The new hot construction story out of Dubai shows that size doesn’t matter after all. Never mind the Burj, plans are now afoot for the world’s first building that can’t stay still.
There are plenty of buildings with revolving floors, but all 80 floors of the Dynamic Tower, to be finished in 2010, will rotate independently at different speeds, resulting in an ever changing structure.
The man behind the world’s first ‘building in motion’, Italian architect Dr. David Fisher, claimed his invention will change architecture forever:
“From now on, buildings will have four dimensions, the fourth dimension is time,” he said in a press conference in New York on Tuesday. “Buildings in motion will shape the skyline of our cities.”
There are two other aspects of the Dynamic Tower that will intrigue construction professionals.
One is that Dr. Fisher claims the tower will be entirely prefabricated in workshops and assembled in components on site. He said each floor could be built in seven days, and that instead of the 2000 workers you’d normally find on site in a project of this size, there would be only 80 ‘technicians’.
The second surprising aspect is that in the space between each floor is a wind turbine, with long paddles rotating on a horizontal axis. These 79 turbines will generate enough electricity to power the building, Dr. Fisher claims.
The Dynamic Tower in Dubai will be 420m tall. Apartments will range in size from 124 sq m to villas of 1200 sq m, complete with a car parking space inside the apartment.
The position of each floor is controlled by the residents, which, depending on what view tenants would like to wake up to, could give rise to arguments on floors with multiple apartments.
"Of course some kind of agreements will be necessary among the different tenants of the same floor," a press officer told iCON.
The first 20 floors will be offices, floors 21 to 35 will be a luxury hotel, floor 36 through 70 will be residential apartments, and the top 10 floors will be luxury villas.
And Dubai is not the only city to get one, apparently. Dr. Fisher said the second Dynamic Tower planned for Moscow is now in the advanced design phase, with preassembling of the units to start soon and completion scheduled for 2010. The developer is the Mirax Group, headed by leading international developer Sergei Polonsky.
The Moscow tower, which will have 70 floors and be 400m tall, will be located in Moscow City area, the new prestigious part of the Russian capital.
“Our intention is to build the third Rotating Skyscraper in New York,” Dr. Fisher stated. “Additional Dynamic Towers will be built around the world, following an expression of interest from developers, governments, and public officials to construct a Dynamic Tower in Canada, Germany, Italy, Korea and Switzerland.”
Of Dr. Fisher, the Dynamic Tower press release said this: “Renowned Italian architect Dr. David Fisher is the creator of the Dynamic Tower, a building in motion. He has spent more than 30 years working to redefine the technical and technological extremes of buildings in cities like London, New York, Moscow, Hong Kong, Paris and Dubai.”
Tuesday also marked the opening of the reservations list for apartments in the Dubai tower.
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