Dynamic architecture -- high-rise buildings that move

[InternalDialogue]

Can't imagine what problems might come of this. :eyes:

Dr. David Fisher's Dynamic Tower is the first building in motion that will change its shape and add a fourth dimension to architecture: Time. The shape will be determined by each floor's direction of rotation, speed, acceleration and the timing; with timing meaning how each floor rotates compared to the other. The rotation speed will be between 60 minutes and 24 hours for one revolution.

Residents, if they own the entire floor, are able to control the speed and direction of the rotation by voice command. One can have breakfast watching the sunrise, lunch viewing the open sea, and dinner overlooking the lights of the city - all from the same place inside their unit. The other floors will be commanded by the architect, by the mayor or whoever will have the password to the computer program that will give the building a different shape at every glance.

According to Dr Fisher, these buildings will be designed by all of us, at any given moment, and will be shaped according to our needs, our present concepts of design and quite importantly, our moods - as an expression of freedom, beginning for the first time in history to control the shape of our homes and cities.

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/home.html

[HopeHoops]

1. I think they're building one of these in Dubai

If I remember correctly, that one will change shape based on what the wind does to it so it should always be different and it will have solar panels on the top surface of every floor.

[InternalDialogue]

5. This designer's site mentions that their Dubai project is under way.

And most of their demonstration videos feature views of Dubai. Might be the same developer.

[Shell Beau]

2. That is cool, but a little too freaky for me.

[DS1]

3. Not quite the building pirating I saw in The Meaning of Life, but it's a start

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. I want one.

[Auggie]

6. We already have those in California

Ours move rarely though, and totally involuntary.

[astonamous]

7. First, let me just say...

:puke:

Then I would have to follow that up with. Wow! Cool!

[Javaman]

8. filled with dwellers that projectile vomit. nt

[Deja Q]

9. Ah, yes. SPS strikes again?

SPS = Small Penis Syndrome