Creativity and aesthetics are
hallmarks of modern day architecture. Another spectacle achieved in this
century is the rotating constructions that move around giving a
complete view of the sites outside. Many buildings, especially towering
skyscrapers are being designed to spin around. Such a panoramic view can
also be enjoyed from individual houses that swivel around. There is
even a lighthouse and wind tower in the list that can accomplish this
feat. A hotel in Europe is also being constructed with the ability to
spin around giving guests a chance of get different views from the room.
Let’s take a look at a few such dynamic architectural wonders.
1. Michael Jantzen’s Revolving R-House
Constructed
from Accoya, a new variety of sustainable and high performance wood,
this vacation home can be assembled on site. On the exterior are
rotating walls that shelter from wind and the sun while the central room
is encased by four screens which can have multiple arrangements. It
uses eco friendly technology like wind turbines, rainwater harvesting
and photovoltaic cells, etc.
2. Environmentally Friendly Rotating House
Designed
to rotate around the central axis, this creation of Rolf Disch is
powered by solar energy. The front of this house has a triple-glazed
glass while the back is insulated to keep the interiors cool during warm
climate conditions.
3. Rotating Tower Planned For Dubai
Penthouses
that turn around is an amusing mechanism that is under construction at
the Jumeirah Village in Dubai. The 15 story tower will have the top 5
floors spinning around at a speed preset by the residents. At the summit
of the tower is a villa that will rotate and also accommodate parking
space for three vehicles and a car lift.
4. Spinning Lighthouses
The
brainchild of Don Dunick in New Zealand, it took about 18 years to
develop this idea and come up with a working plan. Now, he has even
taken up contracts for similar such projects in North America. A crane
mounted on a pedestal rotates the construction all the way round to 360
degrees.
5. Revolving House
A
beautiful building with an aesthetic construction is designed to circle
around. All the floors of this building will spin around. The building
has a magnificent white hue and a posh modern construction.
6. Rotating Wind Power Tower
Reaching
for the sky, this towering grandeur structure in Dubai built by the
eminent Italian-Israeli architect David Fisher will swivel gloriously.
It has self sufficient energy producing mechanism powered by sun and
wind.
7. The Rotating Dubai Tower
Yet
another project by the inventive and farsighted David Fisher, this is
the first building that will stay in motion. The building is about 1,380
feet tall and will accommodate around 80 floors. There will be
apartments as well as villas inside the building with parking space
inside them.
8. Rotating skyscraper in Moscow
Another
such rotating skyscraper is being built by David Fisher in Moscow. This
structure will be a gigantic 1312 feet in height and accommodate around
70 floors. An extremely elite structure, there will be very few similar
structures the world over. It will cost around 400 million dollars to
construct the building.
9. Dubai Time Residence Rotating Tower
Another
building that will rotate a full 360 degrees is under construction in
Dubai. Powered by solar energy, the building also has huge sized motors
that will enable it to turn around a whole 360 degrees over a course of
seven days.
10. Solta Island Resort First Rotating Hotel
With
so many residential building incorporating a revolving design, hotels
couldn’t be left far behind. This structure in Europe will give all its
rooms a chance to have a view of the breathtaking Adriatic Sea. It will
complete around 1.3 revolutions in a day ensuring that every room gets
alternate view of the sea, countryside and fish farm each day. The
building will not be very massive; it has three stories and is about 60
meters in diameter.
Rotating Wind Tower
Revolving R-House
2. Environmentally Friendly Rotating House
Rotating House
3. Rotating Tower Planned For Dubai
Rotating Tower
4. Spinning Lighthouses
Spinning Lighthouses
Revolving House
6. Rotating Wind Power Tower
Rotating Wind Tower
7. The Rotating Dubai Tower
Rotating towers
8. Rotating skyscraper in Moscow
Architectural designs
9. Dubai Time Residence Rotating Tower
Time Residence Rotating Tower
10. Solta Island Resort First Rotating Hotel
Solta Island Resort
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Rotating Architecture: 16 Sweet Spinning Structures
Architects have always aimed towards building bigger, wider and higher (and, recently, more sustainable as well). Now technology has made a fourth design dimension possible: movement. These 15 amazing structures shift their shapes, put a new spin on style!
(image via: Everingham Rotating House)
Don’t like the view out the window? Change it! That’s what the designers of the Everingham Rotating House
had in mind when designing this quaintly styled spinning cottage.
Thanks to perfect balancing around a precisely located center of
gravity, a motor no bigger than one used to power an average washing
machine can turn the house a full 360 degrees in about 2 hours.
(image via: RotatingHome.com)
Al and Janet Johnstone of Mountain Helix, CA, think their rotating
home is so cool, they’ve patented their plans. The heart of what the
Johnstones call – wait for it – the RotatingHome
is a SWIVEL mechanism that allows rotation in either direction without
disturbing utility connections. A RotatingHome can be set to spin once
every 30 minutes to once a day.
(image via: Inhabitat)
The Orchid House
takes kinetic housing to the next level. While its outer walls,
supporting members and central core are fixed, the interior
non-loadbearing walls can be shifted in a number of directions so that
each room is just large enough for the owner’s needs. The home includes a
sun deck that fans out over the water, supported by pontoons. The
Orchid House may look somewhat rustic but it utilizes the latest in
green technology – geothermal heating. Very much a work in progress, the
beautiful orchid House is set for completion in 2011 and recently sold
to an anonymous buyer for a whopping $14.2 million!
(image via: Trendhunter)
Revolving is another way of injecting a little kinetics into a structure, as demonstrated by artist John Körmeling’s house in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Check out the house in action here:John Körmeling’s house in Tilburg, The Netherlands
Körmeling’s house is affixed to the edge of a large turntable powered by solar panels on the house’s roof. It makes one full circuit every 24 hours, which is (hopefully) slow enough for passing drivers not to be overly distracted. Körmeling’s house is strictly art – it’s not designed to be lived in.
(image via: msnbc)
Scaling things up, here is the Heliotrope House
in Freiburg, Germany. Designed by visionary “solar architect” Rolf
Disch, the Heliotrope House rotates very slowly, just enough to track
the sun and ensure the sail-shaped solar energy collector on the roof
receives the optimum amount of sunlight.
(image via: Wired New York)
Dense urban settings lend themselves to highrise buildings and even
though the engineering is more complex, designers have still found ways
to add motion to their creations. Take the Suite Vollard
apartments in Curitiba, Brazil. Completed in 2001, the modernist
edifice features 11 rotating stories that turn 360 degrees independently
of one another. The apartments at the Suite Vollard are sold by the
floor, which eliminates any squabbles with the neighbors over who gets
the best view. Pricing is surprisingly reasonable as well, just $300,000
for each unit.
(image via: High Rise Properties)
Even more spectacular designs are leaping of the drawing board;
nowhere more so than in Dubai. The oil-rich city has become the poster
child for megaprojects and futuristic schemes like palm tree shaped
artificial islands and, most notably, truly monumental buildings. The Rotating Residences shown above may not bear the most exciting name but they do promise a living experience that will move you – literally.
(image via: Jaunted)
Any mention of Dubai would have to touch on the amazing Rotating Tower in Motion
(above), a 68-story wonder by architect David Fisher. Each of the 59
moving floors of the 313 meter (1,027 feet) high skyscraper move at a
comfortable 6 meters (about 18 feet) per minute around a central utility
spine while integral wind turbines capture the breeze to provide clean,
green power. The building will feature a designated parking area on
every floor, with the owners’ vehicles being raised and lowered as
required by special elevators.
(image via: Dynamic Architecture)
David Fisher has designed a similar spinning skyscraper for the
world’s most expensive city to live in, Moscow. Using many of the same
design features as Dubai’s Rotating Tower in Motion, the Moscow Rotating Skyscraper
is slightly larger – 70 stories towering 400 meters (1,312 feet) high.
The building is expected to be completed in the year 2010 and will be
constructed much like a familiar infant’s toy, with each pre-constructed
module being placed onto the central utility spine.
(image via: Luxique)
Now not all spinning structures are ritzy digs and not all of them
actually move – sometimes just the illusion of movement is enough to
suit the designer’s purpose. That’s the case with the Jumbo Hostel,
brainchild of Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios. Having bought an old 747
jumbo jet from a bankrupt airline, Dios plans to park it near
Stockholm’s Arlanda airport and rent out rooms to those who are board
with plain hotels. The “plane hotel” will have 25 small rooms and a
suite to stretch in place of the old flight deck.
(image via: BLDG Blog)
This artistic endeavor in Liverpool, UK, employs motion in an
eye-catching way. Richard Wilson cut a 24-foot diameter circle into the
facade of an otherwise nondescript downtown building
and attached the slice to a rotating pivot mechanism. The result is an
odd juxtaposition of 2D and 3D – proof once and for all that “England
swings like a pendulum do.”
(image via: DeputyDog)
Also from Liverpool is this pastoral arrangement of seemingly ordinary trees… yet things are not quite what they seem. Called Arbores Laetae,
Latin for “joyful trees”, the project features 17 trees of which 3
rotate into different positions as the day goes by. The trees are a
popular attraction at the British city’s biennial arts festival.
(image via: Ebaum’s World)
Luigi Colani has designed what very well may be the home of the
future, and rotation is what makes it work. The home is compact and
modular from the outside but it’s the spin within that gives the house
a unique appeal. Central to the plan is a cylindrical section that
rotates via a remote control to present a bedroom, a bathroom and a
kitchen. The house, says Colani, “was designed for young professionals
who need minimal space while they focus on (their) career.”
(image via: Blog Wired)
What better place to have a rotating home than in an actual rotating city?
Believe it or not, there’s one on the drawing boards. And yes, it’s in
Dubai. Contractor High Rise Real Estate submitted an expansive (and no
doubt expensive) plan that would see an entire city spring up from the
desert landscape. While the new urban center itself wouldn’t rotate,
most every structure in it will: stylish villas, ultramodern apartments,
swanky restaurants, mega-star hotels and more will be able to swivel,
turn and re-position themselves to take best advantage of the sun or
shade. Hospitals weren’t mentioned but if they were, you’d find them
staffed by spin doctors!
(image via: Blog Wired)
Next: 12 Unbelievable Buildings in Motion
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Foster House for sale!
1967 errichtete Richard T. Foster, Schüler von Philip Johnson, sein eigenes Haus in Wilton, Connecticut. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine runde Stahlbetonstruktur mit Stahl-Glas-Fenstern, die sich jederzeit komplett um 360° drehen kann. Im Centrum befinden sich eine Wendeltreppe und eine dünnes Stahlrohr, indem sich ein Teil der Haustechnik befindet. Das Haus wird mittels einem kleinen Elektromotor, der eigentlich für Baustellenkräne konzipiert wurde, angetrieben. Die Außenverkleidung besteht aus Holzschindeln und Cor-Ten Stahl.
2005 wurde das Foster House saniert und steht nun zum Verkauf.
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„I didn’t plan the house so that we could go riding. It was planned so that we could take advantage of the varied and beautiful views. We didn’t try to capture the sun. There didn’t seem to be any point to it”.
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