| Title |
A Study of Form Composition and Efficiency in High-Rise Office Buildings |
| Keywords |
Tall Office Buildings ; Form Efficiency ; Form Composition ; Architectural Design |
| Abstract |
After Industrial revolution, high-rise buildings have been designed and constructed in major cities, because it was recognized as one of the solutions to release required architectural spaces in limited area. From this point, high-rise buildings have became a dramatic phenomenon and a powerful expression of architecture in the modern civilization due to their huge mass and vertical spaces. The architecture of these high-rise buildings has been developed with mutual contributions of architectural aesthetic form and advanced technologies. The design of high-rise building needs a spacial approach to form, space, vertical movement, construction and etc comparing with low-rise buildings. The reason is that high-rise buildings have a different characteristics for environmental system such as strong wind and huge spaces. Therefore, to achieve optimum building form with architectural aesthetics, the design has become collaborative, requiring the input of architects, engineers, and other consultants. It means that designers must deeply understand the basic design theories of high-rise office buildings and try to find optimum design between architectural aesthetics and other issues. Hence, this research tries to find a design base for efficient building form by analyzing major elements to effect building form such as space, energy use, and structure. This study starts with measurements and analyses of existing tall office buildings by survey. And then it measures and analyzes the efficiency of space, energy use, and structure in terms of building forms by computer simulation. It will give a chance to inform design efficiency for high-rise building's form composition before starting initial design and then help the architect design resonable tall office building based on analyzed data from this study. |