Burj Khalifa
The Burj Khalifa is located in the center of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and it is characterized by the beauty of design: wherever the visitor lands his consideration of it touching the spirit of creativity and sophistication, and the Burj Khalifa known as the Burj Dubai is the most famous edifice in the world; The tower is the tallest building built by a man.
The name of the tower and its purpose
The tower was known during construction as the Burj Dubai, but the surprise took place on the opening day, when Sheikh Mohammed removed the curtain from a sign that reads the Burj Khalifa, where the tower was renamed in honor of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates for his efforts in his work Development of the state, and bringing it to the highest levels. The tower was built to be a center of economic diversification with regard to oil, and to be a global destination and a widely used hub.
The number of floors of Burj Khalifa and its internal divisions
The number of Burj Khalifa floors is 200 floors, and these floors are divided inside as follows:
Housing units
In Burj Khalifa, 900 residential units are distinguished for their luxurious designs and facilities, located between floors 19-108, distributed between studios, apartments in one room, two rooms, three rooms, or four, and to ensure that the residents have complete comfort, the tower has several sections; Divide its own reception area on the floors (123,76,43), and the reception areas located on the floors (76,43) include private fitness facilities, swimming pools, a recreation and meeting room, as well as a library for residents, and a food market.
Corporate and office building suites
The upper floors of the tower occupy the corporate wings, occupying 37 floors of it, and the office building is a building attached to the corporate wings, an area of 337 thousand square feet, and consists of 12 floors, from which people can directly access the tower or the Dubai Mall.
Armani Hotel Dubai
The Armani Hotel Dubai was opened on the 18th of March 2010 AD, and its details were supervised by all international designer, Giorgio Armani, which includes 160 rooms and suites, and luxurious restaurants, and the goal of building the hotel was to attract the elite of visitors who want to stay in a luxurious and upscale atmosphere, As for the hotel apartments, they are located between the two floors (16,9), and they are 144 apartments consisting of one or two bedrooms, and they are distinguished by sophistication and simplicity at the same time, and with regard to the available services, including: room service, cleaning services, contact the building guard, and fitness club Swimming pool and library are available for residents of Al All hotel.
The top of the zodiac
The Burj Khalifa Summit offers visitors a trip consisting of 10 parts so that they can learn about the story of the development of the Emirate of Dubai, the stages of the development of the Burj Khalifa, and how the towers contributed to changing the features of the city, and the journey starts from the Dubai Mall, to be the last stop at the Burj Al-Burj boutique. Buy some souvenirs.
Recreational and commercial facilities
The tower includes a group of high-end leisure facilities, which includes 4 swimming pools, fitness facilities, and a health club, and there is a food store that allows visitors to shop from the many shops located in the reception areas in the floors (76,43), in addition to the presence of an Atmosphir restaurant On the 122nd floor, it offers the most famous and finest dishes, and there is also the club building which consists of 4 floors, and includes two indoor swimming pools, two outdoor basins, and there is a private club for women, and two fitness clubs.
Parking
The tower includes two parking spaces for 3000 cars, in order to facilitate the movement of the inhabitants of the tower and its visitors.
The Zodiac
The tower base is surrounded on all sides and on an area of 11 hectares, a garden with wonderful engineering designs. The green spaces in the tower are irrigated using a unique irrigation system so that the water produced from the cooling equipment of the tower is condensed and used for irrigation. This method is characterized by providing approximately 15 million Gallons per year.
Armani Pavilion
Armani Pavilion is a spacious balcony for events, and it is distinguished by its magnificent views of the Lake Tower, which houses the Dubai Fountains.
Burj Khalifa is a legend in numbers
- The total area of the tower is 4 million square meters, while its height is 828 meters.
- The number of floors of the tower is 200 floors, but the floor 160 is the highest inhabited floor on the population, and the four upper floors – located directly beneath the mast tower – are dedicated to broadcasting and communication equipment.
- The tower contains 49 floors of offices.
- The tower can be seen 95 km away.
- It is located on the 124th floor, and it is the highest observation area open to the public.
- The number of underground car parks is 3,000.
- The area of the gardens surrounding the tower is 19 hectares, and the length of the fountains adjacent to the tower, the fountains are 900 feet.
- The number of workers who were present during the construction process reached 12 thousand workers and engineers of various nationalities.
- The tower includes the highest mosque, the highest restaurant, the highest swimming pool, and the highest balcony, in addition to the highest luxury restaurant which is the Atmosphere restaurant located on the 122nd floor.
- The tower includes 57 electric elevators, with a speed of 600 m / min. Therefore, a person needs 55 seconds to reach a height of 500 m. The main elevator can carry a load of an estimated weight of 5500 kg.
Constellation construction
The construction work started in September of the year 2004 AD, and it ended in the first of October of 2009. As for the official opening of the tower, it was completed in January of the year 2010 AD, in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and its total cost amounted to $ 1.5 billion.
The design contract was awarded to the famous Skidmore Owings & Merrill company, a pioneer in the design of skyscrapers, and the responsible architect was Adrian Smith, and the owner company is one of the largest real estate companies in the world, which is Emaar Real Estate, and the project was executed by Hydra Consulting, which was reported by Adrian Smith is a design engineer that embellished the Burj Khalifa as embodied in Islamic architecture.
Building materials and engineering design
The tower used 330,000m2 of reinforced concrete, whose pumping height reached 605m, and concrete was used because of its advantages in bearing high temperatures, especially since the heat in the bay may reach 50 ° C, in addition to its ability to withstand the pressure resulting from the weight The building, which was poured during the night so that the weather was cooler than it was during the day, 31,400 metric tons of steel bars were used for the construction of the structure, and 142,000 m2 of reflective glass panels, aluminum, and steel plates that resist the rust, to build the clad Also to withstand high temperatures.
The base of the zodiac is designed in the form of a triangular structure, similar to the letter y (in English: Y), but with huge and giant scales in order to support the height of the zodiac, as if it were three branches emanating from one center, and the zodiac constrict in a spiral way as it rose in varying stages between the three sides until it ends To the top, the design of the tower in this way contributes to the magnificence of the view, and the design of the Burj Khalifa is inspired by the lily of the desert lily Hymnokales, six crowns, a flower that grows in the Arabian Gulf region.