Dubai’s Dynamic Tower

David Fisher proposed his ‘Dynamic Tower’ back in 2008. Architectural film, Dynamic Group, has announced that the innovative project will finally be built in Dubai by 2020. It will be the world’s first skyscraper consisting of separate rotating floors attached to a central column.

The 80-story building will give the residents of its luxury apartments the ability to control the rotation speed and direction of their home through voice activation. It will also generate its own energy through 79 wind turbines placed between each floor, as well as solar paneling that will coat both the roof of the building and the roof of each level. The surplus energy collected from the turbines and solar panels will produce enough electricity to power five other similarly sized buildings.

The tower will also be the world’s first prefabricated skyscraper, with Fisher saying that up to 90 percent of the tower, excluding the central column, could be built in a factory and then shipped to the construction site. Doing so would not only decrease both the costs of the project and the amount of workers needed, but would also allow for the tower to be built up to 30 percent quicker than a skyscraper of a similar size.

photos: Dynamic Group