Dynamic Architecture

In Dubai where, apparently, money isn't a problem will be home to a new kind of skyscraper. A rotating tower about 80 stories high, and each floor can rotate independently or as a whole fast enough to be noticeable during the day and slow enough so the resident won't get moving sickness.

The rotation will be powered by wind turbines located between floors that could provide electricity no only to the whole tower, but five more towers of similar size than the Dubai Tower.


Each floor can contract or extend as the user's will, creating an interesting array as it turns. This is one tower but physically, it will never be the same form twice (well, maybe it will but you get the idea, don't you?).

Each floor will be prefabricated elsewhere and put together around the central core, reducing costs and construction time. But this by no means each "villa", as they name each floor, will be cheap. The architect David Fischer, head of Dynamic Architecture, estimates a pricely cost of US$3,000.00 per square foot, leaving the largest Villa (12,900 sq-ft/1,198.44 m2) in for US$38.7 million and the more "modest" villa (1,330 sq-ft/123.56 m2) in for the low low price of US$3.99 million.

This is expensive even for Dubai standards, but hey, if you've got the money you better get over there and get in line because they're selling out like hot-cakes. That is if the project is approved, and if it is, then you would be moving into your own rotating villa by 2010. You can even park your cheap Ferrari in your apartment with the automobile elevator that will be available so you will not carry your bags of groceries all the way from the basement to your crappy Villa, huh? sounds nice, right?

If you had the money, would you spend it on something like this?