Dynamic Tower with individually rotating storeys in Dubai

NEW YORK: A skyscraper that changes shapes with each of its 80 storeys independently rotating on a central axis will adorn the Dubai skyline in a couple of years.
Italian architect David Fisher unveiled the design of the world’s first ‘Dynamic Tower’, as the slender highrise will be called, in New York on Tuesday.

The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building features 80 pre-fabricated apartments that will spin a full 360 degrees — at voice command — around a central column by means of 79 power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

According to Fisher, the skyscraper, which will be completely energy self-sufficient, should be up and running in Dubai in 2010 at an estimated cost of $700 million.
As each floor rotates independently from the other, the Dynamic Tower will constantly change shapes.

The Mirax group plans to build a similar 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow, New York and, maybe, other cities.

The apartments, ranging from 124 to 1,200 square metres (1,335-12,917 square feet), will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation and cost $3.7 million to $36 million each.

Fisher said the pre-fabricated components made in a plant in Altamura in southern Italy will allow the skyscraper to go up in record time — one floor per week instead of the usual one-per-six-weeks— and slash building costs by 10 per cent.