EP2758609A1

EP2758609A1 - Ecological terraced skyscraper building

Info

Publication number: EP2758609A1
Application number: EP12748774.2A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Piero ALESSANDRINI
Original assignee: Italian Designer Srl
Current assignee: Italian Designer Srl
Priority date: 2011-09-19
Filing date: 2012-06-28
Publication date: 2014-07-30
Also published as: ITRM20110490A1; WO2013041981A1

Abstract

Ecological terraced skyscraper building characterized by the vertical extension of the structure according to a five block (150) superimposition method, each block constituted by blocks with equilateral-triangle base, having size gradually increasing with height and whose superimposition occurs by means of a diagonal direction constituting a deep terraced groove (200), i.e. an actual externally-open channel which symbolically depicts a staircase extended towards the sky, creating the balconies (600) on which a plant layer (500) is present,and finally in that a crowning tripod (300) is present on the top of said building (100) while on the ground surface a load-bearing ground element (700) is present.

Description

"Ecological terraced skyscraper building"

Description Field of the art

The present invention patent application generally refers to the field of building construction design, and more specifically refers to the design of an innovative skyscraper building.

The invention is applicable to any field, where one such skyscraper building can be advantageously used, but preferably it regards the architectural field.

Prior art

As is known, with the term 'skyscraper' it is intended a large-size, vertically-extended building, generically constituted by a large number of inhabitable floors.

Currently, constructions of this type are present in nearly all world cities. Some of these structures are characterized by the incredible heights reached, others by particular architectural elements and still others by entirely original stereometrical conformations. Notwithstanding the current, numerous architecture and city planning debates on whether or not it is opportune to construct skyscrapers, it cannot be denied that the continuous demographic increase of large cities drives (also from a rational infrastructure standpoint) the design of urbanized space via the construction of increasingly higher, capacious and functional buildings.

Nevertheless, it must be noted that an objective analysis conducted on most of the skyscrapers known to the public up to now shows complete extraneousness of the buildings with respect to the surrounding environment. Indeed, even if such buildings are rather functional and capacious, they do not tend to minimize the 'people container' aspect; common thought regards such buildings with numerous floors as 'people containers'.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention generally consists of obtaining the design of a skyscraper capable of maximizing the abovementioned comfort aspects and at the same time drastically minimizing the impact of such buildings on the surrounding environment. Such inventive characteristics are obtained by validly deeming that the natural complement of each architectural construction, intended as a relationship between man and nature, has always been vegetation. By providing this irreplaceable vitality, the inventive skyscraper ensures that it is not merely a simple container of people; rather, its essence is also a synthesis of the natural relationship between man and his original habitat. From this synthesis, there derives the overall structural image of the inventive skyscraper, in which man and nature, in perfect harmony with each other, symbolically climb towards the sky, symbolically ascending a plant staircase obtained on the faces of the skyscraper itself.

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention are clear from the detailed description of an exemplifying and non-limiting embodiment thereof, illustrated below.

Description of the invention

The innovative concept underlying the present invention consists of providing for and obtaining the design of an innovative skyscraper building with triangular base, preferably with equilateral triangle base, and with a progressive backward movement towards the top of the face obtained by means of the superimposition of blocks that are upwardly tapered.

Said innovative skyscraper building is particularly and closely characterized in that said block superimposition occurs on each of the three vertical surfaces according to a diagonal direction constituted by a deep terraced groove, i.e. by an actual externally-open channel. More specifically, said innovative and characterizing terraced groove comes to form a balcony portion, marked by the presence of a plant layer. In addition, said balcony portions lie on and will be reached via French windows, only from some of the rooms of the floors forming said inventive skyscraper building. In this manner, one inventively obtains a skyscraper building externally characterized by the presence of a plant staircase extended towards the sky, which in addition to marking the vertical surface of the three constituent walls, will symbolically depict a staircase ideally extended towards the sky. In completion of the structure, it is provided that on the top of said inventive building, a further structural element is present represented by a crowning tripod, having a height comprised between 60 m and 3 m, more preferably comprised between 50 m and 30 m and still more preferably is 40 m.

In order to render the building even less impacting, and hence more in harmony with the surrounding environment, said inventive building can provide that at the level of at least the top floor, there is a greenhouse capable of achieving a preferred setting for the cultivation of plants.

In order to render said inventive skyscraper even more perfectly compatible with the environment, it is provided that most of the existing transparent surfaces, equal to thousands of square meters overall, can be constituted by particular infrared ray screening materials, which by means of a suitable perimeter circuit generate the photovoltaic effect and thus electrical energy.

Another, further characteristic maximizing the eco-sustainability of the present invention provides that on the top floors, a great water storage tank is obtained that is capable of autonomously ensuring the watering of the vegetation present in said inventive skyscraper building.

In conclusion of that set forth above, it follows that the specific object of the present invention is that of obtaining a skyscraper building that is very functional and that mainly has a minimum visual and environmental impact with regard to the surrounding environment. In particular, such characteristics are achieved via the obtainment of a building of triangular plan architectural type, with tapered faces, which overall greatly reduce the visual impact, ensuring a natural lighting that is sufficient for the streets below, and which due to a more dynamic extension eliminate the great architectural gap between the base and the actual top of the building itself. Another well-known and widely represented characteristic of this building is represented by the very pleasant, inventive presence of vegetation on its vertical surfaces, precisely harmonized by several terraced levels and extended towards the sky. In addition, due to the direct continuation of said terracing onto each of the three vertical surfaces of the building, a very pleasant, unique and continuous helical conformation of the aforesaid plant staircase is inventively created, by means of a total vision of the complex itself.

Other characteristics of the present invention are described in the following detailed description of one or more specific embodiments, protected by the various dependent claims.

Brief description of the drawings

The previous advantages, as well as other advantages and characteristics of the present invention, will be illustrated by making reference to the enclosed figures, which are to be considered merely illustrative and non-limiting or non-binding with regard to the present patent application, in which:

FIGURE 1 represents a front view of the entire skyscraper building according to the present invention; FIGURE 2 represents a front view of a portion of the skyscraper building according to the present invention;

FIGURE 3 represents a front view of a sectioned portion of the skyscraper building according to the present invention;

FIGURE 4 represents a plan view of an agglomerate of two separate skyscraper buildings according to the present invention;

FIGURE 5 represents a plan view of an agglomerate of three separate skyscraper buildings according to the present invention.

As stated above, it should be noted that the borders, shapes and areas shown in the aforesaid figures must not be considered as limiting of the invention, since this is preferably directed towards any type, shape, size, diameter, color and translucence so long as it does not depart from the intrinsic concept of the innovative ecological terraced skyscraper building.

Preferred embodiments of the invention

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the figures and to a preferred embodiment thereof shown in such figures, in which identical reference numbers were used for the same components.

With reference to the different figures, these show an innovative skyscraper building. As shown in Figure 1, such building 100 is vertically extended according to a block 150 superimposition method, each block having size gradually increasing with height, each ideally constituted by blocks with equilateral triangle base whose superimposition occurs not by means of a horizontal direction but by means of a diagonal direction constituted by a deep terraced groove 200, i.e. by an actual externally-open channel that marks the vertical surface of each of the three constituent walls and which symbolically depicts a staircase extended towards the sky. In particular, the end of each aforesaid deep terraced groove 200 continues onto the end of each deep terraced groove 200 of the contiguous vertical face of the innovative building 100, in a manner so as to obtain a marking of the structure of the entire building that is dynamic, unique and (inventively) nearly helical overall. As is clear in Figures 1-3, said deep terraced groove 200 represents the balconies 600 by means of the horizontal portions, only of the portions of those floors that lie on the same. As can be seen in more detail in Fig. 2, said balconies 600 are accessible from the relative floor portions by means of the French windows 250 and the horizontal portion of said balconies 600 is embellished by a plant layer 500 having a height preferably comprised between 40 cm and 100 cm, and more preferably is 70 cm.

In completion of the entire conformation, as can be seen in Fig. 1, on the top of said inventive building 100 a further structural and decorative element is present, represented by a crowning tripod 300; on the ground surface, meanwhile, there is a load-bearing ground element 700 on which the blocks 150 are ideally set. With regard to the size of said inventive building 100, it should be noted that this is merely indicative and non-limiting of the invention, since the constituent technical characteristics also make the building adaptable to the space and morphology present at the installation site. Nevertheless, the dimensions of a preferred embodiment of said inventive building 100 can be expressed and completely summarized in a total height, comprehensive of the aforesaid crowning tripod 300 and of the load-bearing ground element 700, equal to 320 m for a total of about 70 floors. Specifically, said preferred embodiment consists of 5 superimposed blocks 150 which gradually decrease in size with height; such blocks are constituted, with the exception of the upper or apical block, by an ideal repetition of the block itself every 12 floors, i.e. every 48 m, and in a manner such that the lower block 150, i.e. base block, is constituted by a base edge equal to 80 m and that the upper block 150, i.e. apical block, is constituted by a base edge equal to 54 m. As can be observed in more detail in Figs. 2 and 3, the preferable dimensions of the deep terraced groove 200, i.e. of the single balconies 600, are constituted by a nearly fixed height 220, for structural grounds equal to 3 m, by an extension of the floor 210 comprised between 4.5 m and 1.5 m and more preferably equal to 3 meters, by an extension of the ceiling 230 comprised between 3 m and 0.5 m and more preferably equal to 1.5 and finally by a width of each balcony 600 that is variable but such to obtain at least five separate balconies on each deep terraced groove 200.

With regard to the versatility of the present invention, as represented in Figs. 4 and 5, it must be noted that on site and wherever possible, even more than one inventive building 100 could be built, and the entire construction will have truly exceptional aesthetic beauty. As can be observed in Fig. 4, such versatility characteristic is inventively amplified by the particular triangular plan of the building 100, which allows the achievement of two or more inventive buildings mutually connected by means of two respective corners. In Fig. 5, said three buildings 100 form an inventive and variously employable inner courtyard 400 that is entirely delimited and protected by the same buildings.

Of course, the information provided herein is merely exemplifying and absolutely non- limiting of the range of the present invention, as this only serves to assist a man skilled in the art in comprehending several possible applications and embodiments of the finding. Indeed, the present invention provides for further alternative embodiments (within several size variation limits) with regard to its structure, without departing from its present protective scope. For example, in an alternative embodiment, it is provided that if up to now an ideal repetition of the block 150 every 12 floors has been described, there is no reason why said ideal repetition of the block 150 cannot occur in a range of 6 to 18 floors, and nothing prohibits that overall there can be at least 2 blocks 150. Also, with regard to the dimensions of the inventive building 100, these can be summarized overall in a total height comprised between 50 m and 590 m, more preferably between 150 m and 490 m and still more preferably between 250 m and 390 m for a total of at least 16 floors. Another alternative embodiment provides that the lower block 150, i.e. base block, is constituted by a base edge size equal to a range of 68 m to 120 m and that the upper block 150, or apical block, is constituted by a base edge size equal to a range of 42 m to 94 m.

The present invention has been described as a non-limiting illustrative example, in accordance with some preferred embodiments, but it is intended that possible variations and/or modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the relative protective scope, as defined by the following dependent claims.

Claims

1. Ecological terraced skyscraper building characterized in that said building (100) is vertically extended according to a block (150) superimposition method, such blocks having size gradually increasing with height, each ideally constituted by blocks with equilateral triangle base whose superimposition occurs by means of a diagonal direction constituting a deep terraced groove (200), i.e. an actual externally-open channel, in that each aforesaid deep terraced groove (200) continues onto the end of each deep terraced groove (200) of the contiguous vertical face of the building (100), in a manner so as to obtain an overall helical design of the structure of the entire building (100), in that said deep terraced groove (200) represents the balconies (600) by means of the horizontal portions, only of the portions of those floors that lie on the same horizontal portions, in that said balconies (600) are accessible from said floor portions by means of the relative French windows (250), in that a plant layer (500) is present on said balconies (600), and finally in that on the top of said building (100), a crowning tripod (300) is present while on the ground surface a load-bearing ground element (700) is present.

The minimum number of blocks is 5 for 12 floors with 4 terraces per side; or 10 blocks for 6 floors with 2 terraces per side, or 7 blocks for 9 floors with 3 terraces per side.

2. Skyscraper building according to claim 1 , characterized in that the dimensions are summarized overall in a total height, including the aforesaid crowning tripod (300) and the load-bearing ground element (700), equal to 320 m for a total of 70 floors, in that each of the 5 superimposed blocks (150) with size increasing with height is constituted, with the exception of the upper or apical block (150), by an ideal repetition of the same block (150) every 12 floors, in that the lower block (150), i.e. base block, is constituted by a base edge equal to 80 m while the upper block (150), i.e. apical block, is constituted by a base edge equal to 54 m.

3. Skyscraper building according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the preferable dimensions of the deep terraced groove (200), i.e. of the single balconies (600), are constituted by a height (220) equal to 3 m, by an extension of the floor (210) comprised between 4.5 m and 1.5 m and more preferably equal to 3 meters, by an extension of the ceiling (230) comprised between 3 m and 0.5 m and more preferably equal to 1.5 m and finally by a width of each balcony (600) that is variable but such to obtain at least five separate balconies (600) on each deep terraced groove (200).

4. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ideal repetition of each block (150), i.e. the repetition of each deep terraced groove (200), occurs in a range of 6 to 18 floors, in that the size of the building (100), including the aforesaid crowning tripod (300) and the load-bearing ground element (700), is summarized overall in a total height comprised between 50 m and 590 m, more preferably between 150 m and 490 m and still more preferably between 250 m and 390 m for a total of at least 16 floors and finally in that the overall number of blocks (150) is equal to at least 2.

5. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the lower block (150), i.e. base block, is constituted by a base edge size equal to a range of 68 m to 120 m and that the upper block (150), i.e. apical block, is constituted by a base edge size equal to a range of 42 m to 94 m.

6. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the crowning tripod (300) has a height comprised between 60 m and 3 m, more preferably comprised between 50 m and 30 m and still more preferably is equal to 40 m.

7. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the plant layer (500) has a height preferably comprised between 40 cm and 100 cm, and more preferably is equal to 70 cm.

8. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least two of said buildings (100) can be obtained as agglomerates mutually connected via two corners and in that at least three buildings (100) can be obtained as agglomerates mutually connected via the respective corners in a manner so as to form an inner courtyard (400).

9. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a greenhouse is obtained at the top floors for the cultivation of plants, and in that a water storage tank is obtained at the top floors, such tank also used for watering the plants present in the building.

10. Skyscraper building according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that most of the existing transparent surfaces are constituted by particular infrared ray screening materials, and such materials, by means of a suitable perimeter circuit of each single transparent area, generate the photovoltaic effect and thus electrical energy.