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INTERNAL
INTERNAL

STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE

Trusses are used s a load transfer
assistance. Some trusses are
placed to strengthen weak spots
throughout the building
especially the high stress areas
of the building. It is linked up with
the external diagrid columns with
internal steel core via pin-joints.
Trusses span the bottom two
floors of the overhang, loads
above are transferred to these
trusses, which subsequently
Steel is for piles which is used to withstand transfer loads to the diagrid
the forces of the building transferred down system. Major trusses located at
to the foundation which steel resist high the building base, called the
tensile stress. Concrete is a versatile podium, to support the above
construction material: it is plastic and loads. Reinforced concrete slabs
malleable when newly mixed, yet strong and are used as floors’ slabs which do
durable when hardened. This is why this not support much weight due to
material is used throughout its internal as the trusses’ support and weight
well as the foundation of the building. distribution.

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