In Chicago building a 94-story building, skyscraper Vista Tower height of about 1,200 feet. It will be the third tallest in the city. But during the construction of the building experiencing the problem.
«Making tests in the wind tunnel, we found that the building was heavily swinging on the top because of the wind,» he told CBS Sean Linnan, a representative of Magellan Development Group. «The building doesn’t fall, but at the top it will be very to be felt».
The architects have managed to find a solution to «tame» the elements in the windy City.
The building will make the so-called «through-floor». «We raised part of the building, and the wind will pass right through it,» he added, Linnan.
This design will be the first in Chicago. There is a similar hole on the building 515 N. State, but there is only design and not a functional solution.
In General, the skyscrapers of this height as Vista Tower can waver back and forth six inches during the day.
To reduce this, some of the buildings on the roof of a building a special «shock absorbers» — or a concrete water tank, which helps to balance the skyscraper.
