By Brad on Jun 22, 2008 in Amazing Stuff, Cool Stuff, The World | comments(3)
Architect Vincent Callebaut has, as inhabitat reports, created “a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees” — Lilypad.
By Brad on Jun 11, 2008 in Amazing Stuff, Cool Stuff, The World | comments(0)
Construction is scheduled to begin this month on a truly amazing innovative structure in Dubai…
Inhabitant.com describes the project…
The Dynamic Architecture building has been aptly named Rotating Tower as the floors would be capable of rotating around a central axis. It will be continually in motion, changing shape and giving residents the ability to choose a new view at the touch of a button. The form of the building would constantly change as each floor rotates separately giving a new view of the building as it turns. [...]
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The 59-floor building will be powered entirely by sun and wind energy. And, the architect claims that the building will generate 10 times more energy than required to power it, thus making it a positive energy building. Solar panels will be fitted on the roof to harness sunlight, and a total of 48 wind turbines will be sandwiched between the rotating floors, placed so that they are practically invisible. Each wind turbine could produce up to 0.3 megawatt of electricity, and it is estimated that 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy would be generated every year.
You can watch a cool promotional video about the project here.
