High Rise Buildings in Interior Design

Types of High-Rise Structures

• A braced tube is a framed structure tied together by a system of diagonal braces.
• A trussed tube has trussed wall frames of widely spaced columns tied together by diagonal or cross bracing.
• A latticed truss tube has perimeter frames of closely spaced diagonals with no vertical columns.
• Bundled tubes is an assembly of narrow tubes tied directly to each other to form a modular structure that behaves like a multicellular box girder cantilevering out of the ground.
• Tube – in tube structure has an inner braced core added to the perimeter tube to improve its shear stiffness in resisting lateral forces.

Damping Mechanisms

• Damping mechanisms are viscoelastic devices that absorb the energy generated by wind or earthquake forces.
• Internal damping is the damping that naturally occurs as a building undergoes elastic or plastic deformation.

Super Tall Skyscrapers

• The base and walls of the lower floors of super tall skyscrapers must be incredibly strong due to the immense weight.
• Pilings are used to anchor the building to the bedrock underground.
• The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, uses specially treated and mixed reinforced concrete.

High-Rise Buildings

• High-rise buildings are tall enough to require the use of a system of mechanical vertical transportation such as elevators.
• The skyscraper is a very tall high-rise building.
• The first high-rise buildings were constructed in the United States in the 19th century.
• High-rise buildings were made practicable by the use of steel structural frames and exterior glass sheathing.

Lateral Forces and Stability

• Tall buildings are particularly susceptible to the effects of lateral forces.
• A rigid frame is the least efficient way to achieve lateral stability and is appropriate only for low-to medium-rise structures.
• As the height of a building increases, it becomes necessary to supplement a rigid frame with additional bracing mechanisms.
• An efficient type of high-rise structure is a tube structure with perimeter lateral force-resisting systems internally braced by rigid floor diaphragms.