Title A Study on Planning Measurement and Analysis of Tall Office Buildings
Authors Cho Jong-Soo ; Shim Eun-Ju ; Chu Beom
Page pp.67-74
ISSN 12269093
Keywords Tall Office Buildings ; Measurement of Architectural Planning Factors ; Planning Characteristics
Abstract The tall building is a dramatic phenomenon and a powerful expression of architecture in the modern civilization. The architecture of these tall buildings has been developed with mutual contributions of architectural aesthetic form and advanced technologies. Architecturally the significant evolution of tall buildings from ancient towers is a "change of function" from some religious symbols to a commercial concept that has aesthetically become acceptable with the changing of modern society and culture driven by a technological evolution. Generally, this commercial function in the evolution of tall building is office where high-rise working style is simply a necessity to meet quantitative market demands since this style in major cities around world has been changed from low-rise to high-rise during the last several decades in influenced of the modern industrial society.
To achieve optimum spaces with architectural aesthetics in the tall office building, the design has become collaborative, requiring the input of architects, engineers, economists, and other consultants. Hence, architects must deeply understand the basic planning theories of tall office buildings and try to find optimum planning between architectural aesthetics and other issues. For the approach, we can firstly start with measurement and analysis of the planning use situation for major planning issues of tall office buildings in practice. Therefore, this study is to find commonly used planning strategies in practice through the survey and quantitative analysis of data was done to evaluate present architectural planning considerations from 115 tall office buildings in the world. This research of collecting data from existing tall office buildings in practice is significant because it represents the practice of tall building planning. It will give a chance to confirm commonly used planning and then becomes the starting point of the planning development of tall office buildings based on practical planning issues.