MARSHALL STRABALADESIGN DIRECTOR - GENSLER

ARCHITECT SEMINAR PRESENTATION

RAHUL SHARMAB.ARCH IV

Career• 1961 – Born in Seattle, U.S.• 1988 - Graduated from Harvard

University• 1988 – Joined Skidmore Owings and

Merrill (SOM), Chicago• 1996 - Joined Gensler global

architectural firm as Director of Design

Honors• Burnham Prize of Chicago Architecture Club• American Institute of Architect Honor

Awards (2004, 2005)• ASHRAE Excellence in Engineering Awards

(1998, 1999)• USITT Architecture Award (2001).

Philosophy• A “Performance Designer”

Rather than clinging to a particular style, Strabala views his designs more in terms of their function.“Style is an odd thing, mostly a category of time. I seek a timelessness in all my projects. I want to create a feeling of permanence over a particular style”.

He looks at every project with fresh eyes and a point of view that will allow constant discovery and continued improvement.

Every element of the building needs to perform two purposes. It integrates art and science, aesthetics and function, technology and beauty and knowledge and perception.“

There may be newer and faster computer tools and modeling systems to visualize building designs, but the ultimate tool that will create buildings is the human mind.

Got inspired by small Japanese and Korean architects, including Tadao Ando of Japan.

Projects• Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter super-tall office, residential and

retail tower in Shanghai, China, scheduled for completion in 2014.Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building at 808-meters Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, a 420-meter office, hotel retail and apartment complex to be completed in 2009.

• Besides Strabala has designed more than 50 prominent buildings worldwide

Discovery Tower, Houston, Texas, 2010

Houston Ballet, Houston, Texas, 2011

LG Kangnam Building, Seoul, South Korea, 1997

Case Study - Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China, 2008-2014

• Marshall Strabala got this project for his firm GENSLER after a 21-month-long competition ended inMarch 2008, when he beat out Foster + Partners, Kohn Pederson Fox, and even his old firm, SOM.

• 632 metres (2,073 ft), have 128 stories, and contain an area of 380,000 m2.

• It will be the tallest building in China and is slated to be the second tallest in the world.

• Tower features office space, luxury residences, a high-end hotel, retail space, restaurants and a public observatory.

Shanghai World Financial

Centre, 2008(Kohn Pederson

Fox) Jin Mao Tower, 2008(SOM)

Shanghai Tower, 2014

(Gensler)Tower features a soft triangular shape, the tower rotates as it goes skyward and concludes with an open-top design.

As the shape rises, a "strike" or open notch curves up and around the building which is an engineering feature to control the wind up and away from the building.

Of the Past

Of the Present

Of the Future

central core mega columns

floor plates inner skin outer-wall structure

second skin

Uses 32 – 35% less structural materials ( concrete and steel ) than any other conventional buildings. It results in savings of 58million US$

With the double skin , the building will function like a thermos bottle. This allows it to

• harvest and use daylight,

• reduce artificial lighting to a minimum,

• increase the insulation of the building's interior

• reduce energy consumption and energy costs.“

Double skin Building

The development will be separated into eight distinct bioclimatic zones, with each having its own atrium, lush gardens, indoor air controls and panoramic 360° views of city.

The building will be situated within a 10,000 sqm open green space that will become both a public park and the front entry to the tower.

Sustainability

• Innovative skin technology is one of many sustainable design and renewable energy systems in the tower.

• The spiral shape facilitates vortex shedding and creates an asymmetrical surface to reduce wind loads on the building by 24%. reducing the structural load on the building.

• The building’s spiraling parapet collects rainwater, used for the tower’s HVAC systems.

• Wind turbines located directly beneath the parapet generate on-site power. Thus energy consumption of building is 35-40 % less than any other conventional building.

• 40% less water consumption i.e. they save 675 million L/ annum = 245 Olympic size swimming pools

Thank You