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Dr. Ar. David H.

Fisher

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David Fisher
• 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


ARCHITECTURE IS TECHNOLOGY

• Since the beginning, with his involvement in “Binishells”


technology, David Fisher’s design studio has developed a vision
of architecture resulting from technological and economic
considerations, with aesthetics being the natural output of the
above.

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ARCHITECTURE IS FEASIBILITY

• Since the first large project, “the Marriott Aruba” , Dr. Fisher has taken
part in the complete process of construction, from the feasibility study,
to financing, to construction management and the final
commissioning of the project.
ARCHITECTURE IS FUNCTIONALITY
• For David Fisher Architecture is the space for living and the life
of the people must not be conditioned by an architect’s
extravagance.

• Infinity Design gives puts a strong focus on the flexibility of the


space as life, architecture must change together with the needs
of the people and the changes of the environmental conditions.
PREFABRICATION
PREFABRICATION
TRADITIONAL DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
REDEFINING DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
• Dynamic Architecture buildings keep modifying their
shape
• Traditional architecture – Gravity
• Dynamic architecture – Motion dynamics
• A mechanical approach to civil construction –
Transdisciplinary
• Buildings will no more remain the ‘fossilized imagination’
of the architect;
• They will change, constantly bringing new views and
experiences to us with time
• Introducing the fourth dimension in architecture : TIME
Suite Vollard
• The Suite Vollard is a futuristic 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 360º.

• 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 R$
400,000.00 ($US 300,000.00).
The Rotating Tower,
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.


• “The Rotating Tower Of Dubai will be the First
Industrial Skyscraper ever constructed. 90% of
the building will be prefabricated and assembled
on a central core, the only part built with
traditional reinforced concrete poured on the
site.”

• “I call the non-moving buildings


Tombstones......buildings should start being part
of the universe, and therefore dynamic..... How
could one think that digital homes of future will be
as immobile as our grandmother’s house.”

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