Dubai is planning to launch a rotating skyscraper in which each floor spins independently, allowing guests to enjoy all the views surrounding them. The world-first hotel represents an incredible idea—as long as guests don’t mind the sensation of constantly rotating. The concept for the Dynamic Hotel has been in the works since 2008, but Dubai has announced the hotel is scheduled to be built in 2020. The skyscraper will be 419 m tall and comprise 80 storeys, with apartments to be built on separate floors. Each floor will be able to rotate using voice-activated technology, and there are floor-to-ceiling windows on every floor to maximise the view. This means guests can catch the sunrise each morning, and the sunset each night, all from their hotel room.
The skyscraper, designed by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher, will also feature wind turbines positioned horizontally between each floor and solar panels on the roof, which will allow it to be completely self-powered. It was reported in 2013 that up to 79 wind turbines will be fitted to each floor to generate enough energy to fuel the building’s electricity.
The Dynamic Group claims that the landmark will offer a ‘wellness experience’ rather than simply work as a hotel. “Indeed, it will no longer be a ‘hotel’, but a new product in line with today’s life,” the group’s website says. “How many stars? This ‘hotel’ will be beyond stars,” it adds.
The site says further: “This dynamic experience will offer exclusive services, luxurious accommodation and facilities for the traveller with the most cutting-edge technologies, whether for business or leisure. Dynamic Hotel guests will have the choice of spacious luxury suites or excellently appointed deluxe rooms and the benefit of exceptional service delivered by one of the world’s leading hospitality companies.”
Some of the units could be turned into apartments, which would cost $30 million each, as per Mashable.
Dynamic Tower’s architect Fisher created the design with the idea that “the motionless state of today’s houses does not reflect people’s actual lives, where everything is constantly changing”. He believes that hotels and homes should be able to “move following the sun or the wind, and adjust to their tenants’ life and mood”.
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The building is expected to be made from prefabricated units, which will then be attached to the structure’s concrete centre. Fisher’s Rotating Tower project is innovative in design and architecture, but also recognises environmental care and industrial production process as key points in the city of the future.
The plans were released in 2008 and Fisher planned to have the first building in Dubai completed by 2020. However, delays in planning permission, as well as structural design tweaks and problems with how the plumbing would work, for example, are said to have pushed this date back.
Fisher believes each floor will only take six days to assemble around the core once permission is granted and the concrete structures are in place. Each of the towers has been designed with swimming pools, gardens and even lifts for cars, meaning people can park outside their flats. The 80-storey Dubai tower is expected to cost around £355 million.
Fisher has proposed similar buildings in Moscow, London, Milan, Paris, Rome, New York and Miami. Fisher previously said that he did not want to unveil too much information because he wanted it to be kept a ‘surprise’.
