Inside the Globe [HDR]

Location: King Fahad Road, Olaya, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

 

 

 

About:

- Architect: Norman Foster and Partners

- Contractor: Bin Laden Construction Company

- Client: King Faisal Foundation

- Consultants: Buro Happold, Brian Clarke, Sandy Brown Associates, WET design.

- Date: 1994-2000

- Building Type: Multipurpose, Office, Retail, Hotel & Restaurant, Commercial.

- Height: 267m 30 Floors above ground of 44 Floors Total

- Site area: 25,000.00㎡

- Building area: 12,980.00㎡

- Total floor area: 70,190.00㎡

- Architectural Style: Structural Expressionism (High-Tech Architecture). It’s an incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design, including the prominent display of the building's technical and functional components, and an orderly arrangement and use of pre-fabricated elements. Moreover, Glass walls and steel frames were also immensely popular.

- Structure Material: Reinforced concrete & Steel columns.

- Structure System: It's based on a square plan with four wishbone-shaped concrete bow-string arches columns at the corners which define the upward curve.

The braces collect forces from intermediate concrete floors and transfer them to corner columns, allowing more weak columns to be used. To control distorting deflections, the K-braces combined with tie-beams which were sequentially post-tensioned as construction proceeded upwards.

- Environmental Design:

The facade is protected from glare and solar heat gain (due to the solar reflection of sun) by deep aerofoil-shaped Aluminium blades fixed to it with projecting brackets.

At the top of the Tower, spaces between arch and beam structure have been designed to integrate ceiling, lighting and air diffuser system

There is thermal ice storage. i.e. Ice is created and stored at night in a rock chamber and used to cool interior spaces during the heat of the afternoon

 

The Shot:

Nikon D90

Nikkor Wide Lens 10-24mm

Manual Mood

f/6.1

1/30 sec.

iso 250

 

Software:

: : Photomatix: 3 exposure Shots in JPEG & Tonemapped generated HDR.

: : Lightroom:

- Removing the reds on the False ceiling

- Processed in Jpeg using a Preset made by me :)

: : Photoshop :

- Added 1 Layer of the Tonemapped Shot of opacity 75%

- Final Processing (Canvas and Signature).

 

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