"The view here is really amazing. No matter how long I stay on the Zhu Sen, I will never see such a refreshing sea view. It is as green as emerald. It looks so peaceful."
Zhu Youran was lying on the large balcony of the top floor, which was more than 100 meters high. Even though she had seen a lot, she was still very intoxicated.
The sea below is actually not very calm.
Although Lanfang is located at the equator, there are no days with strong winds above level 10. The highest instantaneous wind force in the whole year is probably level 8. Today's wind is about level 2 to level 3 breeze.
However, there is obviously an inverse relationship between the visual sense of whether the sea is calm and the height. The higher you look at the sea, the smaller and quieter it feels. That’s why so many guests who take a helicopter tour of the Great Barrier Reef feel so beautiful and peaceful.
At this moment, Zhu Youran is on the top floor of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, which is four or five times higher than the top cabin of the "Zhu Sen". The feeling is of course different. There is no noise of the helicopter. This feeling is really unknown to whoever lives there. Words cannot describe it.
Zhu Youran was basking in the sun and looking at the sea through the glass roof. The cool breeze from the air conditioner in the room was blowing gently. When she was about to feel dizzy, Gu Kun hugged her from behind and introduced proudly: "Is this enough?
I’ll show you a little trick and you’ll definitely be even more surprised.”
Zhu Youran smiled slightly: "What else? I've seen sharks kept on the top floor, can you come up with a surprise?"
Gu Kun was mysteriously proud: "Then you underestimate the 'world's most luxurious hotel'. If it's just this level, how can I have the nerve to charge 300,000 yuan a night? Come, let me show you a 'Rizhao incense burner with purple smoke.
Flying down three thousand feet', this was specially designed by me with Qin Ya in mind."
Of course, Qin Ya is just the chief structural engineer. The specific details of the new gadget that Gu Kun is about to show will definitely require the participation of a senior water supply and drainage engineer from Tongji Construction Institute, as well as the assistance of engineers from Dahai Institute. However, these details are not
You need to talk to a layman like Zhu Youran.
After Gu Kun said that, he led Zhu Youran to a nearby room, opened a bar control panel, and then guided Zhu Youran to control: "Press this touch screen button."
Zhu Youran looked at it and saw an LCD touch screen in front of him. It looked very advanced in 2001, and the touch sensitivity was very smooth and comfortable: "Why are there two buttons on the front and back? What's the difference?"
"You'll know after you try it. Who made you not come yesterday?" Gu Kun let it slip mysteriously.
"You asked me to stop showing up at the ceremony!" Zhu Youran punched her husband with a small fist, and then pressed the 'front' touch screen button.
Then she heard some gurgling water under her feet, and couldn't help but panic. She looked around carefully and noticed that the water levels on the walls of the fish tanks in the suite that housed sharks, jellyfish, and corals began to drop slightly.
But soon, the low sound of multi-stage vacuum pumps began to be heard under her feet - of course, with Zhu Youran's common sense in science and engineering, she obviously didn't know that that thing was a multi-stage vacuum pump, she only knew that it was a slight,
A noise like the sound of gurgling water.
As everyone knows, Gu Kun spent tens of millions of dollars to upgrade the entire pump system for this silent effect. This is the only seven-star hotel in the world. How can guests feel irritated by the noise while staying here?
Then, Zhu Youran saw water starting to be added to the top of the fish tank curtain wall to balance the water level in the curtain wall bathtub. Then, the sound of rushing water began to be heard from the direction of the outer wall.
Zhu Youran rushed to the balcony in surprise, looked down with fear, and was surprised to find that he actually stepped on an artificial waterfall under his feet.
"Is this replacing the water used to raise sharks? Fresh seawater from the sea? Man-made such a high waterfall?" Zhu Youran is also a college student after all. After sorting out his thoughts for a while, he understood the surprise.
It is truly an unprecedented and extravagant act.
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Gu Kun saw his wife's performance and was very satisfied.
This is a trick that he borrowed from many high-end luxury buildings in later generations and integrated it into the Burj Al Arab Hotel, in order to completely crush its Dibba counterpart that will open next year.
The later world record of "opening a waterfall on the glass curtain wall of a high-rise building" was taken by a high-rise luxury hotel in Oceania. The Burj Al Arab Hotel of Diba does not have this function, but it has to be admitted that this
This prop is also a very effective artifact to show off your wealth.
This thing is actually less difficult than a fountain of the same height. After all, a fountain has to spray so high in one breath, and artificial waterfalls can have multi-stage reservoirs, and the technical requirements for each stage of jet pumps can be reduced. Later generations can easily have one
The lake fountain at the entrance of the train station can spray 70 to 80 meters high, so a man-made waterfall over 150 meters is actually technically easy to achieve. But the operating cost is very high, it costs tens of thousands every day
Electricity bill pump water.
As for the design of the man-made fountain at the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel, the first-stage pump 60 meters below actually uses the internal space of the hollow main load-bearing steel column, and water enters from the opening under the seabed foundation. In this way, the first 60 meters
There are no openings at any height. After the sound insulation layer is laid inside the load-bearing columns, the guests on the lower half of the floor cannot hear the noise at all.
Arriving at a height of more than sixty meters, about the 14th floor, Gu Kun dedicated a floor and canceled all the guest rooms. The entire floor was used as an equipment floor and fire escape - many super high-rise buildings, every fifty
Meters or 100 meters, such a tool layer will be set up. Although the Burj Al Arab Hotel is less than 200 meters high and is not needed, Gu Kun still arrogantly wasted this layer of facilities.
What's more, the Chinese world thinks that the 14th floor is unlucky. Many hotels don't have the 14th floor. They just skip it when naming the floors. Gu Kun didn't bother to do the fancy thing of skipping 13 and 14, so he simply named the 14th floor.
It has become a tool layer that cannot accommodate people.
On this tool floor, a part of the space was taken out to set up a large reservoir. In addition to storing water, the reservoir can also stabilize the structure against wind, further increasing the damping and reducing the shaking of the upper floors. Even if it is less than two
A building that is 100 meters long actually has nothing to show off, and Gu Kun does not hesitate to strive for excellence.
Under such an increased wind sway damping design, even the royal suite on the top floor will never sway more than 5 centimeters when encountering the strongest level 8 wind in the history of the Lanfang area, which is almost equivalent to no sway at all.
You must know that buildings such as the World Trade Center, which are 2.5 to three times as tall as the Burj Al Arab, can sway more than 1 meter in wind force. Calculated according to equal proportions, the Burj Al Arab Hotel will sway 30 centimeters in a level 10 wind and 20 centimeters in a level 8 wind.
Even if he passed the exam, the actual target achieved by Gu Kun is now four times better than the passing line. If this is not called excellence, there is no such thing as excellence in the world.
In addition, the water reservoirs located on the 14th floor or even above can also play a fire isolation role in emergencies, releasing water in time to block the source of fire, ensuring the safety of this seven-star hotel. The selling point is also unique.
Yes - in a few months, when the world situation changes and Western customers pay more attention to the fire safety of high-rise buildings, Gu Kun can still get more points.
On the floors above the 14th floor of the reservoir, because the hollow main load-bearing steel columns need to be drilled here, there are sections further up. Specifically, how to pump the water "as noise-free as possible, or just use something like
There is no need to elaborate on the technical details of transmitting the soothing sound like the patter of rain to the top floor.
However, one thing must be mentioned, that is, this design also played a certain supporting role in Gu Kun deceiving potential rival investors such as Mr. Mahathir. After Gu Kun announced the fountain, as long as outsiders were allowed to visit it,
"How is silent water delivery achieved?" When fellow designers review it, they will know that "a building using this load-bearing column structure can only be as high as possible."
Furthermore, war games can be used to deduce "if the Orchid Tower draws on the idea of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, then how high can the Orchid Tower be?"
If Gu Kun throws smoke bombs again and expresses his interest in copying the decoration and landscape design of the Burj Al Arab Hotel on Lanfang Tower in the future, and refreshing his own world record of "the world's highest man-made waterfall", then he will be even more able to deceive Mahathir to death.
Damn it, I absolutely believe that the structural design of Lanfang Tower is the "Plan B" copied from the design ideas of Burj Al Arab.
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There are a lot of twists and turns in the principle, but in fact the wonders revealed on the surface are so simple, with only a majestic waterfall.
While Zhu Youran was playing with the waterfall on the top floor, the residents attending the ceremony on the lower floors were in shock.
The first time Zhu Youran pressed the forward button of the waterfall, the water from the shark pool on the top floor flowed down along the front glass curtain wall of the Burj Al Arab Hotel.
As we all know, the front and back curtain walls of the Burj Al Arab Hotel are bulging, just like the shell shape of the Sydney Opera House. It is like a sail that is filled with wind on the tensioned side, and the back is the wind-receiving side, which will be slightly curved and sunken inward.
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Therefore, when the waterfall is poured through the outlet of the front curtain wall, the height of the waterfall is not very high. After the water rushes down for more than ten meters, it slowly flows down against the bulging glass curtain wall, and as the sailing curtain wall moves towards the lower floor area
The larger the waterfall, the more dispersed the water flow is, and in the end it is almost just a thin wall-washing water curtain.
However, when all the guests saw this scene, they did not feel that it was not grand enough, but felt that it was very elegant.
Especially the Chinese and Japanese guests who like elegance and elegance all admired and admired:
"This artistic conception is like rain and bells. Life is long and the water is long. It is too quiet."
"This wall washer does a good job. The curtain wall glass is so clean every day, as if it had just been wiped by the Spider Man. And once the waterfall is turned on, it feels cool even without turning on the central air conditioner. It is so hot in Lanfang... this should be
A waterfall made of cold water drawn from the bottom of the sea.”
These guests indeed guessed correctly. The seawater used for this waterfall is not taken directly from the sea. Instead, it is excavated from the nearby seabed and a seepage pipe pool is buried under the coral sand to store water. The seawater used for the waterfall is
Pumped from this underwater underground pool.
After the water is pumped away, a cavity will be formed in the pool, and the seawater above will filter through the coral sand and seep into the pool, and then be pumped up. Therefore, except for some unavoidable salt, there are no other solid impurities in the water.
The water temperature can also be cooler, and it can directly cool the hotel curtain wall with water, which is very high-end. Although water pumping consumes tens of thousands of yuan in electricity bills every day, it saves a considerable amount of electricity bills for central air conditioning.
Of course, some professional customers will question the durability of this design: "Seawater contains salt, and the curtain wall is poured with seawater every day. The glass will not corrode, but the aluminum alloy window frame will probably rot away soon. The safety is worrying."
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However, this question was quickly answered by professional guests who knew the inside story better: "This is just for a layman! Who told you that this hotel uses aluminum alloy glass curtain wall window frames? Any exterior wall that may be exposed to sea water
The frame is made of titanium alloy!
Moreover, the glass curtain wall is originally hung on each floor and is not load-bearing. How can a super wealthy man like Gu Kun solve safety issues?"
When I heard that all the window frames were made of titanium alloy specifically for the cooling function of the water curtain, countless guests were secretly stunned. They had to admit that it was really luxurious and worthy of seven stars.
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After Zhu Youran admired the waterfall for more than half an hour, the guests below also enjoyed it for that long. Perhaps Zhu Youran was tired of playing, so she returned to the room to operate the control panel and pressed the "Back Waterfall" button on the touch screen.
button.
After a while, the water outlet of the pool and the outlet pipe valve were adjusted. The water supply in the front section remained unchanged, while the drainage became the back wall of Burj Al Arab and poured downwards.
The back wall of the sailboat is concave, imitating the way the sail is dented by the wind, so when you look down from the top floor, you can see nothing under your feet, which is enough to make you afraid of heights. And the waterfall drains from this side, so there is nothing
It was blocked by the floor structure below, but actually flowed down three thousand feet.
Well, to be honest, it was actually just over five hundred feet, not as exaggerated as three thousand.
A breeze blew by, and the waterfall, which had only a few cubic meters of runoff per second, was quickly blown away at a height of more than 150 meters. It transformed from a thin and long water curtain into a fairyland like clouds and mist.
feel.
The guests on the lower floor didn't react at first, but then they rushed to the other side of the hotel to watch the spectacle. Those whose guest rooms were not on the north-facing sunken side ran downstairs to the north-facing public gym and restaurant.
Go watch.
"The appearance of the sail is a bit meaningful. You can see the clouds and mist drifting back. It really looks like this sailing hotel is cutting through the waves on the sea."
"It's a hotel that won't move, but it actually looks like a yacht. It's really amazing. One day, I must stay in that 300,000-per-night royal suite and control the waterfall with my own hands. That would be like heaven and earth.
I am the only one who is supreme, and I am at the mercy of my miraculous craftsmanship, as a true man should be."
"Master Gu's artistic conception cannot be achieved by anyone without a big heart."
Almost all of the distinguished guests were stunned. They had to admit that although they were all rich and knew how to enjoy themselves, they had never seen such a luxurious scene in their half-lived lives.
In the first 100 meters or so of the waterfall, you can still see the formed waterfall more or less, but by the last fifty or sixty meters from the sea, there is basically no trace of it, but clusters of clouds, which follow the wind.
The direction is fluttering.
It is impossible to see such low clouds and mist floating in a normal landscape, but here you can. The clouds are lower than the sails, giving the stationary sails an incomparable sense of movement. Sometimes you can see rainbows flashing in between, and the glass curtain wall.
The reflections complement each other, magnificent and mysterious.
"I hope that in the remaining four months of this year, this suite will not be vacant even a day to ensure 100% occupancy rate. What do you think, after looking at this view, do you think my expectations can be realized?" Accompanying his wife
After playing for a while, Gu Kunhao showed off to Zhu Youran.