Dubai Rotating Skyscraper

So here it is, my first ever true blog post. I choose the Rotating Skyscraper of Dubai as my first post, since this structure has amazed me in quite a while. This 420 meter high, 80 floor multi-use skyscraper has, as the first ever, a fully rotating structure, with dynamic floor systems, that allow the inhabitants of each floor to rotate their building story in whatever direction they wish, thus giving the inhabitants complete control over their view and panorama of the city. This revolutionary dynamic tower is expected complete by the year 2012. 

Besides allowing the inhabitants to change their views at any time through the rotation of the structure, luxury condos at the top floors of the skyscraper also have connecting car-lifts that elevate the owners cars all the way to the very top of the skyscraper in a garage hundreds of meters above ground level! But besides this skyscraper creating new standards of skyscraper living, the Rotating Tower of Dubai also has brought with it new levels of green skyscraper building. This skyscraper is extremely enviromentally efficient and sustainable, since it in itself is actually a powerplant as well as a luxurious residential and multi purpose skyscraper!

How does it work? Well it's actually rather simple; between each floor of the building is a wind turbine which makes use of any wind activity and transforming it into electricity. Also, on top of each floor, are roofings of solar panels, which, thanks to the buildings flexibility, can be moved in such positions, that the solar energy is maximally used throughout the entire day. According to the Dynamic Architecture website, a minimum of 20% of the building's solar panels have constant direct access to sunlight. But the good news don't end here!

The construction of the skyscraper itself is also enviromentally friendly and is different from traditional skyscraper construction. The reason for this, is that all of the Rotating Tower's components are pre-fabricated and transported to the building site where they only need to be put in place on the skyscraper structure.

Such revolutionary sustainable structures are still only in development today, and only affordable for high-class citizens, but perhaps someday, such structures will be common to all and aviable in massive numbers, perhaps cities might be planned with such low-energy consuming structures, and with cities of such structures, our traditional infrastructure and way of life may be forever changed.

Andy