If living in a 250-meter-high tower with rotating floors and a system to automatically produce electrical energy seems like something out of a science fiction book to you, all you need to do is go to Dubai in two years' time to realize how the real world, at times, can respond to the most incredible dictates of the imagination. A group of Florentine architects (to be precise, an American who's been living in the famous city of Italian art for thirty years and two others who were born and raised in the "Bel Paese") are working on a futuristic project whose construction will begin in the early months of 2007 in the distant Arab Emirates. This is a 59-floor high-rise equipped with a core of reinforced cement and a series of prefabricated units, each of which can rotate independently from the others, thus allowing the building to continually change its appearance. This true triumph in dynamic architecture - called the Rotating Tower - will constitute the first and, as of yet, the only example in the world of an entirely rotating construction.
"The concept of movement in architecture has always been a constant for me," explains David Fisher, its conceiver, together with Fabio Bettazzi and Marco Sala, in reference to the chameleon-like tower. "As a boy, I used to have dinner while staring out at the Mediterranean sunset, and I'd dream of having a caravan so I could admire the spectacle of the setting sun from every vantage point." And this is exactly what the Rotating Tower allows people to do: to enjoy all the amazing views that nature has to offer without even needing to move. In the tower of the future, the architect's creative genius is making possible what logic would suggest is impossible: Watching the sunrise and the sunset from the very same room. The inhabitants of this amazing tower will barely notice the movement, as the speed of rotation will be so low as to be practically imperceptible.
This would be enough to make Fisher's project extraordinarily interesting. But to make this work a true champion of the "futuristic arts", what he's trying to interpret - and what, to a certain extent, reflects the spirit of our times - is the idea of its self-sufficiency when it comes to energy. This concept has earned the unanimous acclaim of environmental associations. This made-in-Italy tower will be capable of harnessing the sunlight and the wind to produce the energy it needs and, what's even more incredible, it will be able to sell it. Installed in the empty spaces between one floor and the next will be a series of propellers capable of harnessing wind power, just like windmills, while the floors themselves will produce energy as they revolve. Positioned on the rooftop will be solar panels which, depending on the rotation of the tower, will be exposed to sunlight, at least for a part of the day. According to the designers of the high-rise, which will have a total price tag of $500 million, it should be capable of producing 191 million kilowatts of energy in a year, this worth over 7 million euro. In other words, this means that the energy savings should cover the cost of the work in a period of 56 years.
The Rotating Tower - whose conception also involved Leslie Robertson, the American architect who worked on the World Trade Center in New York, among other things - could only have been conceived for Dubai, a city which over the last few years has undergone a true urbanistic boom by becoming home to some of the most avant-garde constructions in contemporary architecture.
Dubai Rotating building
Dubai Rotating building
"The concept of movement in architecture has always been a constant for me," explains David Fisher, its conceiver, together with Fabio Bettazzi and Marco Sala, in reference to the chameleon-like tower. "As a boy, I used to have dinner while staring out at the Mediterranean sunset, and I'd dream of having a caravan so I could admire the spectacle of the setting sun from every vantage point." And this is exactly what the Rotating Tower allows people to do: to enjoy all the amazing views that nature has to offer without even needing to move. In the tower of the future, the architect's creative genius is making possible what logic would suggest is impossible: Watching the sunrise and the sunset from the very same room. The inhabitants of this amazing tower will barely notice the movement, as the speed of rotation will be so low as to be practically imperceptible.
Dubai Rotating building
Dubai Rotating building
Dubai Rotating building
This would be enough to make Fisher's project extraordinarily interesting. But to make this work a true champion of the "futuristic arts", what he's trying to interpret - and what, to a certain extent, reflects the spirit of our times - is the idea of its self-sufficiency when it comes to energy. This concept has earned the unanimous acclaim of environmental associations. This made-in-Italy tower will be capable of harnessing the sunlight and the wind to produce the energy it needs and, what's even more incredible, it will be able to sell it. Installed in the empty spaces between one floor and the next will be a series of propellers capable of harnessing wind power, just like windmills, while the floors themselves will produce energy as they revolve. Positioned on the rooftop will be solar panels which, depending on the rotation of the tower, will be exposed to sunlight, at least for a part of the day. According to the designers of the high-rise, which will have a total price tag of $500 million, it should be capable of producing 191 million kilowatts of energy in a year, this worth over 7 million euro. In other words, this means that the energy savings should cover the cost of the work in a period of 56 years.
Dubai Rotating building
Dubai Rotating building
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