The Goddess Shines on America

Regarding what the new Alice Building looks like, it's actually very simple. Alice just plagiarized the Shanghai Tower directly.

It’s exactly the same building, but it’s a pity that the latter was born in Lujiazui, Shanghai around 2016, and Alice now moved it intact and named it herself.

Now that it comes to this interesting topic, Alice certainly doesn't mind everyone admiring her work. In fact, for an obvious reason, she has already packed the laptop and related materials together. So as soon as the topic came up, she only needed to go to the next building and come back again.

"Come on, everyone take a look."

The world’s first notebook computer invented by Toshiba, Japan, the T1100 was turned on. On the light green screen, the crude AutoCAD interface was opened, and then a three-dimensional structure drawing was displayed in front of the two of them.

"Oh, my goodness." As the developer of the software, Warnock first expressed his opinion: "What a complicated graphics, you did it all by yourself!?"

The building shown in the picture is of course the full picture of the later Shanghai Tower. Even if the two viewers were just simple programmers, they would instinctively be amazed by this ingenious skyscraper. What's more, if the content of the "Los Angeles Times" is true, the entire 100-story building, from the external outline to the internal structure, can be made by the little girl in front of me!

"There is an architectural design that I set up to assist, anyway, let me introduce it to you. Big John, look at it, this is the work I made with our products."

Nothing can more arouse people's confidence and interest, especially after this building is completed, it will definitely serve as the resident of many companies under Alice. Who can not be curious about its specific situation?

Undoubtedly, even if this building is put in 2106, it is the tallest building in China, a landmark building in Shanghai and even Lujiazui, and it has attracted worldwide attention. Therefore, when she moved the original house to downtown Los Angeles, the effect will be exactly the same.

Six hundred and thirty-two meters totaled two thousand and seventy feet. In this country where both metric and imperial units are written on the speedometer, any number is a record-breaking number.

According to Alice's post-construction conceptual drawing, the two viewers can clearly see that the exterior of the building spirally rises, and the opening of the building surface rotates from the bottom to the top, showing a unique slender beauty. Moreover, as a building made of modern materials, after the lights are lit, the whole body is shining with luminous green and milky white light, just like a translucent crystal tube!

"The floor space of the architectural theme is not exaggerated, at least relative to its height. Anyway, I am also a lady. How can I build a big iron block like a polar bear? Look at the translucent look and look at the small waist. Twisted, seeing how tall she is, of course our Alice Building must be a lady!"

The girl chirped and laughed, while Warnock was observing more how his little boss used the same software to design the entire building. As the "old" version, as a developer, he certainly knows where the performance limits are and maximizes the use of limited resources. Is it true that he has created too many strange wonder girls?

"In contrast..." In turn, Alice dragged a long tone and said: "The old Alice Building is not good~"

Just kidding, anyone who has been reborn will instinctively look for examples from previous lives when it comes to what skyscrapers should be built. Since Oscar has said to build a record-breaking mansion, Alice's first thought is of course the masculine, strong ethnic sense, and exceptionally stocky Chinese Zun. But think about it carefully, is a skyscraper with its own name really suitable for the heavy look of Chinese Zun?

Of course, it should be the merger of China and the West, a slender lady standing in Lujiazui on the Bund.

"I know that many skyscrapers have multifunctional designs, such as paid viewing platforms and hotel areas, but this building is definitely my private property. I will build the office here in the future~"

No matter how globalized the economy is in the future, Alice will not be able to really handle all official duties at home, even if she buys a luxury house in Beverly or Hampton. A decent CEO's office is the general trend, and considering that he really has investments all over the world, intensive management is even more imperative.

"Look, here is my design for the wind resistance of the building." She operated the software and said: "From the sky above, its shape is like a guitar pick. As the height rises, each floor The distortion is nearly one degree. This design can delay the wind flow, because the wind will form a vortex shedding effect when the wind surrounds the building, causing the skyscraper to shake violently. According to calculations, my shape design can reduce the lateral force by 24%."

Merely theoretical data is not enough. This is also proved by wind tunnel tests by the Institute of Architecture. That British designer, Remus Byrne, was successfully dug over by Alice. With such an old man, it would be very fast to piece together a new research institute that was sufficient. As for the wind tunnel test, it turns out that if the initial model data is completely correct, the experiment itself is of course a cutscene.

"Tell me about the internal structure. After all, you will also be working here in the future." She added: "The main building has 118 floors, of which the basement and the second floor are the dining area, retail area and subway access. Underground passage, after all, office workers, buy things by the way from 9 to 5."

"The three to five floors underground are the parking lot and the equipment room. There is nothing to say about it. There will definitely be a parking lot outside the building. It's really not enough. A multifunctional activity center with a capacity of 1,200 people is designed in the podium."

Then it’s the point, the internal structure of a whole building: “The whole building is divided into eight zones, the first zone is one to five floors, with large meeting rooms, multi-functional spaces, and some retail malls. Going up The second area is the eighth to nineteenth floors, and every company needs foreign guests. This area is used to provide accommodation. Of course, if there are hard-working employees who want to stay overnight after get off work, the building property will certainly not Forbidden."

"In addition, considering the problem of elevator transfers, between each district upwards, there is a sky lobby composed of double-layer curtain walls every 120 degrees. Although our view of Los Angeles is the same, from a few hundred The feeling of looking out from an altitude of meters, no matter what, it will be very good."

"When it comes to evacuation elevators, I allocated them like this." In the design of super high-rise buildings, fire protection and traffic are always the top priorities. People can't help but listen carefully: "One goes straight from the first floor to the 89th floor, and the second from the 89th floor. Access to the 96th floor, 3 from the 96th floor to the 100th floor; another 13 elevators for safe evacuation are set up to serve 4 different refuge floors. Of course, ordinary people usually don’t need to understand these, if there is an accident. , The building security officer will be responsible for directing everyone."

"Upper there is the office area. Of course, there must be enough gymnasiums for employees, but there are dozens of floors further up. This is more than enough."

"So, let's just count the two. From the 23rd floor to the 110th floor, how many companies and employees of different sizes are enough to fit?"

After a long introduction, Alice threw the last question to the founders of the two design software companies.

What can they say?

"I only have one question," Walker said. "Of course I don't doubt the design details of this super high-rise building. Miss Wang, when did you study architectural design? Is this your debut?"

"The first work is the computer research center I built in Exeter, England. It is a building with a metal frame and glass curtain wall that imitates the appearance of a bird's nest." Alice laughed: "But it is comparable to this one. The building height is over 580 meters, and the curtain wall area is 140,000 square meters... Please allow me to use the metric unit, the wall steel structure supporting system has a complex structure and is bounded by the eight-way truss layer of the main structure. It is divided into nine zones, and each zone's curtain wall system is relatively independent. In terms of nature, I have consulted with design consultant Byrne. This is the first time in the world that such a large area of ​​flexible curtain wall has been installed on a super high-rise."

"I have a little impression about this~www.readwn.com~ Warnock suddenly spoke. The two general managers are similar in age and have similar names. It is really easy to confuse people: "The Los Angeles Times has commented that it was The industry defines it as "the world's top curtain wall project", the authority responsible for inspection...what is it called, so to speak. "

"I don't care about those, but their evaluations do make sense. Architectural design is not just a matter of just drawing a picture on paper, especially when it comes to the physical properties of various materials." Instead, what should be concerned is that. Ignored, Alice just proudly introduced the specific details of the baby she designed.

"The entire glass curtain wall system not only needs to overcome the problems of large upper and lower spans and super-long construction of the steel ring beam supporting the glass curtain wall, but also comprehensive consideration of how to deal with various environmental factors such as typhoons, earthquakes, high and low temperatures, and the self-weight loading of the curtain wall glass section. , To effectively control the deformation of the curtain wall and the safety of the structure. These are a little bit inharmonious. If the Soviet Union fires a weather weapon at us, it will really be too much."

At this point, Alice couldn't help looking at the city center outside the window. Currently, the 310-meter-high Federal Bank Building is the tallest building in the United States west of Chicago. Thinking that a whole 632-meter-long "Alice" would stand next to this little guy, a girl with the same name couldn't help the smile on her lips. (To be continued.)