ROTATING TOWER

Dynamic Architecture

Dr. David Fisher born Haim David Fisher ca. 1949 "renowned Italian architect Dr. David Fisher", holds an honorary doctorate from a non-existent institution, has admitted to have never designed a skyscraper before, and apparently has never heard of Buckminster Fuller.

I have never seen an architect with otoscopes before.

Conceived as an architecture that could implement the fourth dimension of time, the Rotating Tower is an 80-storey, 420m mixed-use skyscraper that offers ever-changing views of the city s skyline, wherever it may be built. Promises of being the world s first prefabricated skyscraper with a construction time of only 22 months, it was first announced in 2008 that the first of several Rotating Towers was to be completed in Dubai by 2010. However, there is still no word on design progress 5 years later.

Research into the Rotating Tower and Dynamic Architecture has been challenging due to the lack of sufficient information. The illustrations provided by Dynamic Architecture do not fully explain his 'revolutionary' project or means of accomplishing such a task, nor do his interviews reveal a full understanding of the complex systems that seem absent from his architecture.

I believe that David Fisher is a fraud.

"We believe that architecture should be an output of logic and that buildings should be a result of technology and ecological ..."
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David Fisher's Dynamic Architecture website glorifies a novel idea but fails to provide anything more than enticing renderings. His manifesto is incomplete.

"David Fisher's tower of endless shapes is the introduction of the fourth dimension"
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David Fisher seduces the audience with notions of implementing 'time' into his building.

How does the mechanical relationship between each rotating unit and the centralized core work in this project?

Spacing between each rotating floor is to provide area for power-generating wind turbines. Over any given period of time, anything in motion will require maintenance. How are maintenance and repairs supposed to occur in such a cavity? How does each rotating floor cantilever such lengths?

Dynamic Architecture's ability to produce clean energy appears to be the solution to the world's energy crisis, stating that an 80-storey Rotating Tower is "...capable of producing 1,200,000 kWh of energy, and can generate enough surplus electricity to power several nearby structures."

1,200,000 kWh rivals the capability of a nuclear power plant.

The tower core seems highly unresolved. The Ferrari elevator appears to be the utmost priority. There is no garbage chute or indication of mechanical/electrical shafts, while the positioning of the egress stairs seems questionable. Aside all of this, there are critical dimensions that seem to be an attempt at providing a false sense of architectural capability.

Badass ground level resolution.

In this respect I always quote Socrates: "Correct is beautiful, beautiful is not always correct..."
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Fisher, D. (n.d.). Dynamic architecture. Retrieved April 02, 2013 from: http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/