Futuristic Rotating Tower Skyscraper in Dubai
Fancy living in future world today? Head down to Dubai in few years time. Dubai, the new booming emerging country already seeing ambitious real-estate construction activities which built Burj Al Arab, world’s tallest freestanding hotel in the world, and going to see world’s tallest building and the world’s tallest freestanding structure on land in Burj Dubai and Al Burj, are preparing itself to build more innovative skyscrapers which has futuristic and ahead-of-times building designs and architecture.
Dubbed ‘Rotating Tower in Motion’ building based on ‘Dynamic Architecture‘ concept by Florentine architect David Fisher is first of its kind and trend-setting. Not only be the pioneer, the Dynamic Architecture building which will constantly in motion changing its shape with each floor capable of spin, move and rotate 360 degress independent of one another, will also be able to generate electric energy enough for itself as well as for other surrounding buildings from at least 48 wind turbines that fitted between each rotating floors as well as the solar panels positioned on the roof of the building that will produce pollution-free energy from wind and the sunlight. Any acoustics issues are solved by modern design of the building and the carbon fiber special shape of the wings. And the floor only rotates at the slow speed of about 6 meters a minutes, so that guests inside probably won’t feel it.
The Rotating Tower is actually a tower with a central concrete core surrounded by 59 independently rotating levels. It will also be the first skyscraper built with industrial systems process, where 90% of the building materials will be produced and constructed as modules in an industrial factory set up in Jebel Ali. These pre-fabricated units will then be shipped to the construction site and then assembled on the central core, the only part that will be built on-site using traditional techniques to house important static amenities like elevators, staircases, plumbing and other utilities. Each floor of the tower will consist of 48 of these factory-made modules that will arrive at the job site completely finished and self-contained with electrical, plumbing as well as air-conditioning systems ready for use. The modules will then be mechanically assembled at the rate of one floor every three days.
When completed, the rotating tower skyscraper will have 68 floors and will be 313 meters (1,027 feet) high. There will be a 6-star hotel, offices and apartments of various sizes besides five villas on the top floor. Each of the villas will have designated parking on the same floor with vehicles brought up and down in special elevators. The roof of the “Penthouse” villa will also have a swimming pool, a garden and an Arabian majlis. The tower also have a retractable heliport, a platform that will extend from the shell of the building at the 64th floor at the moment of landing, thus maintaining the dynamic aesthetic architecture of the tower.
If you can’t visualize how the tower can have endless shapes by dynamically rotating floors to adapts to its surroundings but also to the tenant’s needs and the tenant’s caprices, the following video may help you.
The Dynamic Architecture concept-based buildings are going to be built all over the world in cities such as New York, Milan, Moscow and Tokyo, after the project expected to complete in 2009 in Dubai, if it ever takes off. Here is a different conceptual design of Dynamic Architecture based on UFO theme.
In fact, this is not going to be the only rotating skyscraper in Dubai. The Times Residences by Glenn Howells Architects is also a rotating tower with 200 condominium apartments that located in City of Arabia, and its rotation mechanism driven by solar energy. However, it’s not rotating individually by each floor, instead whole building rotate altogether to offer all residents equal view. Rotating speed is much slower at 1cm per min, making all 200 units able to view 360 degree of its surrounding once every 7days. This tower expected to finish in 2009.
Rotating Residences is a tower project of High Rise Properties with four rotating penthouses and a rotating villa with its own car lift and 3 car pack space on top. There are total of 72 residential units. Five of the tower’s 15 storeys will rotate through 360 degrees at speeds which can be selected by the resident once in either 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours.
Not futuristic and advanced enough? How about “Rotating City” urban concept, which will be built anytime soon on an island in Abu Dhabi. The Rotating City, also by High Rise RE, is a city project where every building rotates and faces different environments according to the owner’s wishes. At 10 million square feet, this city definitely has the closer look to Spaceport in Star Wars. The city will consists of 20 rotating building 300 revolving, floating and flying villas on the water, also able to rotate at wish. Inside the city there are also 5-star hotel tower with 300 rooms, 4-star hotel tower with 350 rooms and Attraction Park with an animation box, magic carpet, river adventure, conference room and wedding room.
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November 12th, 2009 13:51
Ok for the people that don’t understand how the elevators work
did it ever occure to you that the core of the buiding wont turn? so all the piping and elevators fire exits and so on will not roatate seems pretty logical to me
September 12th, 2009 12:40
This has a potential to be a scam of the first order. The mechanical infrastructure of rotating water and sewage alone is formidable, plus structural integrity without outer shell support will be impossible. Shifting weight with rotation another time bomb. Save your money.
July 6th, 2009 16:11
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April 15th, 2009 22:25
very bad ideas , Santiago Clatrava (Spanish Architect) was the first in creating rotating towers especially in Sweeden,tolsa , , no need to repeat the same ideas or we are copywriters
April 14th, 2009 01:10
i believe with sam, the building would not be spectacular because i know how the world works, 1st model is just experience for a better one tomorrow . it would suck .
March 20th, 2009 06:51
This idea is amazing. AMAZING! but elsewhere i learned about its other planned buildings and the beach and island projects already done. check out the city at Google Earth!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMAZING!!!!!!
February 28th, 2009 07:25
I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE…
DUBAI
February 18th, 2009 20:48
I love DUBAI !!!
DUBAI IS HEAVEN OF THE WORLD
February 15th, 2009 09:54
DUBAI IS JUST GREAT! THE ROTATING SKYCRAPER WILL BE THERE IN LESS TIME THAN WHAT WE EXPECT!
January 24th, 2009 17:35
when dubai plans something its definitely big and they have the money to do that
January 24th, 2009 16:52
I’ve seen a lot of designs,but a rotating skyscrapper is seriously out of the question,even for the possible near future.I definitely doubt that people would like,let alone feel safe,about having the building they’re in tremble and move with them inside of it.
January 15th, 2009 06:33
I might be doing a project on Dubai so this website is very helpful =P
Jabib
January 15th, 2009 04:03
Your ugly and dont have a life moryarti !
January 15th, 2009 04:02
you suck bob
December 8th, 2008 23:58
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November 25th, 2008 07:46
i can see adaptation of emerging technology in todays world are really hard to believe…any ways waiting to see the skyscrapper in 2010…
November 7th, 2008 07:32
First of all, this article sucked. If I had a nickle for every typo or grammatical error that was in it, I would be a very rich man.
Secondly, although the concept seems interesting, it would seem that all of the moving parts would get to be quite a headache. Just imagine doing maintenance on this building. And one has to wonder how you would get into your room. Seeing as it will be moving constantly, you would have to have some sort of rotating elevator, and those are difficult to come by… trust me.
Do not expect that the building (If ever built) will be as spectacular to watch as the 3-D model in the video. In fact, it would be quite boring. I don’t think people are going to want to sit for well over an hour to watch the building twist and turn like a half-retarded ballet dancer.
September 25th, 2008 14:45
PLS SEND THIS PHOTO TO ME
September 14th, 2008 11:49
[...] I’m intrigued by kinetic sculpture and architecture, and I don’t mean that kitschy rotating building in Dubi that’s super trashy. [...]
September 14th, 2008 04:51
[...] nature to compete, strive, innovate, do things that can’t be done. surreal, have you seen the Dubai Rotating Tower? Now this is pretty cool I had a really great set of images on this but can’t find them now. [...]
August 4th, 2008 06:47
This project is so fanciful that I don’t know where to begin my criticism.
Prefab – LOL
Rotating – LOL LOL
Electricity Generating – LOL LOL LOL
On floor parking – LOL LOL LOL LOL
Well, thanks for the belly laughs.
August 1st, 2008 21:40
Dubai adalah salah satu negara yang paling banyak menyerap tekhnologi arsitektur futuristik karena kekuatan dana yang tak terbatas.
Hidup Dubai !
July 27th, 2008 19:17
Dubai is a city in the UAE. Its not even the capital.
April 8th, 2008 04:59
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May 25th, 2007 16:19
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