HINDUSTAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ARB409 HIGHRISE BUILDINGS  3 Credits LTPC
30 0 3
GOAL To enable the students to have knowledge and expertise in design and
construction of highrise buildings.
Objectives Outcomes
 To introduce the concept of High rise  By the end of the course, student should
buildings be able to sufficiently design a high rise
 To impart knowledge on the planning building
and designing aspects of high rise  The student should be able to have
buildings sufficient knowledge to suggest
 To expose the students to various types appropriate structural systems for high
of structural systems that are employed rise buildings.
for high rise buildings.  The student should be able to design
 To impart knowledge about the special vertical transportation systems, Water
service requirements of high rise supply systems, Electrical and
buildings Communication systems and Fire
 To create awareness about the sigh rise protection systems.
buildings  To enable student to apply aspects of
sustainability in high rise building design

INTRODUCTION 5
Definition of High rise in different contexts – need – scope – advantages and disadvantages– History of
high rise structures –5 ages of high rise structures -Current tall buildings and their salient features

DESIGN OF HIGH RISE BUILDINGS 8

High rise building design approach – planning strategies–Building form – Plan shape efficiencies – Core
Planning – Types, Components – Planning strategy for shafts and ducts – Parking strategies

STRUCTURE 12
Aerodynamics – Structural systems – height vs footprint - Wind load issues – Seismic issues – Materials–
foundation

SERVICES 12
Vertical transportation –HVAC systems - Water supply transmission& distribution – waste disposal –
Firefighting regulations& Strategies - Service Floor – relevant regulations in Indian Context

SUSTAINABILITY 8
Building Automation – Green Elements – Passive and Active design – Works of Architects like Ken
Yeang, Norman Foster

TEXT BOOKS
1. Designing Tall Buildings: Structure as Architecture By Mark Sarkisian
2. Bryan Stafford and Alex Coull, Tall Building Structures, Analysis and Design John Wiley &
Sons, NewYork, 1991
3. Stein Reynolds Mc Guinness – Mechanical and Electrical equipment for buildings – vol 1 & 2 –
John Wiley& sons
4. Tall building design:steel,concrete,and composite systems.by Bungale s.Taranath.-CRC press.

REFERENCE:
1. 1. Krishna Raju .N, Pre Stressed Concrete, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd.,
New Delhi, 1988
2. 2. Taranath .B.S, Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings, McGraw Hill,
New York, 1988.
3. Bennetts Ian & others – Tall building structural systems.
4. Proceedings of the Council for Tall buildings – Vol 1 to 10 Books – 1997.
5. Handbook on buiding firecodes by G.B.Menon.
6. National building code (NBC)Part 4-directorate of fire service.annex c.

WEBSITES:
1. www.ctbuh.org
2. www.tallbuildings.org
3. www.tallbuildingfiresafety.com
4. www.nfpa.org