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The Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea is a 555m tall skyscraper that took 7 years and $3.4 billion to build. It has 123 floors above ground and includes a luxury hotel, shopping mall, observation deck, offices, cinema, aquarium, and the world's largest indoor theme park. Special adaptations were needed for its foundations and structure to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, including outriggers, a diagrid steel frame, and 600 sensors for structural health monitoring.

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The Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea is a 555m tall skyscraper that took 7 years and $3.4 billion to build. It has 123 floors above ground and includes a luxury hotel, shopping mall, observation deck, offices, cinema, aquarium, and the world's largest indoor theme park. Special adaptations were needed for its foundations and structure to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, including outriggers, a diagrid steel frame, and 600 sensors for structural health monitoring.

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Lotte World Tower

By: Parneet Badesha & Kathryn Wan


Description

❖ Is a 555m-high Skyscraper
❖ Location: Seoul, South Korea
❖ Cost: 3.4 billion (USD)
❖ Construction started: 2011
❖ Took 7 years to build; opened April 2017 for the public
❖ Used as a luxury hotel, shopping mall, observation deck, office
space, cinema, aquarium and many other facilities
❖ Tallest in South Korea, 5th tallest building in the world
❖ It has the world’s highest glass-bottomed observation deck
❖ Has the World’s Largest Indoor Theme Park

Courtesy of thetowerinfo.com
Design
❖ 555m-high (1,820ft)
❖ 123 floors above ground, 6 floors below
❖ Includes world’s fastest and longest
double-decker elevator (can carry 54 people Courtesy of ohfacts.com
from 1st floor to 121 floor in less than 1 min,
speed of 10m/sec)
❖ Designed by: Kohn Pedersen Fox (an American
architecture firm)
❖ Design based off of the various traditional
Korean artforms of ceramics, porcelain and
calligraphy.

Courtesy of Medium.com
Foundations
Construction Material:

- Core: Reinforced Concrete


- Columns: Concrete Encased Steel
- Floor Spanning: Steel
❖ Soil underneath composed of soft + hard rocks - could
support the building weight but contained fault and
shear zones
❖ to prevent settlement added ground strengthening
piles (1m diameter)
❖ sand cushion installed at upper part of piles to separate
from the (6.5m thick) mat foundation
❖ The foundation supports 750,000 tons of the vertical
weight of the building
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Adaptations
❖ Outriggers and belt trusses that act like joints of bamboo installed every 40
floors to transverse the pressure of a typhoon and/or earthquake
❖ A diagrid structure from the top which joins the steel frame like a mesh to cope
with the pressure of a typhoon and/or earthquake without additional support
❖ Concrete barrier wall (thickness 1m and depth 27m) put into the bedrock around
the building
❖ A core wall and 8 mega columns to support the towers vertical gravity
❖ Has a “Structural Health Monitoring System” which manages the structural safety
of the tower; it monitors the risks of typhoons, earthquakes, etc. It includes more
than 600 sensors and a measuring system to check the health of the building in
real time
Courtesy of lwt.co.kr
Citations (For Information)
“Challenges and Opportunities for the Structural Design of the 123-Story Jamsil Lotte World Tower.” CTBUH, 2016,
global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/2504-challenges-and-opportunities-for-the-structural-design-of-the-123-story-jamsil-lotte-
world-tower.pdf.

“Engineering & Technology ㅣ LOTTE WORLD TOWER.” Engineering & Technology ㅣ,


www.lwt.co.kr/tower/en/towerStory/technology.do.

“History ㅣ LOTTE WORLD TOWER.” History ㅣ, www.lwt.co.kr/tower/en/towerStory/history.do.

“Lotte World Tower Facts and Information.” The Tower Info Skyscrapers & Urban Adventures,
thetowerinfo.com/buildings-list/lotte-world-tower/.

“Lotte World Tower, Seoul, South Korea.” Design Build@2x, 24 Sept. 2020,
www.designbuild-network.com/projects/lotte-world-tower-seoul/.

“Lotte World Tower.” The Skyscraper Center, www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/lotte-world-tower/88.

See, SawTeen, et al. “Structural Innovations of Lotte World Tower.” STRUCTURE Magazine, www.structuremag.org/?p=11393.
Citations for Images
Doongle. “Lotte's World: Record Breaking Adventure in Seoul.” Medium, Medium, 5 July 2019,
medium.com/@doongle/lottes-world-record-breaking-adventure-in-seoul-c713b95acc60.

“Engineering & Technology ㅣ LOTTE WORLD TOWER.” Engineering & Technology ㅣ,


www.lwt.co.kr/tower/en/towerStory/technology.do.

Keerti. “15 Interesting Facts About Lotte World.” OhFact, 20 Feb. 2019, ohfact.com/lotte-world-facts/.

“Lotte World Tower Facts and Information.” The Tower Info Skyscrapers & Urban Adventures,
thetowerinfo.com/buildings-list/lotte-world-tower/.

“Lotte World Tower.” The Skyscraper Center, www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/lotte-world-tower/88.

Mahiques , Myriam B. Lotte, Korea's First Supertower, 18 Dec. 2011, 8:08 AM ,


myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2011/12/lotte-koreas-first-supertower.html.
Thank You!

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