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Vivo City in Singapore

General Study of Structure Form I

建築結構系統 I

Omotesando Tod’s in Tokyo

Structure
System

Introduction Comparison and Difference

- Structure is the primary and solitary instrument for generating form

and space in Architecture.

- Structure can completely be hidden by the building form, it can as well

become the building form it self , Architecture.

- Structure relies on the discipline exerted by the law of natural science.

- Structure personifies the creative intent of the designer to unify the form,
material and force.

- Structure presents an aesthetic, inventive tool for both shaping and

experience building.

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- STRUCTURE: 1. Section-active Structure System

(1) Forms with test
2. Vector-active Structure System
(2) A design IMPLEMENTS
3. Form-active Structure System

- STRUCTURE SYSTEM: 4. Surface-active Structure System

(1) Forms can be incorporated into the plan of the design

5. Height-active Structure System

(2) Orders and design PRINCIPLES 6. Hybrid Structure System

Section-active Structure System

- Confinement of the Force

The Architect develop the structure CONCEPT in his design.

- Structures acting mainly through cross section
and continuity of the materials

- System in bending stress condition: Sectional force

Vector-active Structure System

- Dissection of the Force

- Structures acting mainly through composition

of compressive and tensile members

Types of - System in coactive stress condition: Compressive and Tensile force

Structure
System

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Form-active Structure System Hybrid Structure System

- Adjustment of the Force - Two structure systems with dissimilar mechanics of redirecting
forces.

- Structures acting mainly through material form

- These two structure systems can be locked together to form a
single operational construct with new mechanics.
- System in single stress condition: Compressive or Tensile force

Surface-active Structure System

- Dispersion of the Force

- Structures acting mainly through extension

and form of service

- System in surface stress condition: Membrane force Section-

active
Structure
System

Opera House, Sydney, Australia Water Cube, China

Height-active Structure System Section-active Structure System

- Collection and Grounding of the Force - The structure system of solid, rigid linear elements

- Structures acting mainly as vertical load transmitter - Compacted form as slab, in which the redirection of
the forces is effected through
- System without typical condition MOBILIZATION OF SECTION FORCE

- External forces are redirected through sectional fabric

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Section-active Structure System Beam Structure

Wood

1. Beam Structure

2. Frame Structure
Steel

3. Beam Grid Structure

4. Slab Structure

Concrete

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Beam Structure

Example: Find the internal reactions at points indicated. All axial force
reactions are zero. Points are 2-m apart.

P = 20 kN

Beam 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10
Structure
6 7

8 kN 12 kN
12 m
20 m

Point 6 is just left of P and Point 7 is just right of P.

Beam Structure
V & M Diagrams P = 20 kN

- The structure function of beam systems is performed by actions

within the cross section.

- Consequently, the design of the beam CROSS SECTION, in compliance 8 kN 12 kN

with the specific materials is the primary concern in developing structure. 12 m
20 m

8 kN
V
(kN) x

-12 kN
96 m-kN
b
Simply supported beam
M
a c
(m-kN) x

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Beam Structure
V & M Diagrams P = 20 kN
Deflection Point

8 kN 12 kN
12 m
20 m

8 kN
V
(kN) x

What is the area of the

blue rectangle? -12 kN
96 m-kN What is the area of
96 m-kN
b the green rectangle?
-96 m-kN
M
a c
(ft-kips) x

Beam Structure Beam Structure

Common Relationships Firth Bridge

Cantilever bridge with total length of 2,528.7 m and longest span of 521.3 m
P Constant Linear

Load
Designer: Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Built year: 4 March 1890
Constant Linear Parabolic

Shear

Linear Parabolic Cubic

Moment

Beam Structure Beam Structure

Common Relationships

P Constant

Load M

Constant Constant Linear

Shear

Linear Linear Parabolic

Moment

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Beam Structure Beam Structure

- Influence of the cantilever action on beam efficiency

CASE 1 Simply supported beam

M Diagrams

Beam Structure Beam Structure

- Influence of the cantilever action on beam efficiency

CASE 2 Beam with both ends cantilevered 1/3 of column span

M Diagrams

Beam Structure Beam Structure

Guandu Bridge
- Influence of the cantilever action on beam efficiency
165 meters long through the arch bridge

CASE 3 Beam with both ends cantilevered by ½ of column span

Designer: Tung-Yen Lin

Location: Tamsui, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Built year: 31 October 1983

M Diagrams

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Beam Structure Beam Structure

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Beam Structure Beam Structure

CONFEA New Headquarters

Architects: PPMS Arquitetos Associados
Location: Brasil

shear connection

Moment Diagrams
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Beam Structure Beam Structure

Ma

- Inflection point

- cantilever + simply support

- Ma<Mb

Mb

Moment Diagrams
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Frame Structure
- Influence of the frame stiffness on stress distribution and structure form

Frame
Structure

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- System of Three-Hinged Frame

Simply supported beam Structure

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Rigid Frame Structure

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Two-hinged frame set upon cantilevers of three-hinged frame

- due to the continuity of the frame corner, deflection of the beam
can be reduced differently according to the degree of the column
stiffness and materials.

- This results in control over degree of deflection and hence over

structure form.

- Contrary to the simply beam that need additional stiffening of

supports for receiving the rotation.

- By its own deflection in the rigid frame, vertical reactions are

generated the produce a reverse rotation.

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Special Form Umbrella

Riken
Yamamoto

Special Form Umbrella Special Form Umbrella

Riken Yamamoto

1945 Born in Beijing, China

1968 BA from Department of Architecture,

College of Science and Technology, Nihon University

1971 MA from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Architecture

Research Student, Hara Laboratory at Institute of Industrial Science,
the University of Tokyo

1973Founded Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop Co., Ltd.

http://riken-yamamoto.co.jp/index.html?lng=_Eng

Special Form Umbrella Special Form Umbrella

Namics Techno Core

Function: Research Center

Location: Niigata prefecture, Japan
Architects: Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
Structural Engineer: Arup Japan

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Special Form Umbrella Special Form Umbrella

TOYO ITO

1941 Born in Keijō, Japanese Korea

(Now Seoul, South Korea)

1965 BA from Department of Architecture,

the University of Tokyo

1979 Toyo Ito & Associates

http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html

Special Form Umbrella Special Form Umbrella

Library of Tama Art University

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Architect: Toyo Ito

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Mechanism of complete frame and multi-panel frame
- The rotation will be resisted by the column and deflection is Arthur Vierendeel
obstructed, efficiency will be increased with the number of the (10 April 1852 – 8 November 1940)
column added.

a civil engineer born in Leuven, Belgium. He had

a career as a university professor, and civil
engineer. The structure known as the Vierendeel
truss is named after him.

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- A simulation results on the Vierendeel truss

shear force distribution bending moment distribution

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Vierendeel Truss Grammont, Belgium,1898

- Such trusses do not have the usual triangular

voids seen in a pin–joint truss bridge

- rather employing rectangular openings and rigid

connections in the elements.

- unlike a conventional truss, it must also resist

substantial bending forces.

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- The first bridge of Arthur Vierendeel was built in Avelgem in 1902, - Gustav-Heinemann-Brücke, Berlin, 2005
crossing the Scheldt river.

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- De eerste Vierendeelbrug ,Grammene, Belgium ,1922.

Span=56.16m

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Osera de Ebro Bridge, Spain 2002

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Mechanism of complete frame and multi-panel frame

- According to the shear distribution in a beam, the column are
subjected to a very different degree of bending.

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Long span structure system composed of multi-panel frame

- multi-panel frame continuous through all floors
- Single-story multi-panel frame as support for each two floors

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

HSBC Headquarters in Hong Kong

- Vierendeel Truss

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- The most conspicuous features of

the building are the eight groups of
four aluminium-clad steel columns.
Suspension truss to
hang the floor
- Rise from the foundations up through
the main structure.

- The triangular suspension trusses

Loading from floor transmit
which are locked into these masts,
to the Vierendeel Truss via
supporting the weight of the floor.
the suspension truss and
therefore to the foundation.

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Aluminium-clad steel columns (Vierendeel Truss)

Suspension truss

Suspension component to
hang the floor
Floor slab

To see the details

Vierendeel Truss

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Aluminium-clad steel columns (Vierendeel Truss)

Vierendeel Truss composed Cross brace
by 4 giant steel tube

Brace for resist

the lateral force

Rotational Box beam

connector and bolt
Part of
suspension truss
Part of
suspension truss
Suspension component to
hang the floor

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Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Supreme Federal Tribunal
- Aluminium-clad steel columns (Vierendeel Truss)
Location: Rio, Brazil
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer

Frame Structure Frame Structure

- Triangular suspension trusses

Frame Structure

- Because of the superiority of rectangular geometry in buildings,

the frame structure mechanisms qualify as space definition.

- Frame structure system is the superstructure within which all Beam Grid
other structure mechanisms can be put in action. Structure

- Efficiency to create the space with large span and tall building.

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

Simply parallel beam

- In the parallel beam system only the beam under load will
be deflected.

- The entire structure system participate in the resistance

mechanism against single load.

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

Beam grid Influence of side proportions upon magnitude of biaxial load dispersal

- Through insertion of a transverse beam to the parallel beams,

one part of the load is transmitted to the beams not directly loaded. - two identical beams at right angels to each other receive one half
of the total load.
- The other parallel beams do not participate in the resistance
mechanism against single load. - consequently each support reaction equals ¼ of the total load

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

Influence of side proportions upon magnitude of biaxial load dispersal

- if beam of same section have different length, the stiffer (shorter) beam
takes most of the load.
Section of the grid beam - assuming that the ratio of the side is 1:2, the stiffness of beams will
have a ratio 1:8, hence the shorter beam receives 8/9 of the total load.

Deformation caused by the loading

in the grid beam

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

beam grids for floor plan with unequal sides beam grids for floor plan with unequal sides
- SQUARE GRID - SKEW GRID

- in rectangular floor plans of which one side is markedly longer than - the skew grid avoids the disadvantage of unequal beam lengths
the other. in oblong floor plans.
- in order to allow equal load dispersal in two axes, the long beam - moreover, shorter beam spans at the corners provide additional
must be stiffened accordingly. stiffness, which is achieved like a fixed end condition.

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

SQUARE GRID beam grids for floor plan with unequal sides
- SKEW GRID

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Page 202

Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Luce Memorial Chapel, Taichung, Taiwan

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

SKEW GRID - Geometry of beam pattern

2000 World Expo Timber Pavilion

Architect: Herzog & De Meuron

Location: Hannover, Germany

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Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

SKEW GRID - Grid relationship to lateral space enclosure

Hōshakuji Station
Japan Page 203
Kuma Kengo

Beam Grid Structure Beam Grid Structure

Concerns of the form decision in the design of the beam grids - Consistency of beam grid structure

- Geometry of beam pattern

- Grid relationship to lateral space enclosure

- Consistency of beam grid structure

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Beam Grid Structure Slab Structure

- provided that both sets of beams have approximately equal stiffness, - Structural slab systems: Load transfer and optimization forms
load is dispersed by bending mechanism in two axes.
1. Flat, two-way spanning slab/
- in the case of a point load condition, due to mutual interpenetration beamless floor

also the beams not directly under load deflect. 2. Point-supported slab/mushroom
floor slab with drop panel
- consequently bending resistance is increased. 3. Slab simply supported along two
opposite side/one-way slab

4. Slab supported along three sides

5. Simply supported slab/two-way

(reinforced) slab

6. Ribbed slab/ribbed floor

7. Waffle slab/coffer slab

8. T-beam floor

9. Cantilever slab/fixed end slab

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Slab Structure

- Examples of structural slab system

Slab
Structure

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Slab Structure Slab Structure

- Bearing mechanics of the simply supported slab - Examples of structural slab system

- Beam action
- Total system reaction
- Torsional force mechanics
- Negative cross bending
- Fixed-end action in the diagonals

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Culture Center
Natori, Japan
TOKYO APARTMENT
Idabashi-ku, Tokyo
Sou Fujimoto

Slab Structure Slab Structure

House NA
Suginami-ku, Tokyo
Sou Fujimoto

Taiwan Tower Competition Proposal

Slab Structure Slab Structure

- Examples of box frame system

TOKYO APARTMENT
Idabashi-ku, Tokyo
Sou Fujimoto

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- Examples of box frame system

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Slab Structure Slab Structure

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Slab Structure

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