It’s seems like it’s a long time since we featured something from the world of architecture, and even longer since we ventured into the oil-drunk land of Dubai. In the past while, we’ve shied away from featuring finds from the land of sand so that we have a good spread of innovative and creative projects from around the world. The time has come to venture back to Dubai, where Fisher’s Dynamic Architecture firm is creating a self-sufficient, sun and wind powered tower. The building has been named the Rotating Tower as it’s floors will be capable of rotating around the central axis. It will be continually in motion, changing shape and giving residents the ability to choose a new view at the touch of a button. Hence the form of the building will be constantly changing as each floor rotates separately giving the building a new profile with each turn.
According to Fisher, the Rotating Tower ensures a very high resistance to earthquakes as each floor rotates independently. Each floor, made up of 12 individual units, complete with plumbing, electric connections, air conditioning and so forth. These modular units will be fitted on the concrete core of the building at the central tower. The 59-floor building will be powered entirely by sun and wind energy. And, the architect claims that the building will generate 10 times more energy than required to power it, thus making it a positive energy building. Solar panels will be fitted on the roof to harness sunlight, and a total of 48 wind turbines will be sandwiched between the rotating floors, placed so that they are practically invisible. Each wind turbine could produce up to 0.3 megawatt of electricity, and it is estimated that 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy would be generated every year.
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