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1. Concept of Dynamic Architecture. 8. Twisted & Dancing Buildings.


2. History of Rotating Buildings. 9. Dynamic Revolution (2008).
3. Early Rotating Building. 10. The Fourth Dimension.
4. Rotating Restaurants. 11. Aspects of Dynamic Buildings.
5. Designing a building on a turntable. 12. Dynamic Towers Advantages.
6. First Residential Rotating Tower. 13. Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers.
7. Partially Rotating House. 14. Sustainable Dynamic Tower.
8. Dynamic/ Kinetic Faade. 15. The Rotating tower of Dubai.
9. Dynamic Interior Design. 16. Gaza own perspective on
10. Dynamic Furniture. Dynamic Architecture.

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Meaning / Concept

Dynamic (of a process or system) characterized by constant change,


activity, progress, or movement.

Dynamic Architecture / Dynamic Buildings , the start of a new conception


in Architecture , a concept of buildings in motion which can be found in
many shapes such as:

1. Static-Dynamic (Form, Textures, Colors).


2. Partially-Dynamic (specific spaces, elevations, Interior partitions, Furniture).
3. Fully-Dynamic (the whole Building can rotate, revolve, swivel or pivot).

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Meaning / Concept

These buildings provides the possibility to orient the own space:


- according to the moments of the day (sun & light).
- in relation to the seasons.
- in relation to the surrounding environment (views).
- For the purposes of protection and defense
- or simply to own pleasure.

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Revolving Building
Early Idea, 1906

In 1906 American newspaper columnist George Ade described planning


a transatlantic voyage and reserving a stateroom that he assumed would
be filled with sunlight and warm breezes throughout the crossing. At the
outset of the journey, however, he was disappointed to realize that the
ship had to turn around as it left the dock, and that his cabin would
actually face north with nothing coming in at the porthole except a
current of cold air direct from Labrador. The experience gave him an
idea:

The unexpected manner in which the boat turned around has suggested
to me a scheme for a revolving apartment house. The building will be set
on giant casters and will revolve slowly, so that every apartment will have
a southern exposure at certain hours of the day, to say nothing of the
advantage of getting a new view every few minutes.

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Revolving Building
Early Idea, 1906

Ade was not the first to come up with the idea of a rotating building, but
his description and his plans to capitalize upon it neatly typify the
development of rotating architecture throughout the twentieth century.
With ever-changing vantage points revolving buildings offered a new way
of looking at the world. They rewrote spatial relationships within buildings
and reconfigured views of the world outside. With gears, motors, and ball
bearings they made nature serve the occupant, for climate or lighting
control, entertainment or spectacle. Amateur inventors, entrepreneurs,
and eccentrics took up the challenge of designing a viable, affordable
version for their own use or to package and sell to the public.

Like George Ades many of these designs were never built, but remained
elusive visions of a revolving future.

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History of Rotating Buildings

The dynamic/rotating buildings enjoyed a surprisingly long lifeand a


recent rebirth across cities in Asia and the Middle East. So where, and
when, did it all begin ?

1st Century | 64 -70 AD 9th Century 12th Century 13th Century | 1295 the 18th Century | 1736
Neros Rotating Dining Renaissance design of rotary Revolving Summer park of hesdin with a revolving summer house
Hall, at the Golden machine tooling enabled more Houses have been dining house on wheels and mount at kensington
House. accurate rifled gun barrels, and a common feature that could be rolled out Gardens by Bernard Lens
machine guns exponentially of the gardens and to the park and turned the young.
multiplied firing rates. parks enjoyed by to face the sun.
European nobility.

19th Century | 1800 19th Century | 1841 19th Century | 1883 19th Century | 1895 19th Century | 1900
Curios theater. Theodor Timby s model Rotating house on a Jesse Lakes revolving Revolving tower at
for his rotating rooftop in Paris, as tower providing a southend on sea,
tower/turret for US envisioned by Albert constantly changing England.
navy monitor. Robida in hisbook the view of Atlantic citys
twentieth Century. Boardwalk .

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a 1st Century
64 70 AD

The room which has just


been discovered was
always turning around
itself just like earth does
and was powered by a
constant flow of water
Neros Rotating dining hall at Domus Aurea from the sea and two
(Golden House), a luxurious palace small lakes (Albula
surrounded by an immense portico. waters).

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Early Rotating Buildings

Renaissance design, like technical innovation in


general, was often driven by military necessity.
Throughout history fighting forces have sought
advantage with stronger swords, thicker walls, and
quieter submarines.

Advances in metal and casting technology created


powerful artillery that rendered obsolete existing
fortifications, rotary machine tooling enabled more
accurate gun barrels, and machine guns
exponentially multiplied firing rates.

Great strides in the mechanization of war were made


during the nineteenth century. At least two designs
were proposed, but ultimately never built.

Renaissance rotary machine tool for wars

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Revolving Summer House and mount at kensington Gardens by Bernard Lens the Younger , 1736

Like a small-scale Parthenon on the Acropolis, the summer house sat atop a mount overlooking the palace garden with its
features. It offered opportunities to experience and meditate on landscape that was handcrafted to appear naturalistic.
In fact, the mount itself was man-made from earth excavated to create a pond elsewhere on the grounds.
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Early Rotating Buildings

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Early Rotating Buildings

In 1841, Theodore Timby, a nineteen-year-old from Syracuse,


New York, came up with his own design for a land-based
revolving gun tower. To illustrate the invention he carved a
miniature version from a four-inch block of ivory. The
following year he built an ironclad model seven feet in
diameter and in January 1843 he patented the idea.

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Early Rotating Buildings

In 1883 French caricaturist and novelist Albert Robida


published the first in a trilogy of illustrated futuristic novels.
The Twenteith Century predicted a future of comfort and
social equality made possible by nineteenth century
industry and innovation.

In Robidas vision of futuristic life in Paris, houses that


combine the appearance of chateaus and train carriages
are constructed on a circular platform placed atop
existing dwellings. The platform is rotated by a servant
immediately below using a hand crank, and the tail or fin
extending diagonally from the bottom of the rotating
section is similar to those seen on post mills.

According to the author, the rooftop rotating house is


necessary because most transportation in the twentieth
century would be done in dirigible-like flying machines
called aerocabs and aeroyachts that would be boarded
at roof level, and the growth of the Parisian population
and pollution would force new construction ever higher.

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Early Rotating Buildings Right : Jesse Lakes revolving tower, 1895
Left : revolving tower in Yarmouth based
on Lakes design.

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Right : Revolving tower at


southend-on-sea , England,
1900.

Left : Patent for revolving


tower based on Jesse
Lakes design : note the
turntable and its wheeled
underside that rotates
around the upper face of
the platform.

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Rotating Restaurants

A Rotating/revolving restaurant is a usually tower restaurant eating space designed


to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable.
The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The
revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables patrons to
enjoy a panoramic view without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often
located on upper stories of hotels, television towers, and skyscrapers.

It wasn't just the recipes that were faddish. The 1960s were halcyon times for
restaurant experiences that hold almost no appeal today, from the dine-o-mat to
the drive-in diner. But one curious product of this era had true staying power: the
revolving restaurant.

1933 1960 1970 1961


1959 Cairo Tower , Egypt.
Sightseeing Restaurant The Stuttgart largely associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and
for Chicago worlds fair. Fernsehturm expositions , from the CN Tower in Toronto, the
(TV. Tower) Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, the Sunsphere in
Knoxville, and the Tower of the Americas in San
Antonio, La Ronde in honolulu, to the Spce
needle for the worlds fair in Seattle.
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The revolving
restaurant's debut
actually occurred
in Germany, with
its first iteration
appearing in 1959
in Stuttgart. Civic
authorities
constructing a TV.
tower were looking
for some
additional means
to wring use from
the building, and
they found it in
food. They put a
restaurant in the
tower, and in the
spirit of postwar
West German
economic hubris,
the Stuttgart
Fernsehturm
would turn
offering at-table
views of not merely
one but every
possible vista.

TV. Tower in Stuttgart, 1959


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The Sunsphere in knoxville, 1982 Worlds Fair

The first revolving restaurant in the U.S., La Ronde,


opened in 1961 in Honolulu, atop the Ala Moana
Building (it's since been lost). La Ronde was soon
followed by the Space Needle, built for the 1962
Worlds Fair in Seattle, and then by a range of North
American peers that are likely familiar to you:
structuresand their respective restaurantslargely
associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and
expositions, from the CN Tower in Toronto, the Skylon
Tower in Niagara Falls, and the Sunsphere in
Knoxville, to the Tower of the Americas in San
Antonio.

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Cairo Tower in Egypt, 1961

Most European spinning restaurant construction


happened at the same time, from the Donauturm
in Vienna to the Olympiaturm in Munich. Towers in
Cairo, Kenya, the Philippines, and many other
locations soon joined the revolving revolution. The
Eastern Bloc embraced the gimmick too, most
notably in the Fernsehturm in East Berlin and the
Ostankino Tower in Moscow, but also more
remotely, in Tallinn and across the Central Asian
Republics.

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Designing a building on a turntable

The basic form of revolving portion of the building was simple: A circular
structure containing a platform rotated around a central core, which held
elevators, kitchens, and so on, designed to ensure that every table cycled
through a view of the surrounding landscape at a carefully calibrated
speed.

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Designing a building on a turntable

Rotating a floor, as it turns out, isn't particularly technically complicated.


Mickey Steinberg, a structural engineer on several notable John Portman
hotel projects (the leafy, atrium-laden designs found in many U.S. cities)
explained in a recent interview that the engineering requirements of the
revolving structure became quite simple. A mechanism perfected by a
Connecticut firm called Macton built the "turntables" for most American
and several international revolving restaurants (its only competitor even
today is the Chinese firm Weizhong, which has dominated Asian
construction and is growing rapidly).

The pattern was always the same, Steinberg said: "We built a floor and
then we contracted with them to build a turntable."

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Designing a building on a turntable
The wheeled turntable mechanism in one rotating tower
The restaurant rests on a thin steel
platform, which sits on top of a series of
wheels connected to the floor. The
propulsion? Frequently, a motor with only
about horsepower, according to
Steinberg, attached to an angled steel
plate with "wheels on both sides like a
clutch." A prominent question was just
how rapidly to turn the platformhow fast
to patrons want to spin?

Macton recommended 40 to 50 minutes


for most rotations, which some thought
was merely an arbitrary speed,
But Steinberg said that the management
at one hotel noticed that people would
often get off the spinning deck after one
rotation at the same place where they
got onto get another cocktail at the
bar.

So they decided to subtly encourage the


speed, adjusting the rotation to a half
hour. "If we speed it up we'll sell more
drinks because they'll get off quicker," the
hotel management reasoned. Patrons did
speed up their drinkingbut there was
also an unforeseen side effect. "They were
also getting sick all the time! So they soon
set that back to regular speed."
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Typically, the turntable itself was entirely


independent of the surrounding structure;
a timeworn diner's test was to leave
something on the lip of the unmoving
edge of the floor and watch it inch away.
Some structures completely separated the
static core from the spinning outer ring
with a set of windows.

Whatever their exact engineering, nearly


all spinning restaurants were designed
with a sole, obvious goal: Unobstructed
viewsthe circular, revolving portion is
surrounded by curved glass. There was
more variety is to be found in the kind of
buildings that supported them, though.

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Rotating Restaurants Forms

Most rotating restaurants are like architectural barnacles. They rely on


other "host" buildings or natural features to provide the necessary height,
concentration of visitors, and a share of the design statement.

The host structure or site usually has one of three primary forms: vertical
cantilevered towers (the superstars of the genre); commercial and
industrial buildings; or mountain tops.

Towers build adjacent to tourist-frequented natural wonders like Niagra


Falls or expositions like the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas,
served primarily as observation deck, restaurant attraction, and instant
landmark. Other towers were first and foremost telecommunications
platforms-revolving restaurants and observation decks were ancillary
income generators.

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Rotating Restaurants Forms

Spire restaurants, a series of columns


or needles supporting an orb or
cylinder, are certainly the best-
known typeand the stuff of
countless skyline whether they
accommodate some other function
or exist only for the fine view.

Occasionally, these towers


culminate in observation structures,
like the sparkled microphone of the
Reunion tower in Dallas, or the
pillared disco ball of the Sunsphere
in Knoxille. But spires usually rise
through and beyond any
restaurants. The towers themselves
are typically dull linear or mildly
narrowing columns; visual interest is
a question of whatever cylinder,
globe or discus these assorted
javelins seem to have speared. They
make for interesting contrastive
additions to cityscapes, but are
generally a pretty uniform lot.

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Top: The Space Needle in Seattle.


Bottom: The Munich Olympiaturm.

The Olympiaturm in Munich,


above, is a great example of how
a stacking pattern creates visual
appeal and interest from afar. The
most dynamic spinning buildings
have a base that's more than just a
pillar. For instance, the lattice
frame of the Space Needle makes
the tower a rare case of appearing
both elegant and dynamic.

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Alttitude Restaurant, Kazmic TV. Tower, Bratislava. 1975

Occasionally observation structures attempt something more


strange; the Kamzik Tower near Bratislava, has no central column.
Rather, four angled columns run along its corner, an exoskeleton
that widens and then narrows again with several clearly
separated floors exposed. It looks almost like an Eastern Bloc joke
of a building finished non-sequentially that decided to open
existing floors no matter how much sky separated them-and it
looks great.

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Naironbi's Kenyatta Conference Center

In only a few cases did


designers seem to pay some
architectural attention to
integrating the restaurant.
Several accomplished this
by simply building cylindrical
structures that naturally
mirrored or easily housed
circular restaurants at their
top. The Cairo Tower and
the Kenyatta Conference
Center were two such
strong cases, using locally-
inflected high-rise
modernismfrom local
techniques to materialsto
create successful integrated
structures.

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The Westin Peachtree Hotel, 1976

The Radisson Hotel Cincinnati


Waterfront is another example,
as are several John Portman
hotels, including the Westin
Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta and
the Detroit Marriott at the
Renaissance Center.

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Stranger designs crop up


elsewhere, such as the Genex
Tower in Belgrade, where a
spire rises along one office
tower volume and is linked to
another at its top levels.
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The third category, mountaintop


revolving restaurants, is about the
simplest expression of the form,
given that their locations
obviously don't require much of a
built platform to achieve a view.

You'll find them in the Alps, in the


Himalayas, and even, in the case
of the Drehrestaurant Allalin,
atop a glacier. The best-known
mountaintop restaurant is Piz
Gloria in Switzerland, whose
claim to fame is its role as Telly
Savalas' health spa in the 1968
James Bond film On Her Majesty's
Secret Service.

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First Rotating Residential Tower
Suite Vollard, 2001

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First Rotating Residential Tower
Suite Vollard, 2001

The Suite Vollard is a rotating residential building in Curitiba, Parana,


Brazil.
This Apartment Building was Designed by a team of Architects, headed
by Bruno de Franco & David Fisher.
This building is the only one of its kind in the world, as each of the 11
apartments can rotate 360.
Each apartment can spin individually in any direction. One rotation
takes a full hour.
The apartment rings rotate around a static core used for building
services, utilities, and all areas which require plumbing.
Each apartment was sold for approximately 300,000 $.

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First Rotating Residential Tower
Suite Vollard, 2001

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Partially Rotating House
Sharifi-Ha house, Tehran,2013
Based in Tehran, the Sharifi-ha
House by Iranian architectural
firm Nextoffice is a luxurious
home by anyone's standard.
The seven-floor residence
boasts an elevator, swimming
pool, and a sizable gym. More
interestingly, it also features
three rooms which resemble
large wooden boxes and sit
upon operable rotating
platforms.

Sharifi-ha House's three


operable rooms remain in a
flat, or "closed" position during
cold weather. However, if the
sun comes out, each room
can rotate 90 degrees
outwards with the touch of a
button to reveal a terraced
area. While the house is in its
"open" state, there's also more
ventilation and light available
to those inside.
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Partially Rotating House
Sharifi-Ha house, Tehran,2013

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Partially Rotating House
Sharifi-Ha house, Tehran,2013

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Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom
Bad Gleichenberg, Austria

Dynamic exterior of Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria consists of electric window
shutters made of perforated aluminum. Unique facade, designed by Ernst Giselbrecht, changes
throughout the day, transforming the building into a dynamic sculpture.

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Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom
Bad Gleichenberg, Austria

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Dynamic Interior Design

Yuko Shibata is the Japanese designer behind this modest-but-effective interior design
intervention. The use of two very simple non-structural wall elements turns a small
apartment into a superb multi-functional set of living, working and sleeping areas.

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Dynamic Furniture
Torque Desk by I M Lab

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Dynamic Furniture
Living room table | Yanko Design

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Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers Static/Traditional Dynamic
Santiago Calatrava, 2005

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Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers

One of the latest design trends that seems to have found appeal among some architects is a towering
skyscraper that twists its way up to the top. Possibly the first, modern, twisted skyscraper constructed
was the Turning Torso in Malm, Sweden. It is designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava
and officially opened on 27 August 2005.

After the successful


completion of the Turning
Torso, designers started
proposing similar audacious
structures elsewhere. Many
projects got shelved, others
were passed and built, and
a handful of them are
currently under construction.

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Dynamic Revolution
Dr. David Fishers Revolution, 2008

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Dr. David Fishers Revolution, 2008

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Dynamic Revolution
Dr. David Fishers Revolution

Dr. David Fishers is an Italian Architect


based in Florence owning a design firm
called Infinity Design.
Honors at Faculty of Architecture in
Florence University.
Taught as faculty in the same and in
structural engineering department.
Awarded PhD Honoris causa by the
Prodeo Institute at Columbia University
(NY).
Not a traditional architect as he
worked mainly in the field of
construction redefining the technical
and technological extremes of
building.
Involved in restoration of ancient
buildings.
Pioneer in the field of prefabrication
and dynamic buildings.

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Dynamic Revolution
The Fourth Dimension !

The greatest innovation, which characterizes David Fishers tower of endless shapes is the
introduction of the fourth dimension, Time, as an essential part of the building philosophy.

This concept brings first of all a dynamic use of space: not only does the Rotating Tower adjust to
its surroundings, it can also comply with its tenants needs and whims.

Dynamic/Rotating towers and skyscrapers, allow tenants to select their favorite view at any
moment, following the sun or letting the apartment rotate slowly to enjoy the view. This means
that the Tower's external shape and profile change constantly, projecting a new perception of
architecture: what was motionless has become dynamic.

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The Fourth Dimension !

What drove David Fisher towards Dynamic Architecture is the determination to develop new
space solutions, and at the same time better living conditions. In simple words, it is easy to see
that not much has happened since the Egyptians built the Pyramids: Architecture is still based on
the laws of static.

David Fisher describe his buildings as "designed by time, shaped by life".

Dynamic Architecture is not related only to style and design, it involves a completely new
approach to construction: Buildings are endowed with movement and are able to change their
shape over time.

For all these reasons, David Fisher thinks and designs his buildings with four dimensions, not only
height, width and depth, but also Time.

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Dynamic Revolution

The Rotating Tower brings three main futuristic


aspects, three revolutions:

1. The shape of the building changes


continuously: Buildings as Part of the
Environment, adjusting to the sun and the
wind, to the view and to our momentary
requirements. Each floor, in fact, can
rotate separately, changing every second
the shape of the building.

The Rotating Skyscraper takes on shapes


imposed by time and life, never
appearing the same in any two given
moments. It is the first building to have
four dimensions: Designed by TIME,
shaped by LIFE.

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Dynamic Revolution

2. The method of construction (Prefabrication) It


is in fact the first building produced in a
factory, giving construction a new industrial
approach.

The entire building, aside from the concrete


core, is made of prefabricated units which
arrive to the construction site completely
finished, including flooring, water piping, air
conditioning and all finishes. These units, made
of steel, aluminium, carbon fiber and other
high quality modern materials, are installed
mechanically on site.

The building, made of single separate floors, is


structurally sound and flexible at the same
time, being of very high seismic resistance.

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3. The combining technology and


luxury with environment:

The skyscraper's wind turbines,


positioned horizontally between
each floor, and solar ink on its
many roofs will produce energy
making the tower the first self-
powered building.

Thus the Rotating Tower, a unique


architectural solution, becomes
also a "power station" producing
green energy for the city.

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Dynamic Towers Advantages

1. Quality control: Industrialization enables much stricter and more reliable quality
control procedures.

2. Safety: On-site workers will operate in a functional and organized process and
the off-site workers in a comfortable environment, because of smart and well
organized assembly procedures.

3. Tailor-made solutions: Owners will be able to customize their apartments


according to their desire and avoiding knocking down walls after they receive the
key of their apartment.

4. Fast construction: An 80-story skyscraper can be built in 22 months. Pre-assembly


in a factory generates significant gains in efficiency and productivity.

5. Cost savings: Of site work and Industrialization generates economies of scale


and experience effects that significantly lower cost of construction.

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6. Resource optimization: Streamlined industrial processes ensure a proper


planning of needed resources.

7. Green "Construction Site": No more noise, debris, and waste material, reduction
in energy consumption, traffic, and pollution.

8. Extended building lifespan: Industrialization brings cutting edge materials and


technologies to construction, extending the products lifespan.

9. Low energy requirements: The increased efficiency arising from industrialization


leads to significantly lower energy requirements.

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Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers

The Dynamic Tower, the


world's first building in
motion, takes the concept
of environmental buildings
to the next level, generating
electricity for itself, making it
the first skyscraper designed
to be entirely powered by
wind and sun.

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Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers

The Dynamic Tower is an innovative


green building.

With wind turbines fitted horizontally


between each rotating floor, the 80-
story building will have up to 79 wind
turbine systems, making it a truly
green power plant. While traditional
vertical wind turbines have
environmental and social effects,
including the need for roads to build
and maintain them, in addition to the
noise and the obstruction of views,
the Dynamic Tower's wind turbines
are practically invisible and extremely
quiet due to their special shape and
the carbon fiber material of which
they are composed.

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Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers

Photovoltaic ink is to be placed on


each rotating floor to produce solar
energy. With approximately 20% of
each roof exposed to the sun and
light, a building with 80 roofs provides
the roofing space of more than 10
similar size buildings.

In addition, natural and recyclable


materials including stone, marble,
glass and wood are intended for the
interior finishing. Further improving the
energy efficiency of
the Dynamic Tower, insulated glass
and structural insulating panels are
employed. During construction of the
green tower, energy use is drastically
reduced due to the prefabrication of
the building in a factory.

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Sustainable Dynamic Towers

Dynamic buildings are a result of a


decade-long experience in the
research of innovative building
components, capable of interacting
with climate conditions and
regulating energy flows through the
building surface. The intelligent
building is thus one whose external
components become elements of
thermal self-regulation, ensuring
indoor comfort while reducing energy
consumption.

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The Rotating Tower of Dubai

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The Rotating Tower of Dubai

80 floors, 420 meters tall.


First 20 floors will be Offices.
Floors 21 to 35 will be a Luxury hotel,
Floors 36 to 70 will be Apartments.
While the top 10 floors will be luxury Villas.
Apartment sizes range from 124 sq.m to villa of size 1200 sq.m
It will be the first building in the World to be entirely constructed from
factory made prefabricated parts.
These parts are being manufactured in a factory in Altamura, Italy.
It will require just 600 people in the assembly facility and 80 technicians
on the site instead of min. 2000 workers for a similar building.
the consturction will complete by the end of this year.

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The Rotating Tower of Dubai

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The Rotating Tower of Dubai

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Gaza own perspective
On Dynamic Architecture

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Gaza own perspective on
Dynamic Architecture

Gaza city, one of the Palestinian cities and one of the most densely populated
places in the world. It has a long history as it was a cradle of many civilizations,
further it is exposed to many wars and crises since 1948 till now. In the last five years
(2009-2014), Gaza exposed three barbarian wars with massive loss of human life
and huge systematic destruction of homes.

These events caused sequential economic crises, negatively impacted in shaping


the urban fabric, and changed the architectural features in Gaza. Therefore, it is
difficult to find any application of dynamic architecture with its modern and
developed concept.

But this video will show you a new perspective on dynamic architecture in Gaza !!

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Static Urban Fabric
With dynamic form

Gaza has a static-Dynamic urban Form which can be perceived visually,


and is clearly presented:

- The fields in between buildings.


- Empty and forlorn.
- The dynamic of surrounding space.
- Buildings Weight and height.
- Buildings colors and textures.
- The street as figure.
- Crossing and squares.
- City Sky-line.
- Mobility and dynamic life.
- Dynamic form and elevation of some buildings.

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The fields in between buildings

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Empty and forlorn

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The dynamic of surrounding space

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Buildings Weight and Height

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Buildings Colors and textures

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The street as figure
Crossing and squares

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City Sky-line

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Mobility and Dynamic Life

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Static-Dynamic Form & Elevation
Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Static-Dynamic Form & Elevation
Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Static-Dynamic Form & Elevation
Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Gaza Dynamic Buildings/Towers !
Epic / Catastrophic Motion

In June 2014, Gaza has been excluded from the fourth


dimension, where the boundaries of time and place
are broken with the massive Israeli-bombardment in
the whole Gaza Strip all the time. And the buildings
were moving down, or simply it is turned upside down in
seconds!

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Gaza Dynamic Buildings/Towers !
Epic / Catastrophic Motion

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Gaza Dynamic Buildings/Towers !
Epic / Catastrophic Motion

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Gazas First Dynamic Space
Al-Dolphin Floating Restaurant
Not innovative, not perfect, but it gives you an opportunity to have a meal or a drink
while you enjoy the scene of Gaza city sky-line on one side and the scene of sunset
on the other side!!

- Its opened just in


summer, one day per
week .
- It is NOT a unique
design.
- Absence of safty factors.
- Small Functional area
which affects the whole
services.
- Low quality furniture
with bad arrangement.

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Gazas First Floating restaurant
Al-Dolphin Restaurant

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References

Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That


Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot | By Chad Randl | Princeton
Architectural Press | 1 edition |May 15, 2008.

A Brief History of Buildings That Spin | Anthony Paletta |


www.gizmodo.com | 10/16/14 9:00am.

The Dynamics of Architectural Form | Rudolf Arnheim |


University of California Press | February 7, 1978.

www.dynamicarchitecture.net

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We Finished !

For Listening ..

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