Thursday, December 22, 2011

DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Happy Holidays Folks

“Check it out!”


Michael Hadley has sent you a link to a blog: “Take a look at this!” Structural, and Mechanical Engineers put your thinking caps on for this Challenge!”

DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE
Today’s Environment of the Week will be Dynamic Architecture by David Fisher
 

Thank you Maricela Cordova for today’s YEOW suggestion!
[If anyone else has any YEOW’s they’d like to share, please feel free to let me know! Thx J]


Do Enjoy! Y.our E.nvironment O.f the W.eek



David Fisher (fl. c. 2000) is an Israeli-born Italian architect in Florence. He graduated from the University of Florence and also was a lecturer of architecture and structural engineering at the same university. He has designed buildings and proposed schemes for the restoration of ancient monuments. He has dealt with prefabrication and construction technologies. He has invented the concept of the “rotating tower”. David Fisher is the designer of the proposed rotating Dynamic Tower, billed as the world's first building in motion. It was designed with the firm Dynamic Architecture Group.[4] The intention was to build an 80-story skyscraper in Dubai. It would have had revolving floors, some of which could have moved on command, providing residents with an ever-changing shape along with a changing view of the Persian Gulf. This would have been Fisher's first skyscraper design.[5] In addition to Dubai, rotating towers were thought for London, Paris, New York, Moscow and Bogotá. These towers are planned to be built.
















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3 comments:

  1. no fighting for the office or room with a view!

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  2. Wonder if it makes noise when it moves? Would you hear the scraping or movement when you were inside?

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  3. What a waterprooging nightmare!

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