Comments on: Rotating Wind Power Tower to begin construction in Dubai

By: carlo.odisho

carlo.odisho — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:38:38 +0000

hey guys does anyone know if the first level of the tower rotates too

By: betosolano

betosolano — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:49:51 +0000

What happens if its night time and there is no wind? how does the building power itself?

I dont think there is a battery big enough to power 80 stories with air conditioning, elevators, lights, waterpumps, and other stuff

By: boscostick

boscostick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:39 +0000

To answer some questions
“why cant we have architect’s like this in the United States?” Well we do- I’m one of them… and they don’t really. The architect is Italian, not Middle Eastern. And nearly every firm designing in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and the other cities there are american and european firms providing work for us american and european archtects. We do have foreign architects like Spanish born santiago calatrava designing the Chigago Spire which will be an incredible architectural marvel. There is also word of one of these rotating buildings set for design in New York City, so no worries about anyone getting singled out of the rotating building business.

As for elevators and staircases… It is centralized and does not move. The hallway circling the core does not move either. The entrance doors leading to the rooms move around an unobstructed circular hallway.

As for plumbing, sewage, and electrical, it moves around a ring pipe. Imagine plumbing and electrical working like branches on an artificial christmas tree. The “branches” or plumbing are connected to a ring that rotates about the center, so all connections can be solid ones.

As for the People fighting over controls of who sees what view… only the top 10 floors that cost in the tens of millions of dollars will be able to change their view and each one of those floors has only one occupant, so there are no fights!

As for the wind turbines, im not concerned about poo hitting them, but I am concerned how they will sound when they are spinning in a crazy wind both above and below your room. There will have to be a lot of sound insulation which increases the weight on the building.

This building would also need a large tuned mass damper on every floor. If, possibly one resident moves in and wants to put his gym set, boulder collection, and a couple ice sculptures against his window, that plate would sag to one side just like if everyone stood on one side of a small boat.

Other than that this will be impressive to see get constructed.

By: ali

ali — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:59:53 +0000

faboulus

By: Visual Culture » Dynamic Architecture

Visual Culture » Dynamic Architecture — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:08:29 +0000

[...] you have not already heard of “Dynamic Architecture”, it’s a new movement that is quite amazing; it moves, it rotates and its sustainable. The [...]

By: gbettanini

gbettanini — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:08:31 +0000

I’m deeply skeptical about the energy production of the building which is overstimated of around 50 times. But the design is quiet good and the technical problems for plumbing, electricity etc in my opinion are resoluble. For the plumbing i would make two tanks one for fresh water and one for stained water, i would put eight or sixteeen columns with fresh water/dark waters in the concrete core. The tanks will be provided with a computerized valve and a flexible pipe only a few meters long that will connect to the nearest water column when the movement of the floor ends. For electricity i’s only a problem of electromagnetic coupling and induction, two halves of a little transformer can be holded few millimeters apart, one half on the moving part of the house, the other half on the fixed part of the house. This system will have only a few more losses than a solid transformer. For electical supply you can use in a simpliest way brush contacts. For internet: wireless. No gas, only induction cooking devices.
Bye
GB

By: Haneen

Haneen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Leave it to Dubai to do something like this..excellent!

By: 100rani

100rani — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:18:41 +0000

I m SAQIB ULLAH KHAN 100RANI BANNU FROM PK (0092333-9748477).

I bcom very happy to read about this astonishing building…

very very very ………………………………………………………….. interesting…

By: ATLAS

ATLAS — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:23:14 +0000

Inhabitat and other journals have documented this fellow’s work before, and if people are interested they may learn more about the tower from Fisher’s website http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/ He’s job many of the World’s best minds working for him, and from my Masters research he was a former Graduate student of Architecture in Florence, Italy. Additionally his company or ‘club’ has Engineer Leslie E Robertson, former Designer of the World Trade Centre on board through LERA Associates. You may all log onto the website to view the names of the other leading compabies involved.

As for the plumbing aspects, he already has that solved with one of his companies former inventions addressing these general concerns. The real money is in the design for the wind turbine mechanism that drives the assorted floors rotation, and power generation. There are apparently plans to build a tower in each of the major cities around the world, with one planned for Chicago in the near future.

By: icebergs

icebergs — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:08:38 +0000

I blogged about this sort of idea a while back after seeing an advert which used a lot of these ideas: http://24hourtourguide.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/rubiks-city/

Great to see this sort of architecture becoming a physical reality. Until stuff like this is built nobody knows how great idea it really is. Nice you tube video too, clever the way the building time is also reduced!

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:30:48 +0000

This article talks a little more about the technical stuff such as how the architects plan to tackle issues of plumbing etc. and is a little more informative- they do admit that there are technical issues that have NOT been solved yet regarding construction. While not impossible, I think you need a developer with a huge leap of faith to back this project :)

By: DMK

DMK — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:19:23 +0000

This is not as complicated as you’re all making it, Psuedo and PaTrond. Buckminister Fuller designed and built a rotating house, the Dymaxion House. Hell, there’s even a rotating restaurant in Covington, Kentucky, not to mention many far more cosmopolitan cities. Plumbing and electrical connections are not a problem. Rotation is typically no more than once per hour.

As for the orientation issue, Schuper, there is only one tenant per floor, with is comprised of 12 prefabricated segments. These connect together to form rooms of one dwelling. Face the bedrooms toward the east for morning sunrise, then rotate your kitchen away from the sun to keep down the glare while you have breakfast, etc. Sounds wonderful to me.

I’d like to point out to mistawak that many of these designs come from European and American architects. The problem is not the architect, so much as the extreme cost of building these marvels. Only the money of Dubai can afford these!

As for sustainability, though, I’d bet my 1920’s abode consumes less energy over its life than is required to fabricate one of these dwellings. Still, it’s a terrific solution for a highrise!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:51:23 +0000

wow, how would they do the plumbing? im horribly worried that the cool turbines are going to get poo’ed on!

By: MN

MN — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:15 +0000

Looks very costly, disorienting and high potential for mechanical failure. If it can break down, it will, and never get repaired properly or even at all. I read an article the other day describing NYC and Paris as cities of the past, sentimental relics. Perhaps. But both are real cities culturally based. Dubai appears to be founded on pricipals of entertainment where its buildings are mere carousels. Im not interested in taking the ride. Are you?

By: PaTrond

PaTrond — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:59:13 +0000

Hehe =P You’re right.. How could that work?! Think it is slownly rotating then. A TV tower in Trondheim/Norway has a resturant with a rotating second floor(1 round pr. hour). Maybe that’s how it kinda works…

But the view will be unfair =P when looking to south is currently more boring right now since they haven’t really focused on building southwards.

Norway should have some of those towers.. We’re currently dependent of Hydro power(99.7%, produced in Norway to own use) but there haven’t been rain in several weeks now =/ So that building could catch upp for some of the losses.