engineering

Tour Alto

Tour Alto is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tour Alto rather than just read about it. In short: Tour Alto is an office skyscraper in the Courbevoie commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built between 2017 and 2020, the tower stands at 160 m (525 ft) tall with 38 floors and is the 21st tallest building in Paris.

Key takeaways

Tour Alto belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tour Alto to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tour Alto from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Tour Alto is an office skyscraper in the Courbevoie commune of the La Défense district in Paris. Built between 2017 and 2020, the tower stands at 160 m (525 ft) tall with 38 floors and is the 21st tallest building in Paris.

History The Alto Tower is a project financed by SCI White Tower. Development, design, and construction are being handled by Bouygues Construction, in partnership with Linkcity, the real estate development arm of the same group. The architectural design was conceived by IF Architectes and developed in association with SRA Architectes. The work began in September 2016 and was completed in the first half of 2020. The first steps were the demolition of the existing Saisons building, erected in 1993. and the construction of an underground parking lot, supporting the future forecourt of the Alto Tower. It measures 160 meters from street level and 150 meters from the La Défense plaza on its eastern façade alone, for a total of 38 floors above ground and 3 underground levels. Its rounded shape gradually widens towards the top with a 12 cm offset outwards. Thanks to this shape, the floor area increases from 700 m2 at the base of the tower to 1,500 m2 at the top. There are two terraces on floors 36 and 37 providing almost 340m² of outdoors space. From an urban planning perspective, this tower fits perfectly into the revitalization of the circular boulevard desired by the public establishment Paris La Défense. The main companies involved in the building's project were Developer: Paris La Défense Investor: SCI White Tower Developer: Linkcity Designer and builder (project management agent): Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France (Private Construction subsidiary) Architects: IF Architects & SRA Architects.

Gallery

See also List of tallest buildings in France List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region

References

External links

Tour Alto at SkyscraperPage Tour Alto at Structurae Tour Alto at SKYDB

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tour Alto

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tour Alto claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tour Alto before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tour Alto ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tour Alto

In research: Tour Alto appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tour Alto in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tour Alto is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020 establishments in France, 21st-century architecture in France, Buildings and structures completed in 2020, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tour Alto outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tour Alto in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Tour Alto means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Tour Alto out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tour Alto in simple terms?

Why does Tour Alto matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tour Alto?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tour Alto.