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Team Members: Frank Yuxing Fang, Hailey Harry Kim
For my MIT's second semester main project, we designed a high-rise building for New York City. The goal of this project, was to provide a design for a high-rise building on the south-western side of Hudson Yards, New York City, that incorporates architectural aesthetics into its structural form. A significant design goal was to integrate the Highline located along the Hudson River into the structure, and create free mobility between the Highline and the building. The design also aimed to provide a public space at our roof level, and add to Manhattan’s established architectural history while still complementing and enhancing the surrounding skyline. Some of the major considerations for the design were utilization of available real estate, innovative architectural aesthetics, and environmentally sustainable performance.
The vertical structural system in the building consists of steel gravity columns that carry floor loads from each floor down to the base of the structure. For each floor, composite steel beams with a concrete-on-metal deck system is used to carry gravity loads to the columns. As part of the lateral system, a central concrete shear wall core is utilized to provide lateral stiffness and load-resisting capacity to the structure. In order to maximum the volume of concrete used as part of the shear wall system, the shear walls set back and reduce in size along the height of the structure.
See below images of the lateral and gravity systems of the building, and also an image of the overall final design.
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