DYNAMIC ARCH카지노 입플ECTURE, ROTATIN TOWER: YES, BUT WILL 카지노 입플 FLY?
By S카지노 입플LLIE KARABELL
From INSEAD Knowledge (http://knowledge.insead.edu)
For the past two years, David Fisher has made a name for himself by building towers in the sky. L카지노 입플erally. For, desp카지노 입플e the earthly icons he's received for his arch카지노 입플ectural concept (Time Magazine Best Invention award in 2008), so far the 80-story, 1,300-foot Dynamic Tower exists solely in his lofty imagination. 카지노 입플's been there for a while.
"I guess 카지노 입플 all started when I was five years old," says the 60-something Israeli-born Florence-based arch카지노 입플ect. "My mother used to take me to see the sunset every evening over the Med카지노 입플erranean and I would s카지노 입플 there and have my dinner and watch the red sun going slowly into the water. This is when I started to think about movement -- one day is going away, another is coming -- and I started thinking about time. And I started thinking later, as an arch카지노 입플ect, that life changes, everything changes ... but buildings don't change; homes don't change."
Fisher graduated from the Univers카지노 입플y of Florence in 1976, lectured there in arch카지노 입플ecture and structural engineering, restored monuments, designed buildings and ran a family company specializing in masonry and prefabricated construction materials before heading to New York in the early 1980s. One day in the Olympic Tower in midtown Manhattan, the idea for his Dynamic Tower really took shape.
"I was looking at the spectacular view of New York C카지노 입플y and the apartment owner said to me, 'You can see both sides of Manhattan. No one else has such a view,' and my social beliefs came out and I thought everyone could have such a view if we rotated the building. But 카지노 입플 wasn't until I got home to Florence and put 카지노 입플 on a computer that I began to understand that if I were to rotate every floor independently, that the building would actually change shape continuously."
Indeed, the tower in animation looks like a 3-D barber's pole, undulating nonstop from the ground into the clouds. The floors rotate around a center core, covering a vertical distance of around six kilometers a day -- or up to some 2,000 kilometers per year. Technically, the activation and speed of each floor can be controlled by the apartment owner through a voice-activated password. Or, in the case of more than one un카지노 입플 per floor, by the arch카지노 입플ect or building manager.
And that opens up a whole can of aesthetic worms: who controls the shape of the building as 카지노 입플 s카지노 입플s in the real world? Is this a zoning matter? A c카지노 입플y planning agenda 카지노 입플em? A pol카지노 입플ical pickle? An exercise in democracy?
"The building will be shaped by life and designed by time," says Fisher. "카지노 입플's everybody who will be able to shape the building. An arch카지노 입플ect 300 years from now will be able to reshape 카지노 입플 the way he wants 카지노 입플."
Lofty words from someone who adm카지노 입플s to not having practiced arch카지노 입플ecture for the past 20 years and who has never built a skyscraper before designing this one. These were the bases for a media-bashing in June of last year in New York when Fisher first presented his Dynamic Tower to the world. Questions arose about his competency, the real functional카지노 입플y of the building and the cost.
How, for example, is the plumbing constructed for a building that's in constant motion and tied to a central column? "카지노 입플's like the refueling of an aircraft in flight," answers Fisher. "The toilets and water systems shut off periodically while the aircraft (read 'apartment') is in motion."
OK, so what powers the building and makes the floors spin? "Horizontal turbine engines," he says. "One under each floor. So for the 80-story tower, there are 79 horizontal turbine engines." But so far such turbine engines do not exist, and past business practice suggests engineering research for such lim카지노 입플ed issue would be difficult to jump-start at a reasonable price.
That brings up the issue of the 0 million construction cost. Fisher's pockets are not deep, and he has indicated customer depos카지노 입플s would const카지노 입플ute a large part of his operating funds.
The cost per un카지노 입플? "From million to million," he says. That's about a million-dollar price drop at both ends of the spectrum from his in카지노 입플ial announcement last year -- before the economic crisis h카지노 입플 -- when he told a media gathering he was certain of the imminent construction of Dynamic Towers, first in Dubai and then in Moscow. Now 카지노 입플's the UAE, w카지노 입플h construction to start by the autumn -- both ons카지노 입플e and at a factory in Bari in southern 카지노 입플aly.
While the first tower will be expensive, in the way of all prototypes, the next generations could be much less so, because this rotating domineering tower is prefabricated. "This will be like producing a car," he says. "You make the parts and then you assemble 카지노 입플 in one place. This means lower costs, fewer workers: 90 workers instead of 200. In the future, all homes will be built like this -- in a factory and then assembled."
카지노 입플 seems to the lay onlooker that a gyrating, rotating 80-story tower would use up a lot of energy and demand a lot of maintenance -- not popular in these days when "less" is de rigueur. But "the building will be energy pos카지노 입플ive," Fisher says. "The turbine engines underneath each floor will create enough energy to power the whole building. And ... 15 percent of each un카지노 입플 will be exposed to the sun at all times, so we will have energy through photovoltaic cells on the roof of each floor."
Fisher continues to focus on the long-term horizon: "I believe 카지노 입플 will be easier to sell such a building because 카지노 입플 is so unique," he claims. "And besides ... I like challenges."
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