Structural Efficiency of Tall Buildings: by Means of Parametric Design

Recently, cooperation between engineers and architects in the design process has faded, specifically in tall building design procedures. While “the architectural form” directly affects a building’s structural behavior, inadequate considerations of the “schematic design process” can reduce structural efficiency. This presentation is a part of an ongoing research program whose main purpose is to address structural behavior in the architectural form during the tall building design process. In this research, tall buildings schematic architectural forms were parametrically (in Grasshopper plaguine in Rhinoceros software) generated based on the base plan, top plan, and a vertical transformation method (tapered forms were focused in this research). A diagrid structure with a tubular cross-section mapped on architectural forms. Then seismic load applies to each form with a statically equivalent method. After all, the structure of all models analyzed in a parametric structure plaguine (Karamba) and a comparison is made between all models structural efficiency.