Apartments that rotate with the sunlight in a luxury and unprecedented building was one of the most striking promises of Dubai during 2008. This tower with astonishing apartments was one of the main ambitions of entrepreneurs and the promise of a technology never seen before that had to be halted by the crisis that also affected these territories.
This site, known as Dynamic Tower, was overseen by the company Dynamic Architecture, led by architect David Fisher, and was planned as the home of a hotel and residential housing. However, the promises were swept away and this magnificent skyscraper could never be completed.
Millionaire apartments and cutting-edge technology: what Dynamic Tower was like.
The Dynamic Tower was announced as one of the most important and innovative constructions of the century, as is the case with all buildings erected in the city. The uniqueness of this site is that the 80 promised apartments could rotate on a central axis with a value exceeding 30 million dollars.
The magic of this site lies in the fact that each apartment could rotate independently of the others, and owners could choose the speed at which to do so. Among its magnificent features, the Dynamic Tower offered residents the possibility to choose to see the sunrise or sunset always from the same room. Thus, the only fixed area would be the elevators, located in the central part.
How the rotation of the apartments in the Dynamic Tower would work.
This innovative system shocked engineers and architects around the world during its announcement in 2017. The rotating capability of the entire building would depend on solar panels and 79 wind turbines. The movement of each floor could be controlled by the people present on site, who would be able to manage the rotation and its speed through physical control or voice commands.
In addition to maintaining this novel mechanism, this tower also held another title: the first prefabricated building in the world, as it was to be constructed using 40 modules that would make up the floors and then be sent to the final location. The finished project would have an approximate value of 350 million dollars, and the project team intended to replicate it in other cities such as London, Paris, New York, and Moscow.
Goodbye to apartments: why the Dynamic Tower could not be built in 2008.
The Dynamic Tower, led by David Fisher, experienced a moment of crisis during its construction and had to be halted in 2008 due to the financial crisis. However, the project moved forward in 2018, although its progress remains a mystery. Despite the obstacles, it stands as the great promise of Dubai, and many continue to promote it on social media.
In addition to this indecision and mystery surrounding the project, the professionalism of David Fisher, the director in charge of the plan, has been under scrutiny by specialists. As mentioned at that time, the tower’s designer also acknowledged that he had never built a skyscraper before. Throughout his career, he primarily worked as an academic and practiced architecture sporadically, raising doubts about his ability to tackle a project of this scale. For now, the tower remains unfinished and adds to the list of multi-million dollar megaprojects that have not come to fruition in the city.
