Zones 2-8. There is atotal of 21full-floor sky lobbies in the • Variable Stiffness Design to control Settlement
building with transparent visions and panoramic city views, providing asafe • Variable Stiffness iterative method to calculate the
Settlementwork
and comfortable of Uniform
and social environment. Settlement of Variable
stiffness design Stiffness Design resulting of pile stiffness after the amended merger
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Additionally, there is asky lobby composed of adouble curtain wall at the
bottom of Zones 2-8. There is atotal of 21full-floor sky lobbies in the
building with transparent visions and panoramic city views, providing asafe
and comfortable work and social environment.

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 21%
DAYLIGH SUNSHADING BUILDING CONTROLS COGENERATION
TING
energy cost
reduction

LOCAL ENVELOPE LANDSCAPING WIND TURBINES

MATERIALS

45 34,000
metric tons per year
● Wind turbines at the top of the turbines reduced carbon footprint
building power the exterior lighting
54,000
• 40% water reduction
● The geometry saved $58M in • 178,000,000 million gallons kWh/year
structural materials
●
of water per year saved
One degree of rotation on each floor • 425 Olympic sized swimming power production
● Right amount of twist and taper pools
sheds wind loads Shanghai Tower is one of the most sustainably advanced tall
● Allowed for makes the building more buildings in the world—designed to achieve both LEED® Gold
efficient 24%; less 32% reduction certification and a China Green Building Three Star rating
• Additionally, there is a sky lobby composed of a double curtain bioclimatic integrated water & new regional
wall at the bottom of Zones 2-8. There is a total of 21 full-floor design waste management benchmark
sky lobbies in the building with transparent visions and
panoramic city views, providing a safe and comfortable work low energy & sustainable integrated
and social environment. low carbon materials landscape
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The inner glass, part of the
buildings façades, uses 14 percent
less glass than a building occupying
the same area but in a square
design.
The glass façade minimizes energy
consumption.
By having two skin layers forming
the building façade the Tower
creates an asymmetrical surface that reduces wind loads acting on the
building.
Water treatment plants recycle grey water and storm water for irrigation
and toilet use.
A 38 % water consumption reduction is achieved by having interim water
storage tanks distributed within the tower allowing the water pressure to
be maintained by gravity.
Shanghai Tower has two chiller plants, strategically located, in the
building reducing energy required to pump chilled water.
On-site power is generated by wind turbines located directly beneath the
parapet.
Building is designed to save 21.59% in annual energy costs.
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