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Earthquake Architecture

The document discusses strategies for earthquake-resistant architecture. It describes how earthquake architecture aims to buffer buildings from seismic events. It then covers various techniques used to dampen seismic energy, such as base isolators, braced steel frames, and dampers. The document also discusses reducing impacts from lateral loads through building form and securing non-structural elements. Overall, the document provides an overview of conceptual design features, historical structures, and modern techniques for developing earthquake-resistant architecture.

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Earthquake Architecture

The document discusses strategies for earthquake-resistant architecture. It describes how earthquake architecture aims to buffer buildings from seismic events. It then covers various techniques used to dampen seismic energy, such as base isolators, braced steel frames, and dampers. The document also discusses reducing impacts from lateral loads through building form and securing non-structural elements. Overall, the document provides an overview of conceptual design features, historical structures, and modern techniques for developing earthquake-resistant architecture.

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BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT

SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM

TOWARDS AN
EARTHQUAKE
ARCHITECTURE

Prepared by: Ar. Angela Gabrielle Loreno


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TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

EARTHQUAKE
ARCHITECTURE
Earthquake Architecture is the term used by designers, architects, and
engineers as a response to an earthquake action or resistance. It
responds to the need for a buffer in building design from seismic
events.

BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM


TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

Nunotani-Office-Building-1992 Taipei 101

BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM


TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

HTTPS://WWW.ARCHITECTMAGAZINE.COM/DESIGN/AN-EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT-BUILDING-MADE-WITH-CARBON-FABRIC_O

BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM


TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

THE TRANSAMERICA PYRAMID, TORRE REFORMA, MEXICO CITY SLICED POROSITY BLOCK, CAPITAL LAND
SAN FRANCISCO

BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM


TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

Te Papa Museum

Nunotani-Office-Building-1992

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TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

TECHNIQUES TO DAMPEN
SEISMIC ENERGY

MILD STEEL
CANTILEVER
DAMPERS (BRACED
STEEL FRAMES) BASE-ISOLATORS

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TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE ARCHITECTURE

OTHER WAYS TO REDUCE IMPACTS OF LATERAL LOADS


(WIND AND SEISMIC LOADS)
NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

Transamerica Pyramid

BUILDING FORM

WELLINGTON’S CENTRAL POLICE STATION


BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM
BUILDING SCIENCE: BUILT ENVIRONMENT
SAFETY & STRUCTURING ARCHITECTURAL FORM

EARTHQUAKE-
RESISTANT DESIGN
CONCEPTS
EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS

THE PAGODAS OF THE FAR


EAST OFTEN HAVE A
CENTRAL PILLAR /
SHINBASHIRA BUILT INTO
THE CENTER OF THE
STRUCTURE. THESE
PILLARS, LIKE THE SPINE
OF THE HUMAN BODY, CAN
BEND TO ABSORB THE
NATURAL FORCES ACTING
UPON BUILDING (STRONG
WIND & EARTHQUAKES).

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FEATURES


Simplicity, regularity, and symmetry both in plan
and elevation.

AN EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT OFFICE HAS BEEN


UNVEILED IN NOMI CITY OF ISHIKAWA PREFECTURE
IN JAPAN. THE BUILDING, RESEMBLING A GIANT
SPIDER WEB, IS THE WORLD’S FIRST SEISMIC
REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE MADE WITH CARBON
FIBER MATERIAL, AND WAS DESIGNED BY WORLD-
FAMOUS JAPANESE ARCHITECT KENGO KUMA.

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS

THE STRUCTURE AND THE BASE ARE JOINED BY LEAD


BEARINGS, ALLOWING THE BASE TO MOVE WITH THE
VIOLENT QUAKE TREMORS WHILE THE STRUCTURE
REMAINS STABLE.

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS
Configuration and Regularity

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS

TECHNIQUES TO DAMPEN
SEISMIC ENERGY

HYDRAULIC
DAMPERS

FRICTION DAMPERS
WALL DAMPERS

WALL DAMPERS

TUNED MASS
DAMPERS

HYSTERIC
FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS FRICTION DAMPERS
DAMPERS

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN CONCEPTS

OTHER WAYS TO REDUCE IMPACTS OF


LATERAL LOADS (WIND AND SEISMIC LOADS)
NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

Securing non-structural Mechanical components and systems Plumbing systems and


building components such as including air conditioning components including piping,
exterior cladding and
equipment, elevators, escalator fixtures, and equipment.
glazing, ceilings,
partitions

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EARTHQUAKE-
RESISTANT DESIGN
FOR ARCHITECTS
EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS

HTTPS://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/EVENT/JAPAN-EARTHQUAKE-AND-TSUNAMI-OF-2011 HTTPS://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/WORLD-ASIA-60770100

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS

THE TOWN WHICH MAINTAINED THE ISHINOMAKI RED CROSS HOSPITAL IS AN EPITOME OF A
SEISMICALLY ISOLATED STRUCTURE.

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS

FORMATIVE DESIGN
Formative design is a term used in the modernism school of architecture as a required performance-based design.
It is an essential factor in the creative process of architecture. Forms and structure are inseparable in terms
of modern architecture. Well-known architectural structures such as Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier,
display a massive reinforced concrete cantilever. A modern structure that was designed based on its structural
form.

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EARTHQUAKE- RESISTANT DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS

7 common Building Forms

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OTHER WAYS TO REDUCE IMPACTS OF
LATERAL LOADS (WIND AND SEISMIC LOADS)
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