EA Roundhouse technologies

Squaring the Circle

The Circle The building’s exterior wall surface area varies in size with the building form. It is one of the most expensive part of a building and the major cause for its energy loss.

The most efficient building form — that provides the largest indoor area (the buildings’ reason for being) with the smallest exterior wall — is the circle.

The Square provides more compact arrangements and easier manageability.

EA Roundhouses unearths the circle and integrates it with the orthogonal grid to create the best of both worlds.

By virtue of its design alone the roundhouse is far superior to any other building even before
the application of any green enhancing means like solar panels, superior insulation, water management, etc.

It is the essence of its design that creates the ultimate sustainability
and even more dramatically improved benefits.

Based on proven technologies of tall buildings, the three RH Technologies enable — for the first time ever — with unprecedented diversity & uniqueness, creating superior quality buildings vastly more efficiently.

Exquisite in its execution, RH Technologies take a “ground up” approach to create a wide variety of building forms and size in response to differing uses, climates, cultures and terrains: Wide variety of building forms from disaster-struck single family dwellings to the needs of more population dense regions in tall structures, (residential, commercial, educational, health, recreational, etc.).

And,

EA RH l offers the world community a means to rebuild disaster-stricken communities with permanent, superior buildings vastly more efficiently — within days. (See EA RH I below.)

RH technologies enable the more efficient creation of superior quality buildings.

• 30 - 50% less costly to build at all levels —
  From lowest-cost to most luxurious private residence;

• 30 - 60% quicker to market —
  Highest product quality, far greater durability, and much less expensive to operate

• Environmentally sustainable;

• Infinitely diversifiable;

• Better design quality providing unparalleled living experience;

• Natural daylighting and climate management;

• Enabling unique, ‘signature’ type buildings without the currently associated premiums;

• Richness of design for urban diversity, while maintaining economy of scale.

In the current economic climate of the construction industry, these are unthinkable.

Unprecedented diversity of building type and size

1. EA RH I — Low Rise

The critical and growing problem facing the world today — the need to provide shelters to its citizens — is brought to the forefront even more when natural and man-made catastrophes — earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, wars, fires,  etc. — render millions suddenly homeless.

EA RH l is particularly fitting for rebuilding disaster stricken area, better than anything that is available today. Mobilization is immediate, and completion, as permanent dwelling, can be achieved in days, not weeks or months, utilizing local labor, as work on building site is reduced to rapid, simple, manual assembly that does not leave ANY room for errors.

When put to the task, RHT will dramatically and fundamentally change the ways in which buildings are designed, constructed and utilized, enabling the more efficient creation of better quality, unique structures that are less costly to build, faster to market, and vastly more environmentally sustainable. More specifically:

• 30 - 50% less expensive to build at all levels — from low-cost to most luxurious;
• 30 - 50% quicker to build;
• Highest product quality, far greater durability, and much less expensive to operate;
• Earthquake, fire and hurricane safe;
• Environmentally sustainable;
• Infinitely diversifiable;
• Better design quality providing unparalleled living experience;
• Natural daylighting and climate management;
• Enabling unique, ‘signature’ type buildings without the currently associated  premiums;
• More responsive in creating better urban environments;
• Richness of design for urban diversity, while maintaining economy of scale.

In the current economic climate of the construction industry, these are unthinkable.

Validation

Two EA RH I home designs were fully developed (manually, without automation).  One was built.
Both cost 40% less than the prevailing cost of same standard homes, by same top contractors,
in same locations.

3. EA RH III — Hi Rise

EA RH III Enjoys the benefits of both worlds as well:

Current cutting-edge design and technology of tall buildings, combined with Squaring-of-the-circle design. (See above.)

More coming soon.

Validation

RH III towers were examined for cost of structure and curtain wall.

Both cost estimated at 1/3 less than industry standards.

EA ST — and closer...

2. EA STB — Super Tall Building

EA ST shares multiple qualities with EA STB and EA MTB, most notable is the tower's structure, and the building's interaction with its environment.

Validation

Since the structure of very tall buildings is the most critical economically in determining the applicability of such buildings, I had two of the most prominent structural engineering firms validate my breakthrough structural design:

ARUP — Global engineering service firm with over 14,000 employees.

CBM — ­One of the most prominent tall buildings structural engineering firms in the US.

3. EA MTB — Mega Tall Building

EA MTB shares multiple qualities with EA ST and EA STB, most notable is the tower's structure and the building's interaction with its environment.

EA MTB's conic form is the ultimate form for very tall buildings – architecturally, structurally and environmentally.

The tapered building form offers multiple floor sizes for accommodating multiple occupancies. It places most people on lower floors, reducing energy needed for vertical transportation.

The aerodynamic behavior, critical for very tall building, is such that the wind pressure on the building is lowest, resulting in substantial economies in the building's structure and curtain wall, and is expected to be comfortable from a human occupant standpoint with minimum use of dampers.

The towers external structure could be completed rapidly at first, providing an appropriate imagery (see pictures), while the internal content can be built at any time and desired sequence and at any location within the structure, enabling ultimate and rare development flexibility.

The entire structure comes straight down to the foundations without any removal of columns, and without transfer girders at the lower levels. with the exterior diagonal geometry, there is no uplift at the base, and the foundations are greatly simplified.

Validation

Since the structure of very tall buildings is the most critical economically in determining the applicability of such buildings, I had two of the most prominent engineering firms validate my breakthrough structural design:

ARUP — Global engineering service firm with over 14,000 employees and,

CBM's co-founder Dr. Joseph Colaco — ­one of the most prominent tall buildings structural engineers in the US.