The Shanghai World Financial Center is the 5th tallest building in the world at 492 meters tall. It has 101 floors and a distinctive trapezoidal aperture at the top. The mixed-use tower contains office, hotel, museum, and retail space. Its unique design draws from Chinese mythology and symbolism. The building employs an effective structural system of braced frames and outriggers to support wind and seismic loads while minimizing material usage. It received architectural awards for its innovative design and engineering.

1. CASE STUDY ON SKYSCRAPER
SHANGHAI WORLD
FINANCIAL CENTRE.
PRESENTED BY :- CHIRANJITA. J

3. WORLD 5TH TALLEST SKYSCRAPER

5. CONTENT : GENERAL INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION
STRUCTURAL DETAIL
BUILDING SERVICES
OTHER FEATURES

6. GENERAL INFORMATION
• Status :- Complete
• Type :- Office, hotel, museum,
observation, parking garage, retail
• Location :-100 Century Avenue,
Pudong, Shanghai, China
• Construction started :- August27,
1997.
• Completed :- July17, 2008.
• Opening :- August 28, 2008.

7.  Height :•
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Architectural 492.0 m
Tip 494.3 m
Roof 487.4 m
Top floor 474m
• No. of floor :- 101
• Floor area 381,600 m2
• Lifts/elevators :- 91

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Owner :-Shanghai World Financial Center Co., Ltd.
Architect :- Kohn Pedersen Fox
Developer :- Mori Building Co.
Structural engineer :- Leslie E. Robertson
Main contractor :- China state construction
Engineering crop and shanghai construction
(group) general co.

9. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION
• The most distinctive feature of the SWFC's design is
the trapezoid aperture at the peak.
• "Chinese mythology represents the earth with a
square and the sky with a circle.”
• It also resembled a Chinese Foreigners and Chinese
alike informally refer to the building as the bottle
opene
• The tower features three separate observation decks.
Located on 94th , 97th ,and 100th floor

10. Aperture at top

11. Obervation desk

12. Plan form of building
• "Chinese mythology
represents the earth with a
square and the sky with a
circle.”
• The building will be mixeduse, with a museum at the
base, a hotel at the top,
and office spaces in
between. Above the hotel
will be a visitor’s center,
while much of the area
below grade will house
mechanical parking.

13.  Structural Detail
• The tower's trapezoid aperture is made up of
structural steel and reinforced concrete.
• A large number of forces, such as wind loads, the
people in the building and heavy equipment housed
in the building, act on the SWFC's structure.
• These compressive and bending forces are carried
down to the ground by the diagonal-braced frame
(with added outrigger trusses).
• The design employs an effective use of material,
because it decreases the thickness of the outer core
shear walls and the weight of the structural steel in
the perimeter walls

17. • Exhibit Braces and
Outriggers are used to
stabilize and support
structures to ensure extra
support.
• The Exhibit and Display
Braces are used to stabilize
or support a corner span of
truss that may need extra
strength.
• Whereas our Display Booth
Outriggers are an angled
piece of truss that slopes
back or in front of a vertical
upright / leg providing the
necessary

18. • This is an extraordinary building, one that will attract
the eye of all in Shanghai. Making use of a composite,
steel and concrete mega-structure
• While no two floors are identical, considerable
repetition is found in the concrete walls and steel
framing.
• In order to decrease the weight of the building, the
majority of that decrease had to be found in a
reduction of the thickness of the concrete shear walls
of the services core.
• This reduction could be achieved only by decreasing
the wind- and earthquake-induced lateral forces

19. Column of mega structure
• The columns of the megastructure are of mixed
structural steel and
reinforced concrete
• the steel column must be
of a size capable of fully
transferring the vertical
component of the load in
the diagonals to the
composite columns

20. • The steel column only needs to be strong enough to
carry the construction load of the steelwork above.
• HOW TO MAKE BUILDING EARTHQUAKE
RESISTANCE :• Because of the unusual nature of the structural system,
considerable attention was given to resistance to the
moving earth.
• The structure is designed to remain in the elastic mode
throughout the life of the building.

22. BUILDING SERVICES

24. AWARDS :• Shanghai World Financial Center was named by
architects as the best skyscraper completed in 2008,
receiving both the Best Tall Building Overall and Asia &
Australasia awards from the Council on Tall Buildings
and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).[19][8]
• CTBUH's Carol Willis, head of New York's Skyscraper
Museum, stated: "The simplicity of its form as well as
its size dramatizes the idea of the skyscraper."[8]
Architect Tim Johnson noted its innovative structural
design: "Steel trusses gird against the forces of wind
and earthquake and made the building lighter, made it
use less steel, and contributed to its sustainability."[8] 19

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