General Information
Project Type
Function / usage: |
Office building |
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Material: |
Concrete structure |
Architectural style: |
Deconstructivist |
Location
Location: |
Milan, Milano, Lombardy, Italy |
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Address: | piazza Tre Torri |
Coordinates: | 45° 28' 40.31" N 9° 9' 18.77" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
height | 175 m | |
number of floors (above ground) | 44 |
Materials
building structure |
reinforced concrete
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Case Studies and Applied Products
![Twisted highrise architecture from Zaha Hadid](https://files.structurae.net/files/300x200/1/generalitower-01-peri-300cmyk.jpg)
Twisted highrise architecture from Zaha Hadid
The 170 m high office tower in Milan elegantly winds its way upwards and bears the signature of Zaha Hadid. Through the interplay of perfectly coordinated formwork and scaffolding solutions on the basis of a well thought-out safety conce ... [more]
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Generali Tower (Lo Storto (The Twisted One in English) is a skyscraper completed in 2017 in Milan, Italy that reaches a height of 191.5 m (628 ft) with 44 floors (+ 3 floors basement), and a total floor area of about 67,000 square metres (720,000 sq ft). Its designer is the Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. The geometry of the building is that of a warping shape, where both the floors dimension and their orientation vary along the tower axis.
The structure is concrete and composite. A central core acts as main horizontal stiffening and resisting element. Foundations are of mixed raft and piles type, where the piles are used as settlement reduction devices. The base raft is a 2.5-metre (8.2 ft) thick concrete slab, resting on 64 piles arranged in clusters and points under the main load points. In order to resis the main torsional effects due to the warped column arrangement, the core lintels above main doors feature composite solutions with a mixed use of steel elements, rebar and concrete. Due to the specific form-dependent deformation effects, a highly sophisticated stage analysis both for construction and long term effects has been effected. A steel, free form podium for commercial use surrounds the base of the building.
The building hosts offices of Assicurazioni Generali, the third largest insurance group in the world by revenue.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Generali Tower"
and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
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20068040 - Published on:
17/11/2015 - Last updated on:
24/06/2020