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Originally Posted by officedweller
More spandrel than I expected to see on the tower:
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It's also a lot more concrete than I was expecting to see or be used on this tower.
I was expecting that that latticework type framing would be more along the lines of what they did with Vancouver House where it's just mostly steel studs and frames supporting hollow (insulated) panels - with the concrete mostly limited to the slabs and column structure system is in conventional building.
With this building the actual skin is structural concrete creating that lattice framework.
Which could be a good thing if it's actually load-bearing and carrying some of that load from the interior spaces and allowing for fewer columns in the interior floor layout (and potentially larger or more flexible floor layout. I don't know what the unit layouts are like in this building).
Or it could also be a not so good thing if it does end up cutting down on the amount of openings and natural daylighting and ventilation openings(porosity) through the skin - in conjunction with what seems like there'll be a fair amount of spandrel panels as well.
Use of exterior structural load-bearing skin like this is usually great for office buildings where you need as much open column-free open space as possible which can be reconfigured to fit different tenants' needs.
(like the World Trade Center Twin towers in New York that famously had almost zero columns due to their structural skin. Which, rather ironically and unfortunately contributed to their faster demise since column-free interior meant less impediments to prevent the planes from penetrating deeper into the building, after having taking out a huge chunk of the skin structure actually supporting the slabs, and in so doing spreading more jet fuel even deeper into the towers which kept the fires burning much longer and compromised the steel structure of the trusses holding up the slabs before the towers collapsed. It's arguable that in a conventionally built tower the planes wouldn't have penetrated as deep and the towers would have stood longer with most of the damage limited to the outer edges of the floor layout. But I digress. Excessively)
But it's not often great for residential building uses since you're accustomed to regular floor layouts anyway among the units and it's easy to fit units within a regular column grid, but the cutting down on openings for natural ventilation and visibility in the skin might lower the quality of living especially in a tower where one of the main selling points might be the views it offers.
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