US 9,267,306 B2Granted

Multi-storey buildings built over road air-spaces

OwnerAvraham Suhamiinventor

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Abstract

The invention discloses multi-storey building structures of different sizes and purposes, built on long-span beams laid on cornerstones of minimal dimensions, on the opposite sidewalks of streets and the medians separating street lanes. Such buildings basically occupy the air-space above streets and roads and may be used for parking garages, residential, office and commercial space or for an optimal combination of them. Parking garages built on the air-space above intersections of roads may enable entry from any direction and exit to a different one, with or without parking and greatly contribute to the rationalization of car traffic in modern mega-cities. Such multi-storey buildings comprising in addition to parking garages, office, residential and commercial space, may save valuable timing wasted in going from one place to another.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A multi-story structure extending on an air space over an intersection formed by two intersecting traffic roadway;

wherein each roadway intersection comprising at least four lanes, at least two of the lanes leading to ramps extending from and into the multi-story structure, and at least two pass-through opposing traffic lanes under the multi-story structure with a roundabout structure located in the middle of said intersection;
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the multi-story structure comprising four cornerstone foundations such that the structure is erected on four cornerstone support columns connected to said four cornerstone foundations;
each cornerstone support column and foundation located on an intersection of two adjacent sidewalks bordering the outermost lanes of two adjacent roadway of said intersecting traffic roadway, wherein said four cornerstone support columns are interlinked by one of reinforced concrete layer and steel beams positioned under said roadway;
and the roundabout structure further comprising a central support column supporting and connected to the middle of the multi-story structure.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/958,564Filed 4 Aug 2013
Published: US 2015/0033647 A15 Feb 2015
Granted: 23 Feb 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

E04H 6/10
Garages for many vehicles: without mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles, e.g. with helically-arranged fixed ramps, with movable ramps
E04B 1/34
Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs: extraordinary…
E04H 1/04
Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation, e.g. summer houses: apartment houses arranged in two or more levels
E04H 14/00
Buildings for combinations of different purposes not covered by any single one