Design of 60 Storey RCC & CLT Connected Twin Towers in Al-Khobar
Project Overview
To catch up with the urban renaissance that has been happening in Saudi Araba. and as an effective element of the vision of 2030, Saudi Arabia has built up a major economical, educational, engineering, and commercial projects that will help making Saudi Arabia all the more an advanced, stable, and more secure condition to be more pulled in by investors and tourists. In this manner, we pick the eastern area to set up our project, where the city has been receiving numerous conservative and designing activities over the most recent couple of years.
We choose King Fahd road because it’s one of the most important roads in the eastern province as it connects Dammam and AL-Khobar together, and a second reason that lots of the big Saudi and foreign companies are in that area along with a couple of international hotels, which makes that area the perfect spot for our project.
Our design project is the design of a 60 storey Connected Twin Tower from the top and bottom using two different slab floor systems which are; Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC), and Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). The Twin Towers are 40 m apart and the total area of the whole building is 120m × 60m. The Twin Towers are 60 storeys each, one is a residential tower and the other one is the commercial tower. One of the main objectives of the senior design project is designing a unique 4 storey connection between the two towers. The bottom storey of the connection part has a glass slab pathway and that what makes the building a tourists’ attraction place.
Project Objectives
One of the main objectives of the senior design project is designing a unique 4 storey connection between the two towers. The bottom storey of the connection part has a glass slab pathway and that what makes the building a tourists’ attraction place. The other objectives, the building is to be designed twice using two different slab floor systems (RCC) & (CLT). Afterward, the analysis of (RCC) & (CLT) slabs floor systems is to be performed to compare the advantages and disadvantages between both systems.
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