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Vol. - No.	Vol.6 - No.3
Date	Sep., 2017
Title	Welcome the Challenges and Imaging the Sky Town
Author	Jiang Huan Cheng
Institutions	Jiang Architects & Engineers, 100 Yutong Road, Suite 2602, Shanghai, China
Abstract	Safety, livability, and efficiency are the three prominent problems of tall buildings, which are also the severe challenges to designers. We proposed the idea of building the sky town to solve these problems, which can be summarized in two sentences, one is tall building multi-storised, and another one is vertical facilities municipal-infrastructurised. The tall building can be horizontally cut into several multi-storey buildings by some large platforms. The platform extends a certain width to block the fire from spreading. Tall buildings are connected together as a group. One of them is a traffic core, which is used for vertical transportation and MEP. It connects to traffic center such as metro, while most of the other tall buildings' cores can be very much released, so as to achieve maximum efficiency of floor usable area and to give good traffic organization. By combining traffic core, platforms, and multi-storey buildings' inner traffic, a transportation network is formed. Finally, we refer to the design of Raffles City Chongqing to make a sketch of sky town.
Keyword	Sky town, Tall building multi-storised, Vertical facilities municipal-infrastructurised, Traffic core, Transportationnetwork, Mega frame, Mega truss, Damping device
PP.	PP.271~277
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