Jeff, I understand you perfectly. And there's an extra chute available, because
I'll be outside...
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Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Dynamic Tower Skyscraper: Every Floor Self-Rotates,
Powered by Wind and Sun
Date : Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:55:42 -0500
From : jmp.space jmp.sp...@verizon.net
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Freaky is right. I'm aware of existing high rises in kuala lampur and
the additional structural issues
around wind, sway dampers, and such. And check out Dubai right now
below... freaky. re: this dynamic building
thing... I like the evolving construction approaches in general but
definitely draw the line at the whole rotation amp;
reconfig feature. What about the vibration of an entire moving floor.
So lets say it worked out to where we'd
be 'chillin up there at some point. Then a bump or thud happens. This
dude would be headed straight for my trusty
parachute. And yes, i'd bail on all-o-yous. Not really.. I'd point to
the parachute closet first. grins.
-jeff
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Tracey de Morsella wrote:
Italian architect David Fisher is building his first
skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most
ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor
of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice
command, and nearly the entire structure of the $700 million
building is pre-fabbed. I caught up with the architect in New York,
and he blew my mind again and again.
Fisher was inspired to design the Dynamic Tower during a visit to a
friend's top-floor Midtown Manhattan apartment. I had a view of the
Hudson River and East River at the same time, it was beautiful and I
wanted to make that feeling accessible to more people. He loves the
idea of seeing the sun rise and set in the same room, and considers
the building to be four-dimensional. Time is always changing the
shape of the building, he told me.
The rotation takes up to 3 hours (so you're not always spilling your
coffee), and gets power from photovoltaic solar cells and 79 wind
turbines, one located between each floor. The system is meant to
create enough energy to power to the entire tower and still have
juice to spare for some surrounding buildings. According to Fisher,
two of these $700 million futuristic scrapers are planned so far,
one each in Dubai and Moscow. They will be built using a truly
radical technique.
Construction on the Dynamic Tower will be unlike anything that
preceded it. The only part of the tower built on site will be the
skinny center core. It is strong enough to hold the floors in place,
and will contain the building's elevators, which transport people
and cars right to their door. Each floor will be made piece by piece
in a factory in Italy—a throwback to Fisher's previous life in
prefabricated bathroom design—and placed onto the core using a lift
system. With this method, each story is completed in about six days.
By comparison, traditional ground-up methods can take six weeks per
floor.
Groundbreaking for Dynamic Towers in Dubai and Moscow is expected to
happen in the fall, with construction reaching completion by the end
of 2010. If you're game—and very, very loaded—you can sign up now
for a villa or office space. The going rate is $3000/sq foot.
[Dynamic Architecture]
http://gizmodo.com/5019323/dynamic-tower-skyscraper-every-floor-self+rotates-powered-by-wind-and-sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
