UK based architect, David Fisher with his firm Dynamic Architecture, has been honored as the worldwide Architect of the year 2008 by The Developer & Builders Alliance (DBA). Other finalists were Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Foster & partners, Santiago Calatrava, and Pelli Clarke.
David Fisher design this tower in a very dinamic shape, with changes in every floor according to the need of every floor, meteorogical factors, that makes it has rotating and ever changing form in every direction. The construction is started with the top floor (80th), which is prefabricated units assembled around the core. It is a 'moving' building that has prefab floor each made in Italy to rotate freely creating a always changing, dynamic shape tower.
Fisher was graduated from the University of Florence, Italy, and he developed methods of 'dynamic architecture' that he believes will be a new concept and dimension of architecture and way of living. Even though there are many skepticism about this tower, because he has never build a skyscraper before. But he said he was working with experienced and reputable firm in UK and India.
Stated as the first 'Dynamic Tower' as Building in Motion, this building is believed to be a new symbol and era for architecture and Dubai.
Created by revolutionary architect Dr. David Fisher, the mixed use Dynamic Tower offers infinite design possibilities, as each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and ever evolving structure that introduces a fourth dimension to architecture, Time.
The Dynamic Tower in Dubai will have 80 floors, and will be 420 meters (1,380 feet) tall, Apartments will range in size from 124 square meters (1,330 square feet), to Villas of 1,200 square meters (12,900 square feet) complete with a parking space inside the apartment. the first 20 floors will be an offices, floors 21 to 35 will be a luxury hotel, floor 36 through 70 will be residential apartments, and the top 10 floors will be luxury villas located in a prime location in Dubai, it is destined to become the most prestigious building in the city.
The Dynamic Tower in Dubai will be the first skyscraper to be entirely constructed in a factory from prefabricated parts, it will require only 600 people in the assembly facility and 80 technicians on the construction site instead of 2,000 workers on a similar size traditional construction site, Construction is scheduled to be completed by 2010.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum ruler of Dubai and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, is considered by many to be a true visionary of the future, Dr. Fisher's dreams for the Dynamic Tower in Dubai were inspired by His Highness who said “Do not wait for the future to come to you…face the future.” (in dynamicarchitecture.net)
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