2. Taipei 101 – stylized as TAIPEI 101 and
formerly known as the Taipei World
Center – is a landmark supertall
skyscraper in Xinyi
The building was officially classified as
the world's tallest in 2004, and remained
until the completion of the Burj
Khalifa in Dubai in 2009.
In 2011, the building was awarded the
platinum certification, the highest award
according to the Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) rating
and became the tallest and largest green
3. It used to have the fastest elevator in the
world, traveling at 60.6 km/h and transporting
passengers from the 5th to 89th floor in 37
seconds .
Construction on the 101-story tower started in
1999 and finished in 2004.
Taipei 101 is primarily owned by pan-
government shareholders.The name that was
originally planned for the building,Taipei
World Financial Center, until 2003, was derived
from the name of the owner.The original
name in Chinese was Taipei International
Financial Center.
4. SOME BASIC INFORMATION
Architect – C.Y.Lee & Partners
Structural Engineer – Shaw Shieh
Structural Consult. – Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, New York City
Year Started – June 1998 (Mall already open)
Total Height – 508m
No. of Floors – 101
Plan Area – 50m X 50m
Cost – $ 700 million
Building Use – Office Complex + Mall
Parking - 83,000 m2, 1800 cars
Retail - Taipei 101 Mall (77,033 m2)
Offices - Taiwan Stock Exchange (198,347 m2)
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
Structure depicts a bamboo stalk
Youth and Longevity
Everlasting Strength
Pagoda Style
Eight prominent sections
Chinese lucky number “8”
In China, 8 is a homonym for prosperity
Even number = “rhythm and symmetry”
Basement and first 8 floors
BUILDING FRAME
Materials
60ksi Steel
10,000 psi Concrete
Systems
Outrigger Trusses
Moment Frames
Belt Trusses
Lateral Load Resistance
Braced Moment Frames in the
building’s core
Outrigger from core to
perimeter
Perimeter Moment Frames
Shear walls
5.
6. Features
Heights :
Taipei 101 comprises 101 floors above
ground, as well as 5 basement levels.
It was not only the first building in the world
to break the half-kilometer mark in height,
but also the world's tallest building from
March 2004 to 10 March 2010.As of 28 July
2011, it is still the world's largest and highest-
use green building.
Upon its completion,Taipei 101 was the
world's tallest inhabited building, at 509.2 m
(1,671 ft) as measured to its height
architectural top (spire), exceeding
7. structural design
380 piles with 3 inch concrete slab.
Mega columns- 8 cm thick steel & 10,000 psi
concrete infill to provide for overturning.
Walls - 5 & 7 degree slope.
106,000 tons of steel, grade 60- 25% stronger.
6 cranes on site – steel placement.
Electrical & Mechanical.
Curtain wall placement.
CHALLENGES FACED
Taipei being a coastal city the problems present
are:
Weak soil conditions (The structures tend to
sink).
Typhoon winds (High lateral displacement tends
to topple structures).
Large potential earthquakes (Generates shear
forces).
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
Braced core with belt trusses.FLOOR SLAB
(STRUCTURAL DIAPHRAGMS)
Slabs are composite in nature and are typically
13.5 cms thick.
8. RWDI designed a 660-tonne (728-short-ton)[29][30][31] steel pendulum
that serves as a tuned mass damper, at a cost of NT$132 million (US$4
million).[32] Suspended from the 92nd to the 87th floor, the pendulum
sways to offset movements in the building caused by strong gusts. Its
sphere, the largest damper sphere in the world, consists of 41 circular steel
plates of varying diameters, each 125 mm (4.92 in) thick, welded together
to form a 5.5 m (18 ft) diameter sphere.
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11. Structural façade
Taipei 101's characteristic blue-green glass curtain walls are double
paned and glazed, offer heat and UV protection sufficient to block
external heat by 50 percent, and can sustain impacts of 7 tonnes (8
short tons) .
The façade system of glass and aluminum panels installed into an
inclined moment-resisting lattices contributes to overall lateral rigidity.
A double chamfered step design was found to dramatically reduce this
crosswind oscillation, resulting in the final design's "double stairstep"
corner façade.
Taipei 101's own roof and façade recycled water system meets 20 to 30
percent of the building's water needs
13. Taipei 101, fourth from left, compared with other tallest buildings in
Asia.
14. Major earthquake took
place in Taiwan during
31 March 2002
destroying a construction
crane at the roof top,
which was at floor
number 47. The crane fell
down onto the Xinyi Road
beneath the tower,
crushing several vehicles
and causing five deaths –
two crane operators and
three workers who were
not properly harnessed.
15. Safety
• By the attacks on September 11,
2001 in New York, it was necessary
to provide for the building of a good
security. A small list of some safety
measures:
• All pillars and steel supports are
sprayed with fireproof foam.
• Taipei 101 has much firewater: two
full Olympic swimming pools full.
• On every eighth floor an evacuation
zone has been constructed. These
spaces are fireproof and provide
refuge for people in the building.
• The building has 34 double-deck
16. More drawbacks
There are more
disadvantages to the Taipei
101: The nearby airport Sung
Shan demanded that the
tower only 392 meters high
could be because this would
be an obstacle to the aircraft.
This was rejected, and
instead there were spotlights
placed on the building in
order to warn aircraft in a
timely manner. Taipei 101 is
built on a 55 meter thick
