DUBAI PROJECT UPDATE 11...ROTATING TOWER
THE FIRST DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD IS HERE...

AND THE FIRST TO BE IN DUBAI...



From Dynamic Architecture Web Site:

A BUILDING IN MOTION

Visionary architect Dr. David Fisher is the creator of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion. The Dynamic Tower heralds a new era of architecture: Buildings in motion will challenge traditional architecture, becoming the symbol of a new philosophy that will change the look of our cities and the concept of living.

The Dynamic Tower offers infinite design possibilities, as each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and ever evolving shape that introduces a fourth dimension to architecture, Time.

The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly, with the ability to generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby making it the first building designed to be self-powered, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor. An 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.

The Dynamic Tower is also the first skyscraper to be built entirely from prefabricated parts that are custom made in a workshop, resulting of fast construction and of substantial cost savings . this approach known as the Fisher Method, also requires far less workers on construction site while each floor of the building can be completed in only seven days, units can also be customized according to the owners needs and styles.

Dr. Fisher states, “Today's life is dynamic, so the space we are living in should be dynamic as well, adjustable to our needs that change continuously, to our concept of design and to our mood, buildings will follow the rhythms of nature, they will change direction and shape from spring to summer, from sunrise to sunset, and adjust themselves to the weather, buildings will be alive.

“From now on, buildings will have four dimensions, the fourth dimension is ‘Time' to become part of architecture,” Dr. Fisher added. “Buildings in motion will shape the sky line of our cities.

By combining motion, green energy and efficient construction, the Dynamic Tower will change architecture as we know it, and will start a new era of Dynamic Living.


It is already in the news: 7DAYS today 26/6/2008
The ‘Dynamic Tower’, a slender, shifting skyscraper of rotating, energy-self-sufficient luxury apartments, was presented in project-form late on Tuesday in New York by Italian architect David Fisher, before it goes up in Dubai.
The 420-metre 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 said. 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 said the skyscraper, which will be completely energy self-sufficient and will cost an estimated $700 million to build, should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.