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Dallas City Hall

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One of the buildings that I chose from Leoh Ming's architect works is the Dallas City

building located in Dallas, USA. I have chosen the building due to its unique structure and its

intention to serve as the administrative centre for Dallas' municipal administration. However,

the structure slopes at a 34-degree inclination, each of the building's seven above-grade levels

are 9.5-feet wider from the one below it. This sloping façade interacts only with buildings on

either side that face downtown and offers shelter from the elements and the Texas sun.

Although the foundation and basement levels are far more extensive than the visible

footprint of the building, they are hidden behind the sloping façade and extend well beyond

it. Two hundred thirty feet in width, the cantilevered roof spans 200 feet (61 meters), the

ground level is 126 feet in width, and the basement is 230 feet. Three cylindrical pillars that

seem to prop up the structure were constructed due to the Mayor's reaction to the apparent

upper of the building's form. In addition to providing cosmetic support, these pillars do not

carry the structure's weight. The design and construction of the structure and the Park Plaza

and the garage came to more than $70 million in total.

When designing City Hall, Pei employed cast-in-place concrete structures for the

interior and outside of the building and the building and park itself. Each story is

approximately nine feet larger than that below it, with the building tilting outward at a 34-

degree angle. The symbolic logic and functional logic are both present in the 560-foot-long

from. The building has utilized the following principles in the construction: attraction and

engagement, visibility, nature and sustainability, public transportation as well as integration.

Wu Ying's scholarly work focuses on the adaptability of construction materials in

exterior building design. To enhance the building's exterior, adaptation research in the usage

of construction materials must be prioritized. This Research examines building materials'

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flexibility in external design form to increase current building engineering look, project

value, and building field production efficiency. The article will help me understand more

about the Dallas City building (Ying, 2018).

The scholarly book by Perez and Perini covers nature-Based Approaches to Urban

and Residential Sustainability. Discusses the basic principles of natural components in the

building design and the tactics required to incorporate them into buildings and towns. The

three parts explore the quantifiable advantages, outcomes, concerns and challenges of

integrating nature into our constructed environment (Perez & Perini, 2018).

The scholarly article by (Puspitasari & Kwon, 2020) analyses the skyline and tall

buildings' visibility using a dependable approach. According to the Research, towering

building clusters may be studied by looking at all unimpeded views from adjacent streets and

their effect on the skyline using Jakarta as an example.

The article by (Abdelhameed & Saputra, 2020) describes how the architectural design

incorporates building services. Specifically, the study examines the relevance of building

service systems (BSS) and how they should be considered throughout the early architectural

design stages. These systems should be included in the building from the early design stages

to save money and avoid costly and time-consuming adjustments.

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References

Abdelhameed, W., & Saputra, W. (2020). Integration of building service systems in

architectural design. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 25, 109–

122. https://doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2020.007

Perez, G., & Perini, K. (2018). Nature-Based Strategies for Urban and Building

Sustainability. In Google Books. Butterworth-Heinemann. https://books.google.co.ke/

books?

id=_wIxDwAAQBAJ&dq=nature+and+sustainability+of+a+building&hl=en&sa=X&

ved=2ahUKEwjrhdKOmZ_2AhVPUxoKHeBJDsUQ6AF6BAgKEAI

Puspitasari, A. W., & Kwon, J. (2020). A reliable method for visibility analysis of tall

buildings and skyline: a case study of tall buildings cluster in Jakarta. Journal of

Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 1–12. https://doi.org/

10.1080/13467581.2020.1787839

Ying, W. (2018). Research on the Adaptability of Building Materials Application in Exterior

Exterior Design of Buildings. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental

Science, 189, 032009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/189/3/032009