Topic: Dubai to get moving skyscraper

[2sheds]

From the BBC:

Dubai to get 'moving' skyscraper

Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.

The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said David Fisher, the tower's architect.

"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added.

The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7472722.stm

Video of moving skyscraper from AP:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8QaKGSM5M" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8QaKGSM5M</a>

 

[AfroP]

i just get how this will work
its an awesome concept and will be very interesting to see the final thing is action.
but the workings of it baffle me.

[Dave]

Sounds energy efficient.

[Mr Logic]

Not sure about the claim that it will never look the same, perhaps the machinery would wear out before it got back to same positions. But unless they floors themselves change shape (?) it would have to re-align at some point, even if 1,000's of years in the future.

edit: actually watched the clip, I see now.

[Gash?]

I watched a program about this last night on BBC news i think it was, apparently the only people to sign up for one so far are Moscow, Dubai are considering it, within every moving level theres wind turbines, which provides all of the buildings energys, its cheap to make and can be made off site and put together on site, minimising building costs and the problems caused by building work going on. Also there is a lift for the wealthy penthouse owners to get there cars from ground floor, say to floor 80 where their penthouse is located!
Sounds interesting, and how the architect was saying it, i think they may be popping up in every city for the value of them, it being eco-friendly etc

[Disco]

I watched a program about this last night on BBC news i think it was, apparently the only people to sign up for one so far are Moscow, Dubai are considering it, within every moving level theres wind turbines, which provides all of the buildings energys, its cheap to make and can be made off site and put together on site, minimising building costs and the problems caused by building work going on. Also there is a lift for the wealthy penthouse owners to get there cars from ground floor, say to floor 80 where their penthouse is located!
Sounds interesting, and how the architect was saying it, i think they may be popping up in every city for the value of them, it being eco-friendly etc

Why the f*** would anyone need their car on the 80th floor?

[Nobody]

I watched a program about this last night on BBC news i think it was, apparently the only people to sign up for one so far are Moscow, Dubai are considering it, within every moving level theres wind turbines, which provides all of the buildings energys, its cheap to make and can be made off site and put together on site, minimising building costs and the problems caused by building work going on. Also there is a lift for the wealthy penthouse owners to get there cars from ground floor, say to floor 80 where their penthouse is located!
Sounds interesting, and how the architect was saying it, i think they may be popping up in every city for the value of them, it being eco-friendly etc

Why the f*** would anyone need their car on the 80th floor?

In case they want to make an insane stunt out the window?

[Stu]

I watched a program about this last night on BBC news i think it was, apparently the only people to sign up for one so far are Moscow, Dubai are considering it, within every moving level theres wind turbines, which provides all of the buildings energys, its cheap to make and can be made off site and put together on site, minimising building costs and the problems caused by building work going on. Also there is a lift for the wealthy penthouse owners to get there cars from ground floor, say to floor 80 where their penthouse is located!
Sounds interesting, and how the architect was saying it, i think they may be popping up in every city for the value of them, it being eco-friendly etc

Why the f*** would anyone need their car on the 80th floor?

a) To wash it
b) Park it in their 80th floor garage
c) Commit the most dramatic suicide attempt ever known.

[Parky]

Dubai is full of empty buildings.

[GM]

Dubai is full of empty souls.

Right on, brother.

[80]

Why the f*** would anyone need their car on the 80th floor?

a) To wash it
b) Park it in their 80th floor garage
c) Commit the most dramatic suicide attempt ever known.

I don't know why altitude would make carbon monoxide poisoning more dramatic. It's all just sitting about and going to sleep, at the end of the day.

Edit:
Btw,

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEacGiMO3K0" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEacGiMO3K0</a>

[S.S.R.]

It's been done before. New York had two.

[tmonkey]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

[Gash?]

I watched a program about this last night on BBC news i think it was, apparently the only people to sign up for one so far are Moscow, Dubai are considering it, within every moving level theres wind turbines, which provides all of the buildings energys, its cheap to make and can be made off site and put together on site, minimising building costs and the problems caused by building work going on. Also there is a lift for the wealthy penthouse owners to get there cars from ground floor, say to floor 80 where their penthouse is located!
Sounds interesting, and how the architect was saying it, i think they may be popping up in every city for the value of them, it being eco-friendly etc

Why the f*** would anyone need their car on the 80th floor?

Safety?
Knowing it isn't in the car park downstairs with the rif raf?

[GM]

It's been done before. New York had two.

Aye, I was just thinking to myself..."I wonder how long the Islamic nutjobs would allow that to stand before they fly some jumbo jets into it."

[Newcastle Fan]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

Earthquakes in the persian gulf?

Same odds as a Volcano eruption in Newcastle..

[Parky]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

Just move out the way silly.

[elbee909]

It's been done before. New York had two.

Aye, I was just thinking to myself..."I wonder how long the Islamic nutjobs would allow that to stand before they fly some jumbo jets into it."

But it can move.  It can actually duck out of the way of aeroplanes.

[GM]

It's been done before. New York had two.

Aye, I was just thinking to myself..."I wonder how long the Islamic nutjobs would allow that to stand before they fly some jumbo jets into it."

But it can move.  It can actually duck out of the way of aeroplanes.

Gerraway man, elbee ya daft bugger.

[tmonkey]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

Earthquakes in the persian gulf?

Same odds as a Volcano eruption in Newcastle..

No idea about where the earthquake hotspots or whatever relevant plates are located on the globe, just thinking in terms of the concept itself and how it would withstand an earthquake. I remember a few years ago the theory being proposed that a less rigid structure, one that could move with the vibrations/shock, would be the ideal building for that scenario.

[Dinho lad]

they'll be building bouncy buildings next.

[Tooj]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

Just move out the way silly.

[Rob W]

I beleive the "architect" has only designed bathrooms before.................. but Hey- if he can get some sheikh to kick in a zilion..................

[Rob W]

How would it hold up in an earthquake?

Earthquakes in the persian gulf?

Same odds as a Volcano eruption in Newcastle..

No idea about where the earthquake hotspots or whatever relevant plates are located on the globe, just thinking in terms of the concept itself and how it would withstand an earthquake. I remember a few years ago the theory being proposed that a less rigid structure, one that could move with the vibrations/shock, would be the ideal building for that scenario.

less earthquakes on teh south side of the Gulf than on teh northern (iranian) side but they do occur more often than around here - there hasn't been much there to damage until teh last 30 years TBH

[Adam^]

Surely this is just a rotating building not a moving one .