The four towers of the Cuatro Torres Business Area of Madrid
Palabras clave:
Structure, Madrid, Cuatro Torres Business Area, tall buildings, Torre Bankia, Torre PwC, Torre Cristal, Torre Espacio.Resumen
The Cuatro Torres Business Area complex is formed by four tall buildings in which each one them of them gives a di?erent answer to the same problem and the same situation. In this study we look forward to describe and discuss, through a comparative analysis, the di?erent structural solutions used to solve the problem of the construction of a tall building, as well as the conditions to which it responds in the decision-making process.
Despite that the general scheme of each tower it is completely di?erent, we can di?erentiate between the three towers placed on the north of the site -the Espacio Tower, the Cristal Tower and the PwC Tower- and the Bankia Tower, as the ?rst three of them were designed with a central communications core as the main element of the tower, versus the separated communications cores placed at the boundaries with which the Bankia tower was designed.
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