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Skyscraper CTF Finance Center
Skyscraper CTF Finance Center
GROUP 9
The design of Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is derived from the efficient synthesis of
its multiple uses. Its form is sculpted at four major transition points: office to residential,
residential to hotel, hotel to crown, and crown to sky. Instead of tapering to accommodate
the smaller floor plates required for different programs, the tower steps back at four
angled parapets. These four setbacks allow for lush sky terraces and dramatic skylights.
Careful attention was paid to the material selection for the tower. Thus, a series of subtle
terra cotta mullions line the tower’s elevations. This material played a very important role
in both Eastern and Western history, and is also beneficial from an environmental
standpoint. The embodied energy of terra cotta is far less than aluminum, glass, or steel. It
is self-cleaning and corrosion-resistant. Moreover, it can be produced in many locations in
China, reducing the environmental impact of shipping. These terra cotta mullions were
designed to project out from the glass on an angle to provide shading on the exterior.
The building employs a number of energy efficient tools to reduce its environmental
footprint. In addition to its strong multi-level connections to public transportation, the use
of high-efficiency chillers and heat recovery from the water-cooled chiller condensers all
contribute to the building’s sustainability
Height: To Tip
530 m / 1739ft
Height Architectural
530 m / 1739ft Floors Above Ground
111
Height: Occupied Floors BelowGround
495,5m / 1626ft 5
# of Elevators
86
Top Elevator Speed
20 m/s
Tower GFA
398,000 m2 / 4,284,036 ft2
Development GFA
507,681 m2 / 5,464,633 ft2
# of Apartments
355
# of Hotel Rooms
251
# of Parking Spaces
1,705
General Information:
Technical Details:
Proposed: 2009
Structural Material: Composite
Construction Start: 2010
Structure Type: Building
Completion: 2016
Type: Mixed-Use ( Hotel,
Residential, and Office)
Location: Guangzhou, China
Development costs: US$ 1,5
billion Material Supplier
• Cladding :Jangho Group Co.,
Companies Involved Ltd.
Owner :Chow Tai Fook Enterprises • Elevator :Hitachi, Ltd.
Developer :Guangzhou Xinyu Real Estate • Façade Maintenance
Development Co., Ltd. Equipment :CoxGomyl
Architect • Paint/Coating: Jotun
• Design :Kohn Pedersen Fox • Sealants :Dow Corning
Associates Corporation
• Architect of Record: Leigh & Orange; • Steel :China Construction
Guangzhou Design Institute Steel Structure
Structural Engineer: Corporation
• Design :Arup
• Peer Review : Leslie E. Robertson Associates
MEP Engineer
• Design :WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Project Manager : New World China Land Limited
Main Contractor : China State Construction
Engineering Corporation
Guangzhou CTF (Chow Tai Fook)
Centre
The designs for the serviced apartment area and hotel area are
similar to zones 3 and 4 of the office area, except that all the
elevators are of single-deck, with elevator transfers made
at the serviced apartment sky lobby and hotel sky lobby,
respectively. Four shuttle elevators serve the serviced apartment
area and hotel area respectively. At the serviced apartment sky
lobby, occupants of the apartment can transfer to 11 local
elevators to reach each floor of serviced apartment. For the
hotel area, four local elevators are available for occupants to
reach the hotel floor and three shuttle elevators would transfer
visitors from the hotel sky lobby to the hotel restaurant at roof
level.
The district where GZCTF is located. A
secondary water-cooled central chiller plant is
also designed in the basement as back-up
facilities for office and podium retail floors.
A remarkable achievement was the
minimization of hydraulic pressure break with
high energy efficiency and reliability. This is
done by assigning a total of three separate
chiller plants to the offices/podiums,
serviced apartments, and hotels (Figure 8).
The challenging part was to optimally locate
the energy centers for enhancing system
reliability, energy efficiency, and to
coordinate with architects and structural
engineers.
A Variable Air Volume (VAV) system will be
used for offices while a Fan Coil Unit (FCU)
system will be installed in serviced apartments
and hotel. To enhance environmental quality,
the design has been aimed to achieve the
following Green awards: LEED® Gold for
offices, retail and hotels; and PRC Green Stars.
One of the methods of attaining the
aforementioned awards was to include
relevant green engineering provisions, such as
high performance building envelope, heat
recovery chillers, air-side free-cooling (office and
ballroom), CO2 fresh air control, water-saving
valves, energy efficient lightings, air-
conditioning condensate collection and reuse,
and wastewater treatment and reuse, etc.
System structure
The tower is made of eight giant steel pipe concrete columns, internal concrete
core tube, with four extension arm truss and 6 ring truss reinforcement layer
structure, so that the structure not only meet the seismic design standards ,
While meeting the needs of architectural functions.
The building's giant and extensor truss
nodes are designed with a penetrating design
to simplify node construction and make
force more direct. In the structural design
stage, engineers spend a lot of thought,
improve and achieve a complex node design.
This technology has won the State Council
awarded the National Science and
Technology Progress Award.
Outriggers: Frameworks to
clamping the buildings
Mullion : a vertical bar
between the panes of glass in
a window.