(Newswire.net — October 26, 2018) — Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates, is well known for being a very modern city. The city is always coming up with new projects and is home to many standout developments, such as its man-made island and the world’s tallest building.
Its newest introduction may soon be a skyscraper, and not just a standard skyscraper, but the world’s first rotating skyscraper.
The project of the Dynamic Tower of Dubai foresees an 80 story building, 1,273 feet high that is able to rotate 360 degrees in both directions. In a New York press conference in 2008, the tower’s architect, Dr. David Fisher of Dynamic Architecture, said, “My buildings are unique because they are the first that will be dynamic and change shape every moment, first to be built in a factory and the first to be completely self-powered.” Not only will it create more power than it uses, it would have build-in solar panels and produce enough energy via its wind turbines to sell the excess to the city of Dubai. The entire building would be made of prefabricated units, equipped with flooring, piping, and all finishes. Site risks and costs would be reduced with prefabrication, which Fisher would estimate a cost savings of at least 20%. Upon completion, residents of the Dynamic Tower would be able to spin their apartments just by speaking, due to integrated voice-activated technology. Residents on the top ten floors, to be whole-story apartments, could transport their cars to their floor by way of a special elevator build inside the central concrete core.
The building will be completely unique as Fisher explained, “For the first time, man will have a building in four dimensions. You can have breakfast facing the sunrise and dinner against the sunset without ever moving from the room.”
Fisher first thought of the plan for a rotating floor while looking out from the Olympic Tower in New York and seeing how the top floors offered views of both sides of the island. So he thought, “Why don’t we rotate the entire floor? That way, everybody can see both the East River and the Hudson River, as well as Saint Patrick’s Cathedral!” He says this is what inspired the idea of a building that could continuously change its shape. The Dynamic Tower is seamlessly set to open for Expo 2020, an event to celebrate human ingenuity with a theme of “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”.
The Dynamic Tower will definitely be something worth seeing. Never before has there been a building where occupants can adjust their living space to their life and mood as such. As Fisher said, “Buildings should adapt to our space, our functionalities and our needs that change continuously — and even to our sense of beauty, itself in continuous motion.”