2. Project Profile
 Construction Dates
 Began
 Finished
 Height
1998
2004
 Floors
 Main Tower
 Podium
 Basement
 Floor Area
101
6
5
508 m2
412,500 m2

3. Project Details
 Structural Types
 High-rise
 Tuned mass damper
 Pole
 Architectural Style
 Pagoda Style
 Materials
 Glass
 Steel

4. Heights
Heights
Value
Source/Comments
Spire
1667 ft
Roof
1470 ft
Architect Plans
Top Floor
1437 ft
Architect Plans
Floor 91
1282 ft
Architect Plans
Floor 89
1254 ft
Architect Plans
Floor 86
1213 ft
Architect Plans
Floor 12
207 ft
Floor 6
124 ft
Ground Level
0 ft
Sea Level
-4 ft
Floor b5
-103 ft

5. Analysis and Design
 Wind Design
 Seismic Design

6. Wind Design
 Skyscrapers must be flexible in strong winds yet
remain rigid enough to prevent large sideways
movement (lateral drift).
 Flexibility prevents structural damage while resistance
ensures comfort for the occupants and protection of
glass, curtain walls and other features.

7.  Thirty-six columns support Taipei 101, including eight
"mega-columns" packed with 10,000 psi (69 MPa)
concrete.
 Every eight floors, outrigger trusses connect the
columns in the building's core to those on the exterior.
 These features combine with the solidity of
its foundation to make Taipei 101 one of the most
stable buildings ever constructed.

8.  The foundation is reinforced by 380 piles driven 80 m
(262 ft) into the ground, extending as far as 30 m
(98 ft) into the bedrock.
 Each pile is 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter and can bear a load
of 1,000–1,320 tonnes (1,100–1,460.

9. Seismic Design
 Taipei 101 includes a 728-ton sphere locked in a net of
thick steel cables hung way up toward the top of the
building.
 This secret, Piranesian moment of inner geometry
effectively acts as a pendulum or counterweight – a
damper – for the motions of earthquakes.

10. As earthquake
waves pass up
through the
structure, the ball
remains all but
stationary; its
inertia helps to
counteract the
movements of the
building around
it, thus
“dampening” the
earthquake.

11. Conclusion
Taipei 101 is a structure that can withstand gale winds of
60 m/s (197 ft/s, 216 km/h or 134 mph) and the
strongest earthquakes likely to occur in a 2,500 year
cycle.