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β€’ Footage courtesy: Dominic Nicolai (@dominicnicolai8094) β€” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffyIEZD57E
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00:00The kingdom center in Riyadh is engineered to withstand powerful desert winds and structural shear forces.
00:07Why engineer a massive inverted parabolic arch near the summit instead of maintaining a standard solid facade?
00:14Intuition suggests a massive opening lets wind pass harmlessly, but aerodynamics reveals it creates severe turbulence.
00:22The inverted parabolic opening allows high-altitude desert winds to pass harmlessly through, dramatically reducing structural wind loads.
00:31Engineered vortex shedding mitigates catastrophic torsional oscillation during peak meteorological velocity events.
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