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Originally Posted by Gummozebra
The slanted columns look nice. I wonder how well it holds up during an earthquake though. Especially when they essentially holding the entire 50-story building, ... I'm not an engineer but would love to hear other expert's opinions on this
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Depending on how they are built (and also the circumstances at which they are), they are arguably more effective and efficient built that way than building them the regular way.
Even for seismic considerations where lateral cross-bracing support and shear forces come into consideration.
There's a lot of Pythagorean math, and physics force-loading calculations that could go into explaining why, but suffice it to say, there's a reason why in almost any case you see a highrise tower are built on a "stilts" configuration like this, they inevitable and invariably almost always look like this (the column support, I mean).
But the caveat of course, is that it depends on what you're building that tower on top of (i.e the ground and subterranean conditions) and how that load has to be transferred down. In some places you simply can't build it like this.
If you look at the geological map of this area, this project is being built atop decent bedrock, so they're in good shape.
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