User:Kim632/Urban Hive
The Urban Hive is a building located at 200-7 Nonhyun-dong, Gangnam-gu in Seoul, Korea. It is designed by In-Cheurl Kim in . The reason why it is called the Urban Hive is because of its unusual structure.
It has concrete skin on the outside of the building, and main structure of building inside of the skin. Therefore, the main frame of the building located outside of the building. There are no columns and frames inside of the building. Due to this special structure, the Urban Hive is able to have a unique outside look and bigger spaces inside of the building than other usual structures of building. In Korea, most of buildings were built with curtain wall structure. Traditionally, when people try to make high-buildings, they put steel framed on the ground and use concrete with constructive materials to build a skyscraper. However, In-cheurl Kim, the architect of the Urban Hive, tried to make other types of buildings not like others which are built as the conventional ways. With his effort of three-year-designing, a new concept of building a skyscraper has been yielded in the world.
With the new structural way of construction, the Urban Hive obtained the grand prize in the Seoul Architecture Award in 2009. It was 27th of the mater pieces which were awarded the same prize.
Summary
Designed by: In-Cheurl Kim, Archium
Address: 200-7 Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
Plottage: 1,000.90 m^2
Floor Area: 584.78 m^2
Total Floor Area: 10,166.89 m^2
Floor Space Index: 798.69%
Build Space: b4/17f
Structure: Reinforced Concrete(RC) + T-type Steel Composite beam(TSC)
Design Period: June 2004 ~ April 2007
Construction Period: February 2006 ~ September 2009
Client: Urban Hive Inc.
Honeycomb Structure
The height of the Urban Hive is about seventy meters. Using an outside concrete wall instead of curtain wall structure, it is relatively hard to make a building this high because of the weight of concrete. The Urban Hive used honeycomb structure frame for the outside wall. Honeycomb structure looks like hexagon shapes of a hive. The middle of each hexagon is left to be empty. With this emptied hall, the weight of concrete wall could have been reduced. Also, honeycomb structure is known as the strongest structure in the nature.
As you can see in the picture, around the hole in the middle, there are steel reinforcements weaved with great delicacy. This kind of structure is call diagrid. A hole is 1.5 meters in diameter, and there are 3371 holes total in the outside wall of the Urban Hive. With this great number of holes, the Urban Hive could reduce great amount of weight in concrete. This is why the Urban Hive could go up to seventy meters with concrete wall.
Environment-friendly Roof
The roof is a small garden. There are 60 centimeters of soil on the roof. Grass and trees are growing friendly.