A rotating skyscraper
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The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building features 80 pre-fabricated apartments that spin a full 360 degrees with 79 power-generating wind turbines
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— Photo: AP
Ever mobile: This artist’s image released by Dynamic Architecture shows a rotating skyscraper that is to be built in Dubai.
Call it the height of luxury as well as innovation. You can now live in an apartment that keeps changing its looks. Welcome to the “Dynamic Tower,” a slender, skyscraper of rotating, energy-self-sufficient luxury apartments.
The concept has been presented in project form in New York by Italian architect David Fisher. The building is coming up in Dubai.
The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building features 80 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,” Fisher told reporters.
Change of profile
As each floor rotates independently from the other, the Dynamic Tower will constantly change its profile, in a new architectural concept that is taking root around the world. The Mirax group plans to build a similar, 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow. “We look forward to build a third one in New York and maybe in other cities,” said Fisher. “These buildings will open our vision all around, to a new life,” he added.
Price range
The apartments, ranging from 124 to 1,200 square metres (1,335- 12,917 sq. ft.), will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, and at $ 30,000 per square metre, will cost from $ 3.7 million to $ 36 million.
Tthe pre-fabricated components made in a plant in Altamura, Italy, would allow the skyscraper to go up in record time — one floor per week instead of the usual one-per-six-weeks for similar high rises — and slash building costs by 10 per cent.
The skyscraper, which would be completely energy self-sufficient and cost an estimated $700 million to build, should be up and running in Dubai in 2010 - AFP.
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