Okan Tower

Overview

A tulip is blooming in downtown Miami in the form of a 73-story, 893-foot-tall condominium-hotel, which will soon alter individuals' view of downtown Miami. Designed to resemble a tulip, the tower will consist of 31 residential levels, 13 floors for hotel use, five levels of office space, eight levels of parking, and amenities that include a rooftop pool and outdoor lounge area. The building is within walking distance from museums, art centers and transportation options.

We are providing structural design to Behar Font & Partners to support the building's height and expanded floor area, as well as minimize reinforcement congestion and wall thicknesses. 

Highlights

• The structural framing is composed of concrete cast-in-place columns, concrete shear walls for the lateral system, and post-tensioned concrete slabs.
• The width to depth ratio of the tower floors made the structure slender given the height of 893 feet. To address this, we strategically located outrigger walls with high strength steel plates throughout the building height to improve the overall building behavior.
• The design team introduced high strength steel plates (yield strength of 90 ksi) in highly stressed areas of the tower to minimize wall thicknesses, providing the client with more occupiable gross floor area.