Super high-rise buildings
OwnerJohn G. Maryoninventor
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Abstract
A very tall but slender multi-use building having at least, and preferably substantially more than, 100 human-occupiable stories. The main structural element of the building is a hollow, vertical prism of reinforced concrete made up of interconnected, substantially planar, vertical walls. Most of the human-occupied floor space is outside the prism. The prism carries substantially the entire load of at least that portion of the building above about the 75th floor.
Claims40
A super high-rise building for human occupation having at least 100 vertically spaced, human-occupiable stories comprising:
- a foundation;
- and
- a hollow vertical prism of reinforced concrete, mounted on the foundation and being at least 100 stories high, for transmitting to the foundation substantially all loads above at least the 75th floor of the building in a manner such that automatic lateral rigidity, stability, and strength are attained, the sides of said prism having a plurality of apertures for such purposes as allowing human movement between the inside and outside of the prism, the portion of substantially any horizontal circumference of said prism which is occupied by said apertures being less than about 25% of said horizontal circumference.
A super high-rise building for human occupation having at least 100 vertically spaced human-occupiable stories comprising:
- a foundation;
- and
- first through fifth vertically oriented reinforced concrete members integrally interconnected to one another in a horizontal series, each of the first, third, and fifth members being a corner pier mounted on the foundation, and each of the second and fourth members being a wall extending between a major portion of the height of the associated corner piers for bracing the corner piers against one another and transmitting loads applied to the walls to the corner piers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.