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The Lotte World Tower is a 555m skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea that took 7 years and $3.4 billion to build. It has 123 floors above ground and is the tallest building in South Korea and 5th tallest in the world. The tower houses a luxury hotel, shopping mall, observation deck, offices, cinema, aquarium, and the world's largest indoor theme park. Its design and extensive engineering adaptations allow it to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, including outriggers, belt trusses, and a structural health monitoring system.

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The Lotte World Tower is a 555m skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea that took 7 years and $3.4 billion to build. It has 123 floors above ground and is the tallest building in South Korea and 5th tallest in the world. The tower houses a luxury hotel, shopping mall, observation deck, offices, cinema, aquarium, and the world's largest indoor theme park. Its design and extensive engineering adaptations allow it to withstand earthquakes and typhoons, including outriggers, belt trusses, and a structural health monitoring system.

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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 from 1st floor to 121 Courtesy of ohfacts.com

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.

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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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