The Kingdom Tower design team, led by AS+GG, includes Environmental Systems Design (ESD) and Thornton Tomasetti.ĮSD is the MEP and fire protection engineer and its subsidiary will provide consultancy services for audio/visual, acoustics, teledata and security. Investors in the company include Kingdom Holding Company, Besix Group, Abrar Holding Company, Saudi Binladin Group and businessman Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly. The Kingdom Tower and Kingdom City is being developed by Jeddah Economic Company (JEC). Financing for the extensive build project Elevators carrying people to the observatory deck will travel at approximately 10m/s in both directions. It will be served by 54 single-deck elevators and five double-deck systems. The tower will comprise Class A office spaces, condominiums, luxury apartments, a Four Seasons hotel and the highest observatory in the world at level 157. The 157th floor will be occupied by the penthouse. The Kingdom Tower is expected to have more than 200 floors. Facilities of the proposed world’s tallest skyscraper The condensate water from air conditioning systems will also be recycled. The tower will also deploy power-saving building systems and equipment organised in accordance with the occupancy. The glasses will be fully glazed to further reduce the heating effect. The façade sides will be oriented to avoid direct exposure to the sun. The skyscraper will also incorporate several energy-efficient features. These will be engineered to shade specific locations of the building terraces from the sun, as well as provide views of the city and the sea.
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The three sides of the building are designed with a series of notches at specific areas along the tower. The design will give an aerodynamic shape and reduce the desert wind loads on the skyscraper caused due to vortex shedding. The wings of the petal structures will taper along the height of the building. The triangular-shaped structure will rise as asymmetric and slender leaves from the ground. The building rises from a three-petal footprint and an inclined exterior. The design is to represent the formation of new life and growth.
The fronds will have a single base structure that separates as they rise upwards. It has an elegant, sensitive and aesthetic design inspired by the growth of folded fronds of a young desert plant. The design of the Kingdom Tower is based on the themes of growth, desert and technology. It will include pedestrian-friendly access to shopping malls, residential and business buildings, two hotels, outdoor spaces and other amenities. The Kingdom Tower will be built on a 50ha site and include a Waterfront District in its surroundings.
Overlooking the Obhur Creek and sea, the ten-year $20bn development will be designed by HOK and completed in three phases. The master plan includes the development of the city north of Jeddah in an area measuring 5.3 million square metres. The skyscraper will form the central part of a major urban development along the Red Sea called Kingdom City. It is expected to significantly enhance the importance of Jeddah as a gateway to the city of Mecca and will act as a cultural and religious symbol of the city. The tower is expected to diversify the Saudi Arabian economy away from its main business, crude oil. The participants included Foster + Partners, Pickard Chilton, Kohn Pedersen Fox, SOM and Pelli Clarke Pelli. The architects were chosen by the developers through a design competition launched in May 2009. The mixed-use tower is designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG).
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