Building Details Floor Plan The tower floor plan is simple. Three Official Name Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower rectangular classroom areas rotate 120 Other Names The Giant Cocoon degrees around the inner core. From the 1st Location Tokyo, Japan floor to the 50th floor, these rectangular Building Function Education classroom areas are arranged in a curvilinear form. The inner core consists of Structural Materials Composite an elevator, staircase and shaft. The Student Core: Concrete Filled Steel Lounge is located between the classrooms Columns: Steel and face three directions, east, southwest Floor Spanning: Steel and northwest. Construction Start February 2005 Completion October 2008 National Ranking 33rd Tallest in Japan City Ranking 22nd Tallest in Tokyo Introduction Mode Gakuen is a vocational school for students in the fields of fashion and interior and graphic design, with bases in Tokyo, Roof facilities Osaka, Nagoya, and Paris. In 2004 Mode The priority given to the architectural Gakuen instituted an architectural profile means that, unlike most high-rise competition for its new Tokyo location, and buildings, it does not have a flat surface this was won by Tange Associates. Located in on top. However, an exterior cleaning Nishi-Shinjuku in the heart of Tokyo, this system and provision of a hovering space 203.65m-high, 50-storey skyscraper was for helicopters are essential for a high-rise commissioned in February 2005 and building in Japan, so to provide such a completed in October 2008. Mode Gakuen hovering space of 10m square, a Cocoon Tower contains 3 different schools: retractable roof was designed. Half of the Tokyo Mode Gakuen (fashion), HAL Tokyo floor is attached to the retractable roof. At (IT and digital contents) and Shuto Iko the request of Tokyo Fire Department the (medical treatments and care). roof can be opened within eight minutes Structural outline by a pair of hydraulic jacks to form the Both superstructures are of steel with hovering space. concrete-filled tubular columns in the inner core. The basement is a composite construction of steel and reinforced concrete with concrete shear walls, while the foundations combine a 3.8m thick raft slab and cast in situ concrete piles. The pile positions could not coincide with the column positions due to the complexity of the column arrangement, so the raft above the piles was used to transfer the vertical forces from the columns to the piles. Night view Lau Siew Chi A18BE0054 Internal View Dr. Syamsul Hendra bin Mahmud .