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http://dx.doi.org/10.21022/IJHRB.2018.7.1.1

Dynamic Interrelationship between the Evolution of Structural Systems and Façade Design in Tall Buildings: From the Home Insurance Building in Chicago to the Present

Moon, Kyoung Sun (Yale University School of Architecture)

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International Journal of High-Rise Buildings / v.7, no.1, 2018 , pp. 1-16 More about this Journal

Abstract

The emergence of tall buildings in the late $19^{th}$ century was possible by using new materials and separating the role of structures and that of non-structural walls from the traditional load-bearing walls that acted as both. The role of structures is more important in tall buildings than in any other building type due to the "premium for height". Among the walls freed from their structural roles, façades are of conspicuous importance as building identifiers, significant definers of building aesthetics, and environmental mediators. This paper studies dynamic interrelationship between the evolution of tall building structural systems and façade design, beginning from the early tall buildings of skeletal structures with primitive curtainwalls to the recent supertall buildings of various tubular and outrigger structures with more advanced contemporary curtainwalls.

Keywords

Tall buildings; Skeletal structures; Tubular structures; Diagrids; Outrigger structures; Curtainwall facades;

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