Monday, February 25, 2008

The Birth of a Skyscraper

...And...twins! The main one will stand 65 storeys tall, and the mini tower, at around 35 floors. Putting together the elevator cores took about an hour a piece. Each floor has to be scored into the plywood core about a centimeter deep on all sides and then split down the middle for the section cut (you can see the section line at the opening in the base which runs through the center of both cores).
Floor plates are added to the elevator core of the 65 storey tower. At the bottom is a 10 floor parking garage that collides into the tower, with the craziest circulation plan I've come up with yet. When that's presentable I'll give you a peek...

Here's a sneak preview of a 4th year student's tower they're finishing up now from last semester. Once all of my plates are chopped, I'll be moving onto soldering the structure together, like this one.

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