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Remya R.Kumar

Marina

City is a residential/commercial building complex occupying an entire city block on State street in Chicago, Illinois. It lies on the north bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago. The complex consists of two high rise corncobshaped 65-story towers at 587-foot (179 m) tall. It also includes a saddle-shaped auditorium building, and a mid-rise hotel building, all contained on a raised platform adjacent to the river.

: Bertrand Goldberg. It was designed in 1959 and completed in1964. Cost of construction is about $36 million. Height of the tower is 179m or 587ft. Total Floor count is 65 with 900 residential apartments. The complex was built as a city within a city, featuring numerous facilities including a theatre, gym, swimming pool, ice rink, bowling alley, several stores and restaurants and a marina.
Architect

The

two towers contain identical floor plans. The bottom 19 floors form an exposed spiral parking ramp. 20th floor of each tower contains a laundry room with panoramic views of the Loop, while floors 21 through 60 contain apartments (450 per tower). The buildings are accessed from separate lobbies that share a common ground-level plaza entrances.

The

building is organized in the form of a sunflower where the core is the center of the flower and each of the wedges emanating from the core are in shape of petals of a flower. The cylindrical shape of the core was used to have less wind pressure. The efficiency apartments occupy one of these petals. The one-bedroom apartments occupy a petal and a half; and the two-bedroom apartments occupy two and a half petals.

Plan of residential floor with detailed plans of rooms.

Apartments

are composed of these triangular

wedges. On each residential floor has circular hallway surrounding the elevator core, which is 32 feet (10 m) in diameter, with 16 pie-shaped wedges around the hallway. Bathrooms and kitchens are located nearer to the point of each wedge, towards the inside of the building. Living areas occupy the outermost areas of each wedge, terminating in a 175-square-foot (16.3 square meter) semi-circular balcony.

The

buildings will contain 60% one-bedroom apartments, 30% efficiency apartments and 10% two-bedroom apartments.

There

will be 32 floors of efficiency apartments and one-bedroom apartments. There will be eight floors of one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom apartments.

The

towers have been designed as a central core which contains the elevator shafts, the stairways, and out from which radiate all of the apartments. The central core is 35ft in diameter. The overall is approximately 105ft in diameter. The central core is a structural concrete cylinder. It resists the wind and it helps support the building. The shape of the core means that the buildings have 30% of the wind resistance.

The foundation of the complex, comprises of: 115 feet depth drilled deep into the ground to hit the solid bedrock. Piles driven into the deep holes and filled with concrete. Central core of reinforced concrete for each tower, is the main structural element of the building. With the rise of core floors kept on adding one above the other. Casts were set on each floor and filled with concrete. After nearly a month of setting, the concrete was strong enough to withstand 7,000 lbs per square inch.

Foundation

system of this building is of caisson type. Structure has concrete ceilings and floors and astoundingly sturdy plaster walls.

Mostly

the structure was built with concrete and was declared the tallest reinforced concrete structure of the world. The structure is a combination of space-frames, arched beams, and sprayed concrete, covered in lead sheathing. The architect chose reinforced concrete instead of steel as this was the only material in which he could create the petal shapes of the apartments. The office building was supported with loadbearing concrete mullions and flush glazing.

Inside

the core were elevators and stairways, surrounded by a circular corridor, then a ring of bathrooms and kitchens, followed by living quarters and balconies. The services comprises of :
Central

elevators Spiral parking ramps Individual heating and cooling units Laundry room

HEATING/ COOLING UNITS


The

apartments functions solely on electricity. The apartments are not provided with hot water, air conditioning, or heat from a central source. Each unit contains individual water heaters, heating and cooling units for which residents pay individually.

PARKING
The bottom 19 floors form an exposed spiral parking ramp operated by valet with 896 parking spaces per building.
Above fig. shows view of parking space

ELEVATORS
On

the residential floors of the complex, an elevator sits in the center of the hallway, and the apartments form a wedge or pie shape around the elevator. These elevators were electrically run.

LAUNDRY ROOMS
The

plumbing and ventilation infrastructure cannot support standard washers and dryers. Each tower has a 1,500-square-foot laundry room on the 20th floor with a panoramic view of the river and a combined almost four-dozen washers and dryers. Residents of Marina City are not required to use a specific elevator when traveling through the building with laundry.

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