Wind-Powered Rotating Skyscraper in Dubai
- Posted by Bill Belew in Eco-friendly, Energy, Wind power
Jun 11,2008
Dubai continues to set standards and, why not with all the money the little kingdom has in the bank. Oil money. Our money.
Dr. David Fisher is the designer of this Dynamic Architecture - a wind-powered rotating skyscraper, 420 meters high and with 80 floors that rotate independently. A total of 48 wind turbines will be installed between each floor making it very environmentally friendly and capable of sustaining itself with electricity.
Dubai has some 4,000 hours of wind annually and with that kind of wind generating power, the tower will get all the annual power it needs from just four of the turbines and the other 44 will send power to support Dubai’s power grid .
The wind-powered rotating skyscraper will be built in parallel stages instead of from the ground up, with a solid concrete core and a factory nearby prefabricating each floor in segments. Each apartment will be modular and should be tailored to the individual tenant’s desires.
Another similar project, but smaller is planned for Moscow. Only 400 meters and 70 floors. I now wonder if HSBC knew about this design, before they built their eco-friendly skyscraper.
Meanwhile -‘The Donald’ and His $2B Golf Course is heading the other way.
And maybe Dubai will use Beer Bottles for their hot water system. We can only hope.
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7 Responses to “Wind-Powered Rotating Skyscraper in Dubai”
Neat. It seems also that one added bonus would be that at different times of the day you would have a different view of the skyline.
And probably a new neighbor
?
Nice post. interesting. creative ideas.
The project for Dubai was proposed 5 years ago and was canceled. It really is too bad because it was a great proposal.
What exactly is “green” about building a city in the desert? The moving of resources to this desolate place would more than make up for any idea of an ecologically responsible place.I smell greenwash all over this.
Less “Oil Money” than you think.
“A majority of the emirate’s revenues are from trade, manufacturing and financial services. Revenues from petroleum and natural gas contribute less than 6% (2006) of Dubai’s US$ 37 billion economy (2005).”
Plus if the thing can provide enough energy to power 5 other buildings around it, and the fact its prefabricated so “moving of resources” consists of shipping prefabricated units to a job site that contains only 80 people and a crane, it will be far greener than any structure its size.
This is a new proposal and could be completed by 2010.
Bill: not “our money.” It was our money until we gave it to them in exchange for their oil. Now it’s their money, and they can do whatever they darn well please with it. Just as we are free to do whatever we like with “our oil.”
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