POWER generating Architecture

This mind-expanding video is not a mere "Sci-Fi Video"

It reveals the new and innovative designs of Architect and Town Planner, David Fisher for the first digital high-rise time-shaped building for a future GREEN World. David is well-known for his restoration projects in New York and Italy. * See below note.

“Dubai Skyscraper With Rotating Floors” can be seen at http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/main.htm As with anything worthwhile it may be slow loading but well worth the wait.

The video features the revolutionary design for a new skyscraper powered by wind turbines, planned for completion in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates next year. It also includes an equally stunning design for an Italian dynamic building, complete with GREEN glasshouse living space.

As the video progresses the amazing versatility becomes more and more visible and as an artist I immediately responded to the visual beauty of the dynamically changing shape of the building .. Continually spiraling like a macro DNA structure and NEVER the same shape .. A revolutionary 4 dimensional tower in motion .. It’s “life designed by time.”

But the fact that these buildings are designed to be TOTALLY environmentally friendly, from their use of natural materials through to being totally self powering, appealed to me even more so.

"Propellers" are inserted between each floor enabling the entire building to not only produce enough energy to sustain itself, but also to supply energy for other buildings in its vicinity. In fact these dynamic buildings are projected to become Power Stations, producing power for entire cities.

The text below from Wikipedia lends "reality" to that which appears to be mere speculation or Science Fiction .. Environmentally friendly buildings, where every floor rotates, providing stunning visual pleasure to the external world as well as a dynamic GREEN lifestyle to all its occupants.

“The Da Vinci Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building) is a proposed 313 m (1,027 ft), 68-floor tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The tower is expected to be architecturally innovative for several reasons. Uniquely, each floor will be able to rotate independently. This will result in a constantly changing shape of the tower. Each floor will rotate a maximum of one full rotation in 90 minutes. The entire tower will be powered from turbines and solar panels, and five other buildings in the vicinity will also be provided with electricity. The turbines will be located between each of the rotating floors. They will generate 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy from the movement of the floors, and the solar panels will be located on the roof. Construction of the Da Vinci Tower is expected to be completed in 2009.

It will also be the world's first prefabricated skyscraper. 90% of the tower will be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site. This will allow the entire building to be built in only 18 months. The only part of the tower that will be built at the construction site will be the core. Part of this prefabrication will be the decrease in cost and number of workers. The total cost will be 23% less than a normal skyscraper of the same size, while only 90 people will work on the construction site. The majority of the workers will be in factories, where it will be much safer.”

How safe would it be to live on a floor rotating 68 stories above the ground? Dynamic Architecture, the company building these structures, says that because each unit is independent and flexibly moves with the wind their dynamic buildings will actually be safer in earthquakes than normal skyscrapers.

Consider "Life in a Rubrics Cube" .. View the sunrise over the ocean in the morning and the sunset over the city in the evening without leaving your living space. Welcome to the Era of Dynamic POWER generating Architecture

* Dr David Fisher, Architect and Town Planner, is an Italian citizen, who has redefined the technical and technological extremes of buildings, especially in urban centers like New York, Moscow, Hong Kong, Paris and Dubai, for over three decades now.

Fisher started as an artist in Florence, and after graduating with Honors from the University of Florence in 1976, he started teaching Architecture in the same university and at the School of Structural Engineering.

His professional activity was always focused on two things: Designing buildings that could adjust themselves to the needs of its inhabitants, thus being “dynamic” and the industrial production of construction units.

Fisher believes that “Whatever is correct is nice; whatever is nice is not always correct.” According to Fisher, time is the most powerful dimension of life. “Time” says Fisher “is the dimension of relativity.”