Skycity - Building Layout

Building Layout

If built as planned and to schedule, Sky City would likely be the tallest building in the world, with 220 floors and a total height of 838 m (2,749 ft). The construction plan calls for it to be built from pre-fabricated units constructed on site in an unprecedentedly short period of 90 days. BSB's plan is to assemble 95% of the building in its factory before any excavation takes place at the build site. The fabrication process is due to take around six months, before the actual construction begins.

According to the plan, the building, across 220 stories, will have: a hotel accommodating 1000 guests, a hospital, 5 schools and offices. Of the total space available, nearly 83% will be for residential purposes, housing up to 17,000 people. 5% will be for the hotel housing 1000, while 3% each will be dedicated to schools, hospitals, offices and shops. There will be 10 fire escape routes, which will evacuate everybody in a given floor within 15 minutes; the building will be fire-resistant for up to three hours. It will also have 17 helipads.

For transportation there will be 104 high-speed elevators installed. Many have critiqued the safety of these potential elevators, because they take multiple minutes to get from bottom to top. The 5000 residential properties will be able to accommodate 17,400 residents. The proposed building will have total floor space of 1.2 million m2(13 million sq ft). The main building will have 1.05 million m2(11 million sq ft) of this area, with a basement of 130,000 m2 (1,400,000 sq ft) and a 3 to 7 floor-high annex of 35,000 m2 (380,000 sq ft). The total capacity of the building will be about 30,000.

The 4-layered glass used for the building's windows will keep the temperature of the building constant between 20 to 27 °C (68 to 81 °F). The air indoors will be specially filtered to be up to 20 times cleaner as the air outside. The lamps used in the building will be made of LEDs, saving energy. It has also been claimed by the builders that they are currently working with architects who worked on the Burj Khalifa.