MEGA TALL BUILDINGS & FUTURE PLACES OF WORK

CO-CHAIRS:

MARIA PAZ GUTIERREZ,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UC BERKELEY

MARIJA TRCKA, UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP, EAST HARTFORD

URBANIZATION TRENDS

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‘1M people move to cities every week’ UN Habitat

‘By 2035 2B more people will live in cities’International Organization for Migration (IOM)

‘In 2030, there will be 41 megacities (28 in 2014)’http://inhabitat.com/un-report-finds-the-number-of-megacities-has-tripled-in-since-1990/

RISE OF CITIES

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Cities are getting taller

Figure: A study of the tallest 20 buildings per decade. © CTBUH

2000Average: 375 m (1,230 ft)

2010Average: 439 m (1,440 ft)

2020Average: 598 m (1,962 ft)

Mega: 600 m

Super: 300 m

FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

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1854 Otis Elevator Brake

Figure: TimeLine of skyscrapers @ www.ComplianceBuilding.com

1884Home Insurance BuildingFirst Steel Frame Contraction

1874 Electric LightingIncandescent Light Bulb

1906 Carrier Air-Conditioning‘Apparatus for Treating Air’

CHALLENGES OF MEGASCALE

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(M.P. Gutierrez, 2017)

(M.P. Gutierrez, 2017)

Vertical Shanghai, Sano et al, Evolo Skyscraper, , 2016 Vertical City, Fo

(SMining Skyscraper, Evolo 2017)

(Sequoia Skyscraper, Evolo Skyscraper, 2017)

M.P. Gutierrez, Paradigms in Comuters, (ed. J. Gerber) 2014

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS

CLIENT

CONTRACTORARCHITECT

COSTANALYSISDESIGN

BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY

MECHANICALENGINERRING

ACOUSTICALENGINERRINGCIVIL

ENGINERRING

STRUCTURALENGINERRING

ELECTRICALENGINERRING

( M.P. Gutierrez , ARQ Cambridge, 2014)

CLIENT

CONTRACTOR

COSTANALYSIS

MECHANICALENGINERRING

ACOUSTICALENGINERRINGCIVIL

ENGINERRING

STRUCTURALENGINERRING

ELECTRICALENGINERRING

DESIGN

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS

ARCHITECT BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY

( M.P. Gutierrez , ARQ Cambridge, 2014)

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS

ARCHITECT BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS

ARCHITECT BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY

MECHANICALENGINERING

BIOENGINEERING

PHYSICS

CHEMISTRY

BIOLOGY

COMPUTERSCIENCE

MATERIALSCIENCE

( M.P. Gutierrez , ARQ Cambridge, 2014)

SCALE - CIRCULATION

TRANSPORT: ELEVATORS

‘All, safe, Gentleman, all safe’ Elisha Graves Otis, 1854Breakthrough above 5 floors

HUMAN INTERFACING ?

Evolution of Elevators

Source: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/history-elevator/

(http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/en/the-stories.aspx?story=126)

A’DAM tower in Amsterdam- Lift with dynamic light show at the A'DAM Tower, Amsterdam. Designed by InventDesign, photography by Dennis Bouman. Image © InventDesign

Space Elevator lift (https://storiesbywilliams.com/2013/08/23/space-elevators/)

PASSENGER JOURNEYOffice

Enter Building

Traverse Lobby

Throughaccesscontrol

In frontof elevators

In the elevator

To the elevators

In the elevator

From the elevators

From / to the sky lobbyelevators

In frontof elevators

© 2017 OTIS ELEVATOR. A UNITED TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY.Historical Photographs, Illustrations, Images & Ads from Otis Historical Archive

The Evolution of ElevatorsStephen R. Nichols

United Technologies Research Center; East Hartford, CT; USA

SCALE – MATERIALS & STRUCTURE

BACK TO NATURE

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

Steel and reinforced concrete that enabled buildings above 80 m

?NATURAL MATERIALS INNOVATION

http://www.som.com/projects/burj_khalifa__structural_engineering

Research Across Scales and DisciplinesPlant Sciences • Biochemistry • Chemistry • Fluid Mechanics • Architecture • Engineering

Dr. Michael H. Ramage

University of Cambridge

Light Earth Designs LLP

IMPOSSIBLY HIGH SUPER SKYSCRAPERS

Michael H.Ramage www.light-earth.com

INTEGRATING BIOLOGY INTO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

POWER OF & WITH

NATURE

BUILDING STRUCTURE ?BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS,

AND DIGITAL FABRICATION

Building resistant to wind, earthquakes, water

APPLICATIONS OF INSIGHTS FROM BIOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS TO THE DESIGN OF MATERIAL STRUCTURES

JENNY SABINCORNELL UNIVERSITYSABIN STUDIO

Dynamic Reciprocity

Image courtesy Jones Lab

Structural Color at the Human Scale Intensity Sensing Prototype, eSkin

eSkin Building Facade

Kirigami Geometry

Image Courtesy Shu Yang Group