Authors

• فریبرز کریمی
• محمود گلابچی
• محمدرضا حافظی
• کتایون تقی زاده

Abstract

However there are many challenges for tall buildings, but today’s societies -each of them in their own ways- host the tall buildings in their urban and outside urban spaces.

This paper is based on parts of architecture PHD thesis research, reviews of 80 different articles related to tall buildings, and the judges of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat opinions about assessing these type of buildings. At first the infuencial and important approaches related to designing and constructing the tall buildings were introduced by selecting the case study method and content analysis. Then by selecting and introducing the research areas including tall buildings selected by the mentioned council between 1990 to 2013, the data were collected, assessed, analyzed, and ranked. Finally the relative influences of each approach on forming the tall building were identified. Twelve approaches were categorized into three section based on size and effect.

Keywords

• Tall building
• Approach
• unique design
• Innovation
• tall building morphology