Posted on 09/15/2020 6:05:57 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Frank Lloyd Wright originally proposed The Mile-High Illinois in the 1950s. Innovations in construction materials and elevators are necessary to reach the one mile height and beyond. We may see the first mile-high skyscraper by the middle of the 21st century.
The undefeated champion of the skies right now is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,717 feet (roughly half a mile) and is the tallest building in the world.
Although take that with a grain of dusty salt—only 1,916 feet of the Burj Dubai is occupiable space, the rest is vanity height, meaning nearly 800 feet is non-occupiable space. That represents 29 percent of the building's
There are three major construction and stability aspects that must be dealt with if we're to reach a vertical mile. Those are:
Dampening wind sway
Elevator speed and length
Construction materials
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A Space Elevator would beat everything (a guy could dream)
Couple of things I thought of. 1. you need a super strong material that won’t crush or deform under its own weight. 2. You may need multiple stairwells to deal with the pressure difference from the ground to the top. 3. You would have to account for differences in expansion and contraction of the building because of temp differences.
“The elevators are the biggest problem. The longer the cables,the heavier they will be.“
With advances in electric motors and computer control there is no reason that cables cannot be eliminated and the lifting motor to be part of the elevator car itself.
Also there is no reason that the elevator cars to be placed in a shaft, why can they not travel up the sides of the building on special rails?
Sure. Just make the base solid steel embedded 500 feet into a solid granite bedrock base. Even then, I’d go up only once to take a picture and hope that wasn’t the time the inevitable happened.
Sure. Just make the base solid steel embedded 500 feet into a solid granite bedrock base. Even then, I’d go up only once to take a picture and hope that wasn’t the time the inevitable happened.
Supertall skyscrapers - though architecturally fascinating - are totally unnecessary in a digital work world. The old idea was that urban real estate was expensive, all the employees needed to be under the watchful eye of the boss, all of the banks, accounting offices, and other services a firm needed were also downtown, so as a company grew the most efficient way was up. The Internet and Mohammed Atta have brought all of those assumptions to an end.
Why isn’t there trees a mile high?
That was enough for me. A mile high building? Not for me. Let Mikey do it.
Plumbing would be a hassle. Getting water up there to flush toilets, etc.
Also there is no reason that the elevator cars to be placed in a shaft, why can they not travel up the sides of the building on special rails?
But there better be a good supply of barf-bags in there!
The Tower of Wuhan.
That’s true as well.
They do have those kinds of elevators now.
Parachutes.
No, me, either. After 9/11, the thought of being in a skyscraper frightens me.
It is a bit laughable for them to infer credibility through Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘reference’ to mile high skyscrapers. Wright put it forth in jest and in a quite sarcastic manner. Frank Lloyd Wright would be summarily offended by a mile high building, or even the thought that his name was legitimizing the quest for one.
Is it possible to do elevators as BIG linear motors?
Sure. If Chuck Norris stays in the basement to hold it up.
Is it possible to fill the office space in a mile-high skyscraper?
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