Structural Analysıs Of The Bearıng Elements Affectıng The Facade Shapıng In Hıgh-Rıse Buıldıngs


Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey

Approval Date: 2016

Student: FİRDEVS KOZAN

Supervisor: ASENA SOYLUK

Abstract:

The advancement of technology from past to present has led to the erection of architecturally striking and iconic high-rise buildings. This study aims to show the effects of structural elements on the facade shaping in high-rise buildings in the historical process by examining the solutions offered against the "high-rise" problem. The main purpose of the study is, however, to discover how high-rise buildings tell what they intend to reflect on the facade by means of the structure, to evaluate the effective contribution of the bearing elements to the facade shaping and to make the reading of a theory over the facade shaping of the high-rise buildings. The conceptual framework that constitutes the starting point of the expression raised in this context is the thought structure ornamentalized, ornament structuralized, structure ornamented and ornament of constructed discussed under the heading of meanings obtained by the material mentioned in the 19th-century theorist and architect Robert Kerr's speech titled Architecturesque' on 18 January 1869 during his conference at the Royal Institute of British Architecture'. Robert Kerr puts the architecture on a mathematical pattern as building+architecturesque. According to Robert Kerr, architecturesque consists of 4 basic definitions where the use is determined by the indispensable elements of pattern of the architectural design. Within the scope of the thesis, this pattern requires examination of the superficial, formal and mass movements of the structure and ornament on the facade design of high-rise buildings and sets the boundaries of research. In order to verify the conceptual framework and exemplify the application of such a study, 10 high-rise building samples with an externally-read structure were examined and the facade-structural layout-ornament setup was evaluated. In the light of the readings and the examinations of the 10 selected sample buildings, 3 different facade systems forming the field of study were designed, and the method of study was designated as making the analysis of dynamic behaviors under horizontal loads of the bearing elements which lead to the existence of the facade. It was concluded that the dialectic of structure and ornament in the facade setup and the effects of dynamic behaviors on the facade shaping of high-rise buildings cannot be denied and as is stated in Kerr's theory, the meaningful architecture's structure should be expressed clearly.