Recognizing tall buildings as a natural architectural phenomenon due to their efficient urban land use as well as their inherent symbolic power, and appreciating sustainable design as zeitgeist, this paper presents various design strategies to produce sustainable tall buildings.
Adapted from his lecture given at Gresham College in London earlier in 2023, Roger Ridsdill Smith, Head of Structural Engineering at Foster + Partners, considers the evolution of tall buildings through history and investigates how their status might be reconsidered in light of todays climate emergency.
This paper reviews and examines shortfalls of tall buildings found in the literature to inform future developments. The paper gathers a vast amount of fragmented criticism and concerns, and organizes them around the three pillars of sustainability: social, economic, and environmental.
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Keywords: Tall Buildings, Sustainability, SPeAR. Introduction. A building can only be classed as sustainable if it is so in the context of the total impact that it has on the society in which it is placed.
However, debates persist about the true sustainability of timber in tall buildings, considering hybridisation with other materials and potential impacts on forests. Two projects exemplify the future of sustainable tall buildings.
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The book starts by critically appraising the sustainability of tall building architecture past and present, before demonstrating innovative ways for future tall buildings to be designed. These include themes such as climatically responsive architecture, siting a tall building in the city...
