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Continuing in my British-based starchitect binge, this is a 40-story apartment building by Norman Foster planned to go up in Ealing, outside of London. The tower employs a striking braced structural shell around the two joined towers, and the two towers meet at the ground in a delicate fashion at the four corners. The name, penned by those working in Foster and Partners, is due to the resemblance of the structure of the tower to that of a leaf. The tower is under scrutiny by those of Ealing, and the tower may be scrapped, or significantly shortened due to outcries of the local residents.
My interpretation is a bit taller than its proposed real world counterpart (which is 143 m tall), but i was going for proportional accuracy, particularly with the structure, rather than for real world accuracy. I may, at some point, make units in the tower, but for now, it is unfurnished.
Dimensions: 45 x 49 x 168
Using High Rossferry City Texture Pack
Thank you to Darkone55
The Broadway Leaf by jduartemiller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Continuing in my British-based starchitect binge, this is a 40-story apartment building by Norman Foster planned to go up in Ealing, outside of London. The tower employs a striking braced structural shell around the two joined towers, and the two towers meet at the ground in a delicate fashion at the four corners. The name, penned by those working in Foster and Partners, is due to the resemblance of the structure of the tower to that of a leaf. The tower is under scrutiny by those of Ealing, and the tower may be scrapped, or significantly shortened due to outcries of the local residents.
My interpretation is a bit taller than its proposed real world counterpart (which is 143 m tall), but i was going for proportional accuracy, particularly with the structure, rather than for real world accuracy. I may, at some point, make units in the tower, but for now, it is unfurnished.
Dimensions: 45 x 49 x 168
Using High Rossferry City Texture Pack
Thank you to Darkone55
The Broadway Leaf by jduartemiller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Just like me and the other contestants put up links to the contest on the forum.
*edit: crap to soon, srry*
Anyway what kind of immense powers will come free on those two ground levels?
Since your profile state you're an architecture student I wonder if you learn a lot about it
or it will be handled by other persons. In other words do you learn a lot about it or is the mentally there more like: meh others will calculate the way it should be standing alright.
For the rest: well done.
Regarding your question, yes, there is an immense amount of force, and not all of the structure is present in my interpretation (i'm working from somewhat limited images that are cleverly hiding how the structure meets the ground.
Although it isn't common in a lot of schools, as there are some that focus solely on the theoretical side of design, my school does teach us how to deal with forces and how to appropriate the proper material and structural members to withstand the loads. While in studios, we do not focus as much on this, we do consciously put realistic structure in our designs.
Due to the way that the architecture field is going, an architect doesn't need to calculate all of the forces, particularly in a project of this size. For smaller projects, yes, they should be able to engineer the entire thing without needing a consult. But on a large project, a consulting engineer, or engineering team will be needed.