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5-over-1 or over-1s, also known as a one-plus-five or a podium building, [1] is a type of multi-family residential building commonly found in urban areas of North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The mid-rise buildings are normally constructed with four or five wood-frame stories above a concrete podium, usually for retail or resident amenity space.
A corrugated slab is designed when the concrete is poured into a corrugated steel tray, more commonly called decking. This steel tray improves strength of the slab, and prevents the slab from bending under its own weight. The corrugations run in one direction only. A ribbed slab gives considerably more strength in one direction. This is ...
His design, published in 1963, placed three twenty-storey slab blocks parallel north to south on top of a three-storey podium slab raised on stilts. Each tower had exposed concrete framing, being built in a new 'box-shell' system which mixed pre-cast concrete and on-site construction. They were 216.5 feet (66.0 m) tall. [4]
The wall and slab structural system form a three-dimensional lattice resisting horizontal forces. A high strength concrete mix from 21,000 kPa (3,000 psi) to 48,000 kPa (7,000 psi). was used. [1] The tower and corridors show prefabricated panels on the exterior. Reinforced concrete columns support the podium and the stories below.
Concrete can also be prestressed (reducing tensile stress) using internal steel cables (tendons), allowing for beams or slabs with a longer span than is practical with reinforced concrete alone. Inspection of existing concrete structures can be non-destructive if carried out with equipment such as a Schmidt hammer , which is sometimes used to ...
A concrete slab acts as a podium which in the three cases is the connection to the street. The function of the podium, in the FOCSA building and the Edificio del Seguro Médico, are of a different use (commercial vs residential), in the Lever House, the ground floor contains commercial tenants as the rest of the building. In the Lever House ...
A steel, free form podium for commercial use surrounds the base of the building. In October 2019 the tower was awarded first place for excellence in the mid-rise category by the American Concrete Institute. [2] The building hosts offices of Assicurazioni Generali, the third largest insurance group in the world by revenue. [3]
The Tower's external cladding of pre-cast concrete slabs with mosaic detailing had suffered badly from the Scottish weather, and in 2014 the university received permission for the recladding of the exterior, [4] a reworking of the podium including the creation of a proper entrance, and integrating the Tower with the surrounding environment of ...