GENERAL INFORMATION

• Course Title: Advanced Technology in Architectural Practice (AR-581)

• Course Instructor: Muhammad Junaid
• Email address: junaidsk2010@gmail.com
• Total credits Hours: 01+02
Marks:
• 50 → Theory (15 Midterm + 25 Final exam + 10 Assignment/Class
Participation)
• 50 → Practical
• Academic Session: Fall Semester 2020
• Batch: 2017
BOOKS/ONLINE MATERIALS AUTHOR
INTEGRATING INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE
Design, Methods and Technology for
Progressive Practice and Research Ajla Aksamija

ADVANCED BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Asif Syed
ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY: Research and Practice
Stephen Emimitt
ADVANCES IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY (vol 1-2) M.Anson, J.M.Ko & E.S.S
Lam
BUILDING STRUCTURES: From Concepts to Design, 2nd Edition
Millais, M (2005)
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY: VOL. II
B.K Sarkar
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION: GREEN BUILDING DESIGN AND
DELIVERY (1ST EDITION)
Wiley, Kibert C.J
A HANDBOOK OF WATERPROOFING
TALL OR HIGHRISE
BUILDINGS
 Why Tall Buildings?

• Concrete Jungle

• Traffic Jams

• Against Ecology
 Why Tall Buildings? (In Past)

• Admired because of social status since ancient times.

• Visible to All.
• Their builders had highest respect in societies.
• The early tall buildings are seven wonders today
Temple of Artemis in Turkey (Artemesium)
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Colossus of Rhodes in Olympia
Pyramids of Giza-Egypt
 Why Today?

• Two Main Reason

1. Population Growth

2. Organization
Why Tall Buildings?
 Some Benefits of Tall Buildings

• Less Fuel (Gas)

• Less roads
• Less energy
• Less Infrastructure
• Less waste of land
 What is a Tall or High-rise Building?
According to Visual Dictionary of Architecture:
• Low-rise is a building having 1,2 or 3 stories and usually with no elevator.
• Mid-rise is a building having “moderately” large number of stories, usually 5
to 10, and equipped with elevators.
• High-rise is a building having “comparatively” large number of stories and
equipped with elevators
But on the other hand, Tall Buildings can be classified :
❑Based on relative height
❑Based on total height
❑Based on architectural design
❑Based on number of floors
1852 – Elevators Make Higher Rising possible
In 1852, Elisha Otis invented the world’s
first “safety elevator” with a catch
mechanism that could protect
passengers if a cable broke. Only a short
time later, in 1857, the first passenger
elevator was opened to the public in the
E.V. Haughwout Building, in New York
City.

Stories: 5
Height: 79 feet / 24 meters
Distinction: First building with an
elevator
 Tubular System- A breakthrough
• This is the system which made tall buildings possible. The tube is a structural
engineering system that is used in high-rise buildings, enabling them to resist
lateral loads from wind, seismic pressures and so on. It acts like a hollow
cylinder, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground.
• The system was developed in the 1960s by the architect and engineer Fazlur
Rahman Khan, and has been used to construct most high-rise buildings since
then.
• The first example of the tube’s use is the 43-story Khan-designed DeWitt-
Chestnut Apartment Building, since renamed Plaza on DeWitt, in Chicago,
Illinois, finished in 1966.
 Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan

• He was a Bangladeshi-American structural

engineer and architect, who initiated
important structural systems for skyscrapers.
Considered the "father of tubular designs" for
high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in
computer-aided design (CAD). He was the
designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed
Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world
from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John
Hancock Centre.
Elements and Professionals
involved in a Tall Building
Project
 Tall Building and Service Core

• The main different in “Low-rise Building” and “High-rise Building” is Service

core.
• A service core contains:
Elevators and Stairs
HVAC
Plumbing and fire piping
Electrical and Communication Cables
One tall building is designed with one or more Service Cores.