Architect David Fisher has taken the charming notion of revolving floor penthouse restaurants and turned it into something much, much bigger: a skyscraper in which every floor revolves, resulting in the first building which constantly changes its architectural shape.
The first two such skyscrapers are planned for Dubai and Moscow. The Dubai building already has 1000 reservation requests.
The building isn't just compelling because it looks really cool, either: it is an environmentally revolutionary concept.
The Dynamic Tower, the world’s first building in motion, takes the concept of green buildings to the next level: the Dynamic Tower will generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby, making it the first skyscraper designed to be self-powered.
The building generates electricity from wind turbines mounted horizontally between each floor. For example, an 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant. While traditional vertical wind turbines have some environmental negative impact, including obstruction of views and the need for roads to build and maintain them, The Dynamic Tower’s wind turbines are practically invisible. The Dynamic Tower turbines are also extremely quiet due to their special shape and the carbon fiber material they are constructed from.
Another environmentally green element of the Dynamic Tower is the photovoltaic cells that will be placed on the roof of each rotating floor to produce solar energy. At any time of the day, approximately 20 percent of each roof will be exposed to the sun, so a building that has 80 floors will equal the roofing area of 10 similar sized buildings.
In addition, natural, recyclable materials including stone, marble, glass and wood will be used for the interior finishing. To further improve the energy efficiency of the Dynamic Tower, insulated glass and structural insulating panels will be employed.
Article courtesy : Michele Lerner
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Rooms with a changing view: Skyscraper that revolves
THE Dynamic Tower, a slender, shifting skyscraper of rotating, energy- self-sufficient luxury apartments, was presented in project- form in New York on Tuesday by Italian architect David Fisher (left), before it goes up in Dubai.
The innovative, 1,378- foot building features pre-fabricated apartments that spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 power- generating wind turbines located between each floor. This building will have endless different shapes (artist’s rendering, above). The apartments, ranging from 124 to 1,335- 12,917 square feet, will take between one and three hours to make a rotation, and will cost from Rs 14.8 crore to Rs 144 crore. The skyscraper, which will cost Rs 2,800 crore to build, should be up and running by 2010.
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