Abstract

This article deals with the topic of designing an efficient internal transport system in a 1200 m tall multifunctional building called the “World’s Tower” due to its symbolism and specific architectural form. The building comprises four towers whose bases are 75 m/75 m long each and whose height is 1200 m. Two of the towers are located along the north-south axis while the two others along the east-west one. The towers are joined at the top which makes the building higher than ever before (even up to 2 km). It has been achieved with the help of a batten plate joining the towers at the height of 900 m. The opposite towers are joined with the arch structure thanks to which the building constitutes the monument – the symbol of the unity of south and north, east and west. Additionally, the fifth component – a spherical structure with a diameter of 220 m has been placed on the batten plate (fig. 4). There are outlines of the continents on the elevation of the spherical structure. Thus, the whole building symbolizes the mankind that has taken the planet Earth under its wings (fig. 2) The internal transport system in the building has been called by the author a “vertical subway” due to its similarity to the actual subway system. The system consists of 40 elevator cars connected with each other and which, in a given shaft, move only in one direction, for example, they all move up and then they move one by one into the other shaft in which they go down. It creates so far unknown possibilities of using the internal transport systems in very tall buildings, as the “vertical subway” of this type can take a few thousand people at the same time and it can operate every three minutes at peak times. Two sets of these “trains” plus eight traditional elevators can work in the tallest buildings in the world while taking up only a small fraction of their area. It is a new quality in the vertical internal transport because of its efficiency which is several times bigger than the one of the vertical transport systems used so far.

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