Dynamic architecture + Gaza Own Perspective on Dynamic Architecture

Topic Out Lines
1. Concept of Dynamic Architecture.
2. History of Rotating Buildings.
3. Early Rotating Building.
4. Rotating Restaurants.
5. Designing a building on a turntable.
6. First Residential Rotating Tower.
7. Partially Rotating House.
8. Dynamic/ Kinetic Façade.
9. Dynamic Interior Design.
10. Dynamic Furniture.
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IUG | College of Engineering | Department of
Architecture | Aliaa Shamallkh & Roba Baraka
8. Twisted & Dancing Buildings.
9. Dynamic Revolution (2008).
10. The Fourth Dimension.
11. Aspects of Dynamic Buildings.
12. Dynamic Towers Advantages.
13. Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers.
14. Sustainable Dynamic Tower.
15. The Rotating tower of Dubai.
16. Gaza own perspective on
Dynamic Architecture.

Meaning / Concept
Dynamic (of a process or system) characterized by constant change,
activity, progress, or movement.
Dynamic Architecture / Dynamic Buildings , the start of a new conception
in Architecture , a concept of buildings in motion which can be found in
many shapes such as:
1. Static-Dynamic (Form, Textures, Colors).
2. Partially-Dynamic (specific spaces, elevations, Interior partitions, Furniture).
3. Fully-Dynamic (the whole Building can rotate, revolve, swivel or pivot).
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Meaning / Concept
These buildings provides the possibility to orient the own space:
- according to the moments of the day (sun & light).
- in relation to the seasons.
- in relation to the surrounding environment (views).
- For the purposes of protection and defense
- or simply to own pleasure.
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Revolving Building
Early Idea, 1906
In 1906 American newspaper columnist George Ade described planning
a transatlantic voyage and reserving a stateroom that he assumed would
be filled with sunlight and warm breezes throughout the crossing. At the
outset of the journey, however, he was disappointed to realize that the
ship had to turn around as it left the dock, and that his cabin would
actually face north “with nothing coming in at the porthole except a
current of cold air direct from Labrador”. The experience gave him an
idea:
The unexpected manner in which the boat turned around has suggested
to me a scheme for a revolving apartment house. The building will be set
on giant casters and will revolve slowly, so that every apartment will have
a southern exposure at certain hours of the day, to say nothing of the
advantage of getting a new view every few minutes.

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Revolving Building
Early Idea, 1906
Ade was not the first to come up with the idea of a rotating building, but
his description and his plans to capitalize upon it neatly typify the
development of rotating architecture throughout the twentieth century.
With ever-changing vantage points revolving buildings offered a new way
of looking at the world. They rewrote spatial relationships within buildings
and reconfigured views of the world outside. With gears, motors, and ball
bearings they made nature serve the occupant, for climate or lighting
control, entertainment or spectacle. Amateur inventors, entrepreneurs,
and eccentrics took up the challenge of designing a viable, affordable
version for their own use or to package and sell to the public.
Like George Ade’s many of these designs were never built, but remained
elusive visions of a revolving future.

History of Rotating Buildings
The dynamic/rotating buildings enjoyed a surprisingly long life—and a
recent rebirth across cities in Asia and the Middle East. So where, and
when, did it all begin ?
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1st Century | 64 -70 AD
Nero’s Rotating Dining
Hall, at the Golden
House.
9th Century
Renaissance design of rotary
machine tooling enabled more
accurate rifled gun barrels, and
machine guns exponentially
multiplied firing rates.
12th Century
Revolving Summer
Houses have been
a common feature
of the gardens and
parks enjoyed by
European nobility.
13th Century | 1295 the
park of hesdin with a
dining house on wheels
that could be rolled out
to the park and turned
to face the sun.
18th Century | 1736
revolving summer house
and mount at kensington
Gardens by Bernard Lens
the young.
19th Century | 1800
Curio’s theater.
19th Century | 1841
Theodor Timby ‘s model
for his rotating
tower/turret for US
navy monitor.
19th Century | 1883
Rotating house on a
rooftop in Paris, as
envisioned by Albert
Robida in hisbook the
twentieth Century.
19th Century | 1895
Jesse Lake’s revolving
tower providing a
constantly changing
view of Atlantic city’s
Boardwalk .
19th Century | 1900
Revolving tower at
southend on sea,
England.

Early Rotating Buildings
a
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Nero’s Rotating dining hall at Domus Aurea
(Golden House), a luxurious palace
surrounded by an immense portico.
The room which has just
been discovered was
always turning around
itself just like earth does
and was powered by a
constant flow of water
from the sea and two
small lakes (Albula
waters).
1st Century
64 – 70 AD

Renaissance design, like technical innovation in
general, was often driven by military necessity.
Throughout history fighting forces have sought
advantage with stronger swords, thicker walls, and
quieter submarines.
Advances in metal and casting technology created
powerful artillery that rendered obsolete existing
fortifications, rotary machine tooling enabled more
accurate gun barrels, and machine guns
exponentially multiplied firing rates.
Great strides in the mechanization of war were made
during the nineteenth century. At least two designs
were proposed, but ultimately never built.
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Renaissance rotary machine tool for wars

Like a small-scale Parthenon on the Acropolis, the summer house sat atop a mount overlooking the palace garden with its
features. It offered opportunities to experience and meditate on landscape that was handcrafted to appear naturalistic.
In fact, the mount itself was man-made from earth excavated to create a pond elsewhere on the grounds.
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Revolving Summer House and mount at kensington Gardens by Bernard Lens the Younger , 1736

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In 1841, Theodore Timby, a nineteen-year-old from Syracuse,
New York, came up with his own design for a land-based
revolving gun tower. To illustrate the invention he carved a
miniature version from a four-inch block of ivory. The
following year he built an ironclad model seven feet in
diameter and in January 1843 he patented the idea.

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In 1883 French caricaturist and novelist Albert Robida
published the first in a trilogy of illustrated futuristic novels.
The Twenteith Century predicted a future of comfort and
social equality made possible by nineteenth century
industry and innovation.
In Robida’s vision of futuristic life in Paris, houses that
combine the appearance of chateaus and train carriages
are constructed on a circular platform placed atop
existing dwellings. The platform is rotated by a servant
immediately below using a hand crank, and the tail or fin
extending diagonally from the bottom of the rotating
section is similar to those seen on post mills.
According to the author, the rooftop rotating house is
necessary because most transportation in the twentieth
century would be done in dirigible-like flying machines
called aerocabs and aeroyachts that would be boarded
at roof level, and the growth of the Parisian population
and pollution would force new construction ever higher.

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Right : Jesse Lake’s revolving tower, 1895
Left : revolving tower in Yarmouth based
on Lake’s design.

Right : Revolving tower at
southend-on-sea , England,
1900.
Left : Patent for revolving
tower based on Jesse
Lake’s design : note the
turntable and its wheeled
underside that rotates
around the upper face of
the platform.
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Rotating Restaurants
A Rotating/revolving restaurant is a usually tower restaurant eating space designed
to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable.
The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The
revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables patrons to
enjoy a panoramic view without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often
located on upper stories of hotels, television towers, and skyscrapers.
It wasn't just the recipes that were faddish. The 1960s were halcyon times for
restaurant experiences that hold almost no appeal today, from the dine-o-mat to
the drive-in diner. But one curious product of this era had true staying power: the
revolving restaurant.
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1933
Sightseeing Restaurant
for Chicago world’s fair.
1959
The Stuttgart
Fernsehturm
(TV. Tower)
1960 1970 1961
Cairo Tower , Egypt.
largely associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and
expositions , from the CN Tower in Toronto, the
Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, the Sunsphere in
Knoxville, and the Tower of the Americas in San
Antonio, La Ronde in honolulu, to the Spce
needle for the world’s fair in Seattle.

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The revolving
restaurant's debut
actually occurred
in Germany, with
its first iteration
appearing in 1959
in Stuttgart. Civic
authorities
constructing a TV.
tower were looking
for some
additional means
to wring use from
the building, and
they found it in
food. They put a
restaurant in the
tower, and in the
spirit of postwar
West German
economic hubris,
the Stuttgart
Fernsehturm
would turn—
offering at-table
views of not merely
one but every
possible vista.
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TV. Tower in Stuttgart, 1959

The first revolving restaurant in the U.S., La Ronde,
opened in 1961 in Honolulu, atop the Ala Moana
Building (it's since been lost). La Ronde was soon
followed by the Space Needle, built for the 1962
Worlds Fair in Seattle, and then by a range of North
American peers that are likely familiar to you:
structures—and their respective restaurants—largely
associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and
expositions, from the CN Tower in Toronto, the Skylon
Tower in Niagara Falls, and the Sunsphere in
Knoxville, to the Tower of the Americas in San
Antonio.
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The Sunsphere in knoxville, 1982 World’s Fair

Most European spinning restaurant construction
happened at the same time, from the Donauturm
in Vienna to the Olympiaturm in Munich. Towers in
Cairo, Kenya, the Philippines, and many other
locations soon joined the revolving revolution. The
Eastern Bloc embraced the gimmick too, most
notably in the Fernsehturm in East Berlin and the
Ostankino Tower in Moscow, but also more
remotely, in Tallinn and across the Central Asian
Republics.
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Cairo Tower in Egypt, 1961

Designing a building on a turntable
The basic form of revolving portion of the building was simple: A circular
structure containing a platform rotated around a central core, which held
elevators, kitchens, and so on, designed to ensure that every table cycled
through a view of the surrounding landscape at a carefully calibrated
speed.
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Rotating a floor, as it turns out, isn't particularly technically complicated.
Mickey Steinberg, a structural engineer on several notable John Portman
hotel projects (the leafy, atrium-laden designs found in many U.S. cities)
explained in a recent interview that the engineering requirements of the
revolving structure became quite simple. A mechanism perfected by a
Connecticut firm called Macton built the "turntables" for most American
and several international revolving restaurants (its only competitor even
today is the Chinese firm Weizhong, which has dominated Asian
construction and is growing rapidly).
The pattern was always the same, Steinberg said: "We built a floor and
then we contracted with them to build a turntable."
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The restaurant rests on a thin steel
platform, which sits on top of a series of
wheels connected to the floor. The
propulsion? Frequently, a motor with only
about ¾ horsepower, according to
Steinberg, attached to an angled steel
plate with "wheels on both sides like a
clutch." A prominent question was just
how rapidly to turn the platform—how fast
to patrons want to spin?
Macton recommended 40 to 50 minutes
for most rotations, which some thought
was merely an arbitrary speed,
But Steinberg said that the management
at one hotel noticed that people would
often get off the spinning deck after one
rotation at the same place where they
got on—to get another cocktail at the
bar.
So they decided to subtly encourage the
speed, adjusting the rotation to a half
hour. "If we speed it up we'll sell more
drinks because they'll get off quicker," the
hotel management reasoned. Patrons did
speed up their drinking—but there was
also an unforeseen side effect. "They were
also getting sick all the time! So they soon
set that back to regular speed."
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The wheeled turntable mechanism in one rotating tower

Typically, the turntable itself was entirely
independent of the surrounding structure;
a timeworn diner's test was to leave
something on the lip of the unmoving
edge of the floor and watch it inch away.
Some structures completely separated the
static core from the spinning outer ring
with a set of windows.
Whatever their exact engineering, nearly
all spinning restaurants were designed
with a sole, obvious goal: Unobstructed
views—the circular, revolving portion is
surrounded by curved glass. There was
more variety is to be found in the kind of
buildings that supported them, though.
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Rotating Restaurants Forms
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Most rotating restaurants are like architectural barnacles. They rely on
other "host" buildings or natural features to provide the necessary height,
concentration of visitors, and a share of the design statement.
The host structure or site usually has one of three primary forms: vertical
cantilevered towers (the superstars of the genre); commercial and
industrial buildings; or mountain tops.
Towers build adjacent to tourist-frequented natural wonders like Niagra
Falls or expositions like the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas,
served primarily as observation deck, restaurant attraction, and instant
landmark. Other towers were first and foremost telecommunications
platforms—-revolving restaurants and observation decks were ancillary
income generators.

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Spire restaurants, a series of columns
or needles supporting an orb or
cylinder, are certainly the best-
known type—and the stuff of
countless skyline whether they
accommodate some other function
or exist only for the fine view.
Occasionally, these towers
culminate in observation structures,
like the sparkled microphone of the
Reunion tower in Dallas, or the
pillared disco ball of the Sunsphere
in Knoxille. But spires usually rise
through and beyond any
restaurants. The towers themselves
are typically dull linear or mildly
narrowing columns; visual interest is
a question of whatever cylinder,
globe or discus these assorted
javelins seem to have speared. They
make for interesting contrastive
additions to cityscapes, but are
generally a pretty uniform lot.

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Top: The Space Needle in Seattle.
Bottom: The Munich Olympiaturm.
The Olympiaturm in Munich,
above, is a great example of how
a stacking pattern creates visual
appeal and interest from afar. The
most dynamic spinning buildings
have a base that's more than just a
pillar. For instance, the lattice
frame of the Space Needle makes
the tower a rare case of appearing
both elegant and dynamic.

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Occasionally observation structures attempt something more
strange; the Kamzik Tower near Bratislava, has no central column.
Rather, four angled columns run along its corner, an exoskeleton
that widens and then narrows again with several clearly
separated floors exposed. It looks almost like an Eastern Bloc joke
of a building finished non-sequentially that decided to open
existing floors no matter how much sky separated them—-and it
looks great.
Alttitude Restaurant, Kazmic TV. Tower, Bratislava. 1975

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In only a few cases did
designers seem to pay some
architectural attention to
integrating the restaurant.
Several accomplished this
by simply building cylindrical
structures that naturally
mirrored or easily housed
circular restaurants at their
top. The Cairo Tower and
the Kenyatta Conference
Center were two such
strong cases, using locally-
inflected high-rise
modernism—from local
techniques to materials—to
create successful integrated
structures.
Naironbi's Kenyatta Conference Center

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The Radisson Hotel Cincinnati
Waterfront is another example,
as are several John Portman
hotels, including the Westin
Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta and
the Detroit Marriott at the
Renaissance Center.
The Westin Peachtree Hotel, 1976

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Stranger designs crop up
elsewhere, such as the Genex
Tower in Belgrade, where a
spire rises along one office
tower volume and is linked to
another at its top levels.

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The third category, mountaintop
revolving restaurants, is about the
simplest expression of the form,
given that their locations
obviously don't require much of a
built platform to achieve a view.
You'll find them in the Alps, in the
Himalayas, and even, in the case
of the Drehrestaurant Allalin,
atop a glacier. The best-known
mountaintop restaurant is Piz
Gloria in Switzerland, whose
claim to fame is its role as Telly
Savalas' health spa in the 1968
James Bond film On Her Majesty's
Secret Service.

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First Rotating Residential Tower
Suite Vollard, 2001

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Suite Vollard, 2001
 The Suite Vollard is a rotating residential building in Curitiba, Parana,
Brazil.
 This Apartment Building was Designed by a team of Architects, headed
by Bruno de Franco & David Fisher.
 This building is the only one of its kind in the world, as each of the 11
apartments can rotate 360º.
 Each apartment can spin individually in any direction. One rotation
takes a full hour.
 The apartment rings rotate around a static core used for building
services, utilities, and all areas which require plumbing.
 Each apartment was sold for approximately 300,000 $.

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Suite Vollard, 2001

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Partially Rotating House
Sharifi-Ha house, Tehran,2013
Based in Tehran, the Sharifi-ha
House by Iranian architectural
firm Nextoffice is a luxurious
home by anyone's standard.
The seven-floor residence
boasts an elevator, swimming
pool, and a sizable gym. More
interestingly, it also features
three rooms which resemble
large wooden boxes and sit
upon operable rotating
platforms.
Sharifi-ha House's three
operable rooms remain in a
flat, or "closed" position during
cold weather. However, if the
sun comes out, each room
can rotate 90 degrees
outwards with the touch of a
button to reveal a terraced
area. While the house is in its
"open" state, there's also more
ventilation and light available
to those inside.

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Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom
Bad Gleichenberg, Austria
Dynamic exterior of Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria consists of electric window
shutters made of perforated aluminum. Unique facade, designed by Ernst Giselbrecht, changes
throughout the day, transforming the building into a dynamic sculpture.

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Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom
Bad Gleichenberg, Austria

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Dynamic Interior Design
Yuko Shibata is the Japanese designer behind this modest-but-effective interior design
intervention. The use of two very simple non-structural wall elements turns a small
apartment into a superb multi-functional set of living, working and sleeping areas.

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Dynamic Interior Design

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Dynamic Furniture
Torque Desk by I M Lab

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Dynamic Furniture
Living room table | Yanko Design

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Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers Static/Traditional Dynamic
Santiago Calatrava, 2005

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One of the latest design trends that seems to have found appeal among some architects is a towering
skyscraper that twists its way up to the top. Possibly the first, modern, twisted skyscraper constructed
was the Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. It is designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava
and officially opened on 27 August 2005.
Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers
After the successful
completion of the Turning
Torso, designers started
proposing similar audacious
structures elsewhere. Many
projects got shelved, others
were passed and built, and
a handful of them are
currently under construction.

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Dynamic Revolution
Dr. David Fisher’s Revolution, 2008

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Dynamic Revolution
Dr. David Fisher’s Revolution, 2008

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Dynamic Revolution
Dr. David Fisher’s Revolution
 Dr. David Fishers is an Italian Architect
based in Florence owning a design firm
called “Infinity Design”.
 Honors at Faculty of Architecture in
Florence University.
 Taught as faculty in the same and in
structural engineering department.
 Awarded PhD Honoris causa by the
Prodeo Institute at Columbia University
(NY).
 Not a traditional architect as he
worked mainly in the field of
construction redefining the technical
and technological extremes of
building.
 Involved in restoration of ancient
buildings.
 Pioneer in the field of prefabrication
and dynamic buildings.

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Dynamic Revolution
The Fourth Dimension !
The greatest innovation, which characterizes David Fisher’s tower of endless shapes is the
introduction of the fourth dimension, Time, as an essential part of the building philosophy.
This concept brings first of all a dynamic use of space: not only does the Rotating Tower adjust to
its surroundings, it can also comply with its tenants’ needs and whims.
Dynamic/Rotating towers and skyscrapers, allow tenants to select their favorite view at any
moment, following the sun or letting the apartment rotate slowly to enjoy the view. This means
that the Tower's external shape and profile change constantly, projecting a new perception of
architecture: what was motionless has become dynamic.

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Dynamic Revolution
The Fourth Dimension !
What drove David Fisher towards Dynamic Architecture is the determination to develop new
space solutions, and at the same time better living conditions. In simple words, it is easy to see
that not much has happened since the Egyptians built the Pyramids: Architecture is still based on
the laws of static.
David Fisher describe his buildings as "designed by time, shaped by life".
Dynamic Architecture is not related only to style and design, it involves a completely new
approach to construction: Buildings are endowed with movement and are able to change their
shape over time.
For all these reasons, David Fisher thinks and designs his buildings with four dimensions, not only
height, width and depth, but also “Time”.

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The Rotating Tower brings three main futuristic
aspects, three revolutions:
1. The shape of the building changes
continuously: Buildings as Part of the
Environment, adjusting to the sun and the
wind, to the view and to our momentary
requirements. Each floor, in fact, can
rotate separately, changing every second
the shape of the building.
The Rotating Skyscraper takes on shapes
imposed by time and life, never
appearing the same in any two given
moments. It is the first building to have
four dimensions: Designed by TIME,
shaped by LIFE.
Dynamic Revolution

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Dynamic Revolution
2. The method of construction (Prefabrication) It
is in fact the first building produced in a
factory, giving construction a new industrial
approach.
The entire building, aside from the concrete
core, is made of prefabricated units which
arrive to the construction site completely
finished, including flooring, water piping, air
conditioning and all finishes. These units, made
of steel, aluminium, carbon fiber and other
high quality modern materials, are installed
“mechanically” on site.
The building, made of single separate floors, is
structurally sound and flexible at the same
time, being of very high seismic resistance.

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Dynamic Revolution
3. The combining technology and
luxury with environment:
The skyscraper's wind turbines,
positioned horizontally between
each floor, and solar ink on its
many roofs will produce energy
making the tower the first self-
powered building.
Thus the Rotating Tower, a unique
architectural solution, becomes
also a "power station" producing
green energy for the city.

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Dynamic Towers Advantages
1. Quality control: Industrialization enables much stricter and more reliable quality
control procedures.
2. Safety: On-site workers will operate in a functional and organized process and
the off-site workers in a comfortable environment, because of smart and well
organized assembly procedures.
3. Tailor-made solutions: Owners will be able to customize their apartments
according to their desire and avoiding knocking down walls after they receive the
key of their apartment.
4. Fast construction: An 80-story skyscraper can be built in 22 months. Pre-assembly
in a factory generates significant gains in efficiency and productivity.
5. Cost savings: Of site work and Industrialization generates economies of scale
and experience effects that significantly lower cost of construction.

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6. Resource optimization: Streamlined industrial processes ensure a proper
planning of needed resources.
7. Green "Construction Site": No more noise, debris, and waste material, reduction
in energy consumption, traffic, and pollution.
8. Extended building lifespan: Industrialization brings cutting edge materials and
technologies to construction, extending the products’ lifespan.
9. Low energy requirements: The increased efficiency arising from industrialization
leads to significantly lower energy requirements.

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Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers
The Dynamic Tower, the
world's first building in
motion, takes the concept
of environmental buildings
to the next level, generating
electricity for itself, making it
the first skyscraper designed
to be entirely powered by
wind and sun.

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The Dynamic Tower is an innovative
green building.
With wind turbines fitted horizontally
between each rotating floor, the 80-
story building will have up to 79 wind
turbine systems, making it a truly
green power plant. While traditional
vertical wind turbines have
environmental and social effects,
including the need for roads to build
and maintain them, in addition to the
noise and the obstruction of views,
the Dynamic Tower's wind turbines
are practically invisible and extremely
quiet due to their special shape and
the carbon fiber material of which
they are composed.

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Photovoltaic ink is to be placed on
each rotating floor to produce solar
energy. With approximately 20% of
each roof exposed to the sun and
light, a building with 80 roofs provides
the roofing space of more than 10
similar size buildings.
In addition, natural and recyclable
materials including stone, marble,
glass and wood are intended for the
interior finishing. Further improving the
energy efficiency of
the Dynamic Tower, insulated glass
and structural insulating panels are
employed. During construction of the
green tower, energy use is drastically
reduced due to the prefabrication of
the building in a factory.

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Sustainable Dynamic Towers
Dynamic buildings are a result of a
decade-long experience in the
research of innovative building
components, capable of interacting
with climate conditions and
regulating energy flows through the
building surface. The “intelligent”
building is thus one whose external
components become elements of
thermal self-regulation, ensuring
indoor comfort while reducing energy
consumption.

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The Rotating Tower of Dubai

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 80 floors, 420 meters tall.
 First 20 floors will be Offices.
 Floors 21 to 35 will be a Luxury hotel,
 Floors 36 to 70 will be Apartments.
 While the top 10 floors will be luxury Villas.
 Apartment sizes range from 124 sq.m to villa of size 1200 sq.m
 It will be the first building in the World to be entirely constructed from
factory made prefabricated parts.
 These parts are being manufactured in a factory in Altamura, Italy.
 It will require just 600 people in the assembly facility and 80 technicians
on the site instead of min. 2000 workers for a similar building.
 the consturction will complete by the end of this year.

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Gaza own perspective
On Dynamic Architecture

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Gaza own perspective on
Gaza city, one of the Palestinian cities and one of the most densely populated
places in the world. It has a long history as it was a cradle of many civilizations,
further it is exposed to many wars and crises since 1948 till now. In the last five years
(2009-2014), Gaza exposed three barbarian wars with massive loss of human life
and huge systematic destruction of homes.
These events caused sequential economic crises, negatively impacted in shaping
the urban fabric, and changed the architectural features in Gaza. Therefore, it is
difficult to find any application of dynamic architecture with its modern and
developed concept.
But this video will show you a new perspective on dynamic architecture in Gaza !!
Dynamic Architecture

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Static Urban Fabric
Gaza has a static-Dynamic urban Form which can be perceived visually,
and is clearly presented:
- The fields in between buildings.
- Empty and forlorn.
- The dynamic of surrounding space.
- Buildings Weight and height.
- Buildings colors and textures.
- The street as figure.
- Crossing and squares.
- City Sky-line.
- Mobility and dynamic life.
- Dynamic form and elevation of some buildings.
With dynamic form

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The fields in between buildings

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Empty and forlorn

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The dynamic of surrounding space

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Buildings Weight and Height

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Buildings Colors and textures

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The street as figure
Crossing and squares

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City Sky-line

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Mobility and Dynamic Life

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Static-Dynamic Form & Elevation
Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Arcmed Hotel, Gaza

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Gaza Dynamic Buildings/Towers !
Epic / Catastrophic Motion
In June 2014, Gaza has been excluded from the fourth
dimension, where the boundaries of time and place
are broken with the massive Israeli-bombardment in
the whole Gaza Strip all the time. And the buildings
were moving down, or simply it is turned upside down in
seconds!

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Gaza’s First Dynamic Space
Al-Dolphin Floating Restaurant
Not innovative, not perfect, but it gives you an opportunity to have a meal or a drink
while you enjoy the scene of Gaza city sky-line on one side and the scene of sunset
on the other side!!
- It’s opened just in
summer, one day per
week .
- It is NOT a unique
design.
- Absence of safty factors.
- Small Functional area
which affects the whole
services.
- Low quality furniture
with bad arrangement.

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Gaza’s First Floating restaurant
Al-Dolphin Restaurant

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We Finished !
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