Hsb turning torso santiago calatrava biography

In addition, each unit has one cantilever conical slab with a maximum thickness of 90 centimeters 35 inches that transfers the loads of the floor columns to the structural core. The facade is made of approximately 2, curved aluminum panels and 2, flat glass windows. There are some panels in each unit. Exterior of the Turning Torso features a black granite reflecting pool and a granite entrance path.

Granite is also used in some places within the building, notably in the lobby. A corridor located at first-floor connects the tower to a secondary building, which contains the parking garage and support services. The entire building is handicapped accessible and features a highly advanced environmental design. Moreover, the engineering technique applied allows for an extraordinarily efficient method of construction.

The spine is later fractionated into multiple smaller struts to embrace each floor of all units. The extrinsic skeletal system resists compression and transfers shear forces to the concrete core, at the top of each unit, resisting wind load and damping external vibrations. The slabs, square at the core and conical at the edge, are made of cast in-situ reinforced concrete.

Five slabs of each unit are supported by 11 steel columns. Conical portion suspends as a cantilever structure to transfer floor column load into the structural core with the support of pile foundation, while achieving a maximum thickness of 90 centimeters. The rotation of the floors results in uneven dimensions. The ground floor covers square meters while the top most has an area of square meters.

The first and second units are left to accommodate offices within square meters.

Hsb turning torso santiago calatrava biography

Turning Torso is based on a sculpture by Calatrava, called Twisting Torso, which is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Zurich to meet Calatrava, and ask him to design a residential building based on the idea of a structure of twisting cubes. This is a solid immobile building constructed in nine segments of five-storey pentagons that twist relative to each other as it rises; the topmost segment is twisted 90 degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor.

The exterior of the building is covered by glass panels and aluminum. Each of the cube has six floors. Spaces Coexist in the building of luxury homes and offices. The offices are located in the first two buckets, with a total area of 4, square meters. The buckets three new shelters housing whose surface varies between 45 and square meters.