question about how height of building on slope is determined

[TheHunt]

I am doing a diagram of this building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Towers

the building is 110m tall but it is on a slope such that the tallest part of the building is on the highest end of the road. How would the height have been determined?



would the 110m be the height of the red line or the blue line?

furthermore, can anyone offer advice on how to visually show a slope in a diagram or perhaps point to some examples of other diagrams of buildings on slopes?

[Anders Franzén]

When doing a drawing I would want to include the whole building, from the lowest lying entrance if not the structural bottom.
However, I don't know if 110 m is the red or blue line in your case. You have to get a facade drawing.

I've done many drawings for buildings in Hong Kong, which have many buildings on slopes. I usually include some representation of terrain in my drawings:

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7337
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=98002

Damien Koh went another route, omitting the terrain:

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7723

[WhipperSnapper]

Height of a building is measured from the main floor where the main entrance/lobby is located. That doesn't work if you want to draw the slope beneath the main floor. Just gotta pick either height or drawing. A description that provides how the height was measured can always be provided

[koops65]

Show the entire building, worry about the terrain later...

[Artemco]

the height should be measured from the lower part of outer wall (blue line). But if the official source measures only from other point and you can draw from view without cutting building parts, you can omit the maximum measuring

[Brontosa]

@The Hunt, specially to you, a theme love, trigonometry, algebra, triangles, poly etc, you have learned that in your school. Made a simple example with similar dimentions, but you do the setbacks and altitudes of volumes right according the real construction, regards MK have your fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry use google to find out the sin cos etc.



See my Hatshepsut in Luxor, a Temple with slope ramps,visited personally with wife in our archeaology studies travels, it is so... https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=69170

[Quilmeño89]

Originally Posted by TheHunt

I am doing a diagram of this building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Towers

the building is 110m tall but it is on a slope such that the tallest part of the building is on the highest end of the road. How would the height have been determined?



would the 110m be the height of the red line or the blue line?

furthermore, can anyone offer advice on how to visually show a slope in a diagram or perhaps point to some examples of other diagrams of buildings on slopes?

I prefer to take the height of everything that is above the ground. I think it's the most logical (floors are counted above ground and below ground, so...).

Here is an example of several buildings I made for a city with extreme slopes:

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=3576

[Quilmeño89]

And I add something: if the slope is slight, I paint it exactly the same color as the ground line on the diagram. This way it is less noticeable.