CASE STUDY 1 HE

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Name of the building RT
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Hearst Tower, NYC
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Name of architect NY
AR. Norman Foster C

Client
William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst Corporation

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Introduction… HE
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• Hearst Tower in New York City, is located at 300 ST
West 57th Street on Eighth Avenue. TO
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• It is the world headquarters of the Hearst R
Corporation.

• Foster's tower rises out of former six-story

International Magazine Building, commissioned by
the founder, William Randolph Hearst.

• The building was completed in 1928 and contained

40,000 sq. ft. area and was designed by Joseph
Urban

• The original cast stone facade has been preserved

in the new design as a designated Landmark site.

• The new tower addition was completed nearly

eighty years later.

• The building received the Gold LEED award in 2006.

 PLAN OF THE BUILDING

SITE PLAN

LOBBY PLAN

FRONT ELEVATION
Figures and Facts…. HE
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•Gross Area: 79,500 m² ST
• Building Height: 597 ft TO
•Zoning Area: 67,000 m² N (182 m)
•Typical Floor to Floor
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• Height:
• Number of Stories: 46 R
-13’-6" (4 m)
Entrance

•Typical Gross Floor

Area: (1,900 m²)

•Total area of
building: 49070m2 182 m
Tower Area Atrium
Office area

•The tower has two

distinct zones:
•The office zone starts
110 ft above street level
(10TH to 44TH floor).
•Below the 10TH floor the
building houses entrance,
lobby, cafeteria and at
the 3RD floor and
auditorium with approx.
80foot high interior open
space.
Structural System HE
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•The uncommon triangular framing ST
pattern (also known as a dia-grid) intersection TO
required 9,500 metric tons (10,480 of the
diagonal and WE
tons) of structural steel – reportedly horizontal
about 20% less than a conventional elements. R
Skylight
steel frame.

•Each triangle in the dia-grid is four

stories tall, or 54 feet/16 m high

•The dia-grid begins at the 10th

floor. From 10 down the building
rests on raking mega-columns that
allow for vast open spaces.

•The building uses a composite steel

and concrete floor with 40 foot
interior column.

•The diagrids form a network of a

triangulated truss system interconnecting all
four faces of the tower, thus creating a highly
efficient tube structure. And diagrids nodes
act as center for redirecting the member
forces.
Mega Column
DIAGRID NETWORK
FORMING A TUBULAR
STRUCTURE.
Structural System HE
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•The inherent lateral stiffness and NODAL LVL. ST
strength of dia-gird provided a TO
significant advantage for general
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stability requirement for tower
under gravity, wind and seismic R
loading.

•This resulted in a highly efficient

structural system that consumed
20% less steel material in
comparison to conventional
movement frame structures.

•The diagonal elements are braced SECONDARY LATERAL SYSTEM

at floor level between the nodal
level.

•Thus a secondary lateral system

was provided connecting the
diaphragm floors( braced frame at
the service core area).

From inside
Features HE
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Three storey water sculpture in the atrium, help

Escalators in cooling.

Skylights through the roof of the base building

Interior workspace
Low “E” windows Birds mouth on ext. facade
Green building HE
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•Hearst Tower is the first green building completed in New York City. ST
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•The floor of the atrium is paved with heat conductive limestone. WE
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•Polyethylene tubing is embedded under the floor and filled with circulating water for cooling in the
summer and heating in the winter.

•Rain collected on the roof is stored in a tank in the basement for use in the cooling system, to irrigate
plants and for the water sculpture in the main lobby.

•The building was constructed using 80% recycled steel.

•The building has been designed to use 25% less energy than the minimum requirements for the city
of New York

•Daylight sensors to control lighting and reduce energy use .

•The atrium features escalators which run through a 3-story water sculpture titled Icefall, a wide
waterfall built with thousands of glass panels, which cools and humidifies the lobby air.

• The rainwater is harvested in one 14,000-gallon reclamation tank located in the basement of the
Hearst Tower. The rainwater will be used to replace water lost to evaporation in the office air-
conditioning system. It also will be fed into a special pumping system to irrigate plantings and trees
inside and outside of the building. It is expected that the captured rain and will produce about half of
the watering needs.