
Define high-rise, tall buildings, and skyscrapers as time- and place-dependent terms, and explore their evolution, wind considerations, materials, and mixed-use benefits.
Explore standards guiding high-rise design, from building codes and structural design requirements to fire safety, wind and seismic controls, accessibility, energy efficiency, and resilient plumbing and electrical systems.
Explore essential planning considerations for high-rise design, including span, ceiling heights, floor-to-floor dimensions, elevator and core planning, and parking integration across office, hotel, and residential contexts.
Analyze high-rise design considerations by aligning with the city masterplan and site selection, prioritizing sustainability, safety, and the possibilities and limitations of technology within codes and life-safety requirements.
Use deep foundations for seismic resistance; base isolation dampens vibrations, while symmetrical high-rises reduce torsion under seismic and wind loads, addressing soft-story and cladding risks.
Examine three high rise structural systems: steel, reinforced concrete, and composite, and their roles in wind and earthquake resistance, damping, and constructability across frame, braced exterior, and tube configurations.
Explore green architecture concepts within high-rise building design. Learn how tall structures can apply these concepts to create sustainable, efficient environments.
Explore skyscraper design highlights within a guide to high-rise building design, highlighting key concepts in tall-building design.
Apply bioclimatic skyscraper principles developed by Kenyon into design solutions with central core and double-sided cores, optimizing orientation, shading, and natural ventilation for low energy buildings with renewable energy integration.
Explore the Burj Khalifa's high-rise design in Dubai, detailing its triple-lobe, modular y-shaped form, wind reduction strategies, and central core torsional resistance engineered by Skidmore Owings Merrill.
Explore high-rise building design through the work of architect Rem Koolhaas, examining innovative forms, design strategies, and urban context in skyscraper architecture.
Learn how to collect data for high-rise design, including site maps and plans, land use and ward maps, height regulations, building services, facade options, and design constraints.
Increasing demands for urban spaces pushed the environment to grow vertical and compact. High-rise mixed-use development offers solutions to both problems by maximizing the number of people that can live and work on a scarce, fixed amount of available land. The traditional front-lawn houses are cut away and rearranged into skyscrapers, losing their greenness and their “neighborhood”. So, the necessity of mixed- use developments integrating plants and bio-climatic design principles has come up.
This COURSE explores the design issues and goals in high-rise mixed-use development. The designing and planning of high-rise mixed-use development involve consideration of all prevailing conditions and is usually guided by the local byelaws. The various functional needs, efficiency, economy, energy conservation, aesthetics, technology, fire and life safety solution, vertical transportation, human comforts, operation and maintenance practices, provision of future growth are some of the main factors to be incorporated in the design.
This COURSE has been emphasized on integration of plants into skyscrapers and applying bioclimatic design principles which play a vital role for the energy conservation by the building as well as improving the living quality into these vertical cities. Throughout this study, we establish the necessity of planting to incorporate into skyscrapers, for the wellbeing of our economy, society and the environment.
Because of their height and their large occupant populations, high-rises require the careful provision of life-safety systems. Fire-prevention standards should be strict, and provisions for adequate means of egress in case of fire, power failure, or other accident should be provided. Although originally designed for commercial purposes, many high-rises are now planned for multiple uses. The combination of office, residential, retail, and hotel space is common. Rest of the details about the concept, structures, services and other firefighting norms, we will check out in this course. Once again welcome you all to the course on a guide to high rise building design. Thank you.