This study aims at analyzing the floor planning characteristics of high-rise intelligent office buildings, which have nowadays become a popular concept, and also at deriving the planning factors during the floor planning process of such buildings. In ...
This study aims at analyzing the floor planning characteristics of high-rise intelligent office buildings, which have nowadays become a popular concept, and also at deriving the planning factors during the floor planning process of such buildings. In order to meet such goals, information on the floor planning for worldwide completed office buildings, higher than 20-story, was gathered and classified according to floor types for analysis of their characteristics. Results of the analysis show that most floor plans are either square, rectangular, circular or oval shaped, while there is also a vast number of twin tower type floor plans. Most cores are planned either by central core, dispersed core or partial core. There is a vast difference in core planning between Korea and foreign countries in that most of the cores in Korea are partial core, while most cores in foreign countries are either dispersed or central core. It can be said that Korean floor planning should be improved into dispersed core type since there is a high need for flexibility and adaptability for facilities in intelligent office buildings. Floor planning of high-rise intelligent office buildings should be achieved through appropriate review of such planning factors that are discussed in this study.