The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says. Video, images and links after the jump...
Nono! It doesn't waste anything! The "inventor" of the building David Fisher (who holds a patent, so no copying this great design, folks) claims that the rotating mechanisms will be powered by wind turbines located between floors.
The key word is "Wind" to generate electricity! So "NO" Wind, “NO” electricity? Right? Lot of facts in the article but not once did it mention about wind speed needed to generate electricity for this so called " dynamic architecture"
lb- the difference is that there was theory and great ideas behind Archigram's work. Plus, it looked a lot better. These people are just obsessed with the idea of "ooh! it spins!"
Can't wait for this one to get 50% into DD before the client goes "...eeehh it's too expensive" and the Value Engineers have their field day.
it would be ingenious if they built a whole bunch of these spinners in hong kong, so tenants there didn't have to stare into the same neighbor's tiny living room day after day after day...
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I want to know who's going to be doing structural engineering on this project. It sounds like a nightmare. Should be very interesting if it works.
...what a waste of time energy and money.
Nono! It doesn't waste anything! The "inventor" of the building David Fisher (who holds a patent, so no copying this great design, folks) claims that the rotating mechanisms will be powered by wind turbines located between floors.
Try not to barf while reading about it here.
I've officially decided not to breed children into the world.
The key word is "Wind" to generate electricity! So "NO" Wind, “NO” electricity? Right? Lot of facts in the article but not once did it mention about wind speed needed to generate electricity for this so called " dynamic architecture"
And here we thought the end of Dubai's useless excesses was the Palm Islands...
I wonder if you are allowed to deactivate the rotation feature on your own unit/floor. And if you do, does it piss off the neighbors above/below you?
<sarcasm> I think this is the future of architecture. In these shifting, turbulent times, static architecture is simply too old-fashioned.</sarcasm>
Next it will be walking buildings, a la Archigram c. 1965.
There certainly is no useless excesses here in the US.
lb- the difference is that there was theory and great ideas behind Archigram's work. Plus, it looked a lot better. These people are just obsessed with the idea of "ooh! it spins!"
Can't wait for this one to get 50% into DD before the client goes "...eeehh it's too expensive" and the Value Engineers have their field day.
Right, PodZilla - I love Archigram; they were doing serious social criticism via architecture. This turning building is only uncritical spectacle.
this one rotates too:
http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=project&id=441&Itemid=10
this guy seems like a hoax
it would be ingenious if they built a whole bunch of these spinners in hong kong, so tenants there didn't have to stare into the same neighbor's tiny living room day after day after day...
check out the insane video.. I think they stole the music from a Jurassic Park movie trailer.
http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/Longmovie/Longmovie.htm
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