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The document discusses the architectural style of high-tech architecture, which emerged in the 1970s and incorporated elements of industry and technology into building design. It is characterized by exposed structures, usually of steel and other metals, as well as services like pipes and ducts in bright colors. Lightweight materials like steel and glass are also used. Two examples of high-tech architecture are given: Willis Tower in Chicago, which pioneered bundled tube construction, and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, which uses a triangular structural framework to reduce steel usage. Cross braces and exposed supports are important design elements in high-tech architecture.

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Hi Tech Architecture

The document discusses the architectural style of high-tech architecture, which emerged in the 1970s and incorporated elements of industry and technology into building design. It is characterized by exposed structures, usually of steel and other metals, as well as services like pipes and ducts in bright colors. Lightweight materials like steel and glass are also used. Two examples of high-tech architecture are given: Willis Tower in Chicago, which pioneered bundled tube construction, and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, which uses a triangular structural framework to reduce steel usage. Cross braces and exposed supports are important design elements in high-tech architecture.

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Hi-tech architecture

Introduction
 High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or
Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in
the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and
technology into building design.
 High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism.
 This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-
modernism ; there remain gray areas as to where one category
ends and the other begins.
Background

 Buildings in this architectural style were constructed mainly in


North America and Europe.
 It is deeply connected with what is called the Second School of
Chicago which emerged after World War II. The main content is
the construction, mostly with steel and glass, is expressed in a
formal independent way to gain aesthetic qualities from it.
Characteristics

 Exposed structures (usually of steel and or other metals)


 Services (pipes, air ducts, lifts etc.) often picked out in bright
colures , a smooth, impervious skin (often of glass)
 Light weight material (steel , glass)
Construction
techniques
 Tensile structures, cross beams, and exposed support and
maintenance elements are all important components found in
high-tech designs.
 A focus on strong, simplistic, and transparent elements all connect
high-tech as a style to the principles of engineering.
The structural members of
building are not hidden
from the outsiders.
Every part is visible.
Steel frames are used not
only as structural members
but also as aesthetic
members .
 Location: Chicago, Illinois
Example 1  Site area: 3 acres
WILLS TOWER  Building area: 4,565,844 sq.ft.
 Height: 1450 ft, 1730 ft including twin antennae
 Number of stories: 110
 Architect and Structural engineers: SOM (Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill)
 Year of construction: 1974
 Building use: Commercial + office
Materials
Structural steel
Cladding : black aluminum structure
and bronze tinted vision glass
panels
Structural system
Tube construction
Internal support columns and
bracing.
The frame system is not
efficient for larger heights due to
large quantity of steel required.
Khan used the perimeter tube
structures instead of a central
core.
Site plan
Megamodule
system
Structurally, the building
pioneered the use of
bundled tube construction.
The tower is composed of
nine bundled structural
tubes resting on reinforced
concrete caissons that go
down to bedrock. The
caissons are tied together
by a reinforced concrete
mat.
Example 2  Location: Hong Kong

The Bank of China  Site area: 8000 m2

Tower  Building area: 4,565,844 sq.ft.


 Architect: I.M Pie

 The whole structure is supported by the four steel columns at the


corners of the building and one in the center of the building, with
the triangular frameworks transferring the weight of the structure
onto these five columns.
 It is covered with glass curtain walls.
The Designing
resists wind load
and/or  The foundation: The caisson foundation consists of concrete
columns constructed in cylindrical shafts excavated under the
earthquake proposed structural column location.
 Coloumn :The shape causes eccentric load. Off-center loads would
cause excessive stresses in columns.
 Shear Wall : Only a small portion of the loads carried to the service
cores in the lower floors flows directly to the foundations.
 The architect used a less steel for the building’s construction. The
Cross braces cross braces and triangular framework of the building are
designed to withstand typhoons and make structurally effective:
method
• Triangular shape as most structural stable geometry
• Carries building load, and reduces use of steel by 30% as
compared to typical column and beam system
 Common structural element in architecture.

 Truss:
 Steel members are joined together into triangular shapes, which
are able to resist external forces.
 When joined together, these triangles can form large truss
systems that can span long distances.
 BASE ISOLATION
 This works by essentially
separating the building from the
moving ground during an
earthquake. It will move with the
ground, both the movement to
the rest of the building is
minimized by the provision of
special features.

• DIAGONAL BRACING
 Shearing forces as distinct to push
and pull forces, can cause
tremendous damage to buildings.
Diagonal bracing helps to
minimize the effect to these
shearing forces during an
earthquake.

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