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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.
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.
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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64 70 AD
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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Architecture | Aliaa Shamallkh & Roba Baraka
Early Rotating Buildings
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.
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.
The pattern was always the same, Steinberg said: "We built a floor and
then we contracted with them to build a turntable."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7. Green "Construction Site": No more noise, debris, and waste material, reduction
in energy consumption, traffic, and pollution.
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.
But this video will show you a new perspective on dynamic architecture in Gaza !!
www.dynamicarchitecture.net
For Listening ..