Twisting Skyscraper Generates Its Own Electricity
Something strange may soon be dotting the skyline of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Dynamic Architecture has plans to build energy efficient skyscrapers with independently rotating floors that will generate electricity for the building's - and the surrounding neighborhood's - use.
The skyscrapers are being hailed as a major breakthrough in green building technology, with each of its 59 floors unevenly rotating around a concrete central core in the center of the structure, turning the wind turbines that are stacked between each floor.
The environmentally friendly building's wind turbines (50, in total) are exposed to the environmental surroundings, being turned by the wind and generating a total of approximately 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year.
A typical family consumes around 24,000 kilowatt-hours per year.
That means that just one wind turbine in the rotating skyscraper can provide 0.
3 megawatts of electricity.
That's enough energy for about 50 families.
According to plans, the self-powering structure will have 200 apartments.
That means it will take just 4 of the 50 wind turbines to provide energy for the residential needs of the tower.
The building plans to allocate 4 other wind turbines to contribute the power of the surrounding neighborhood, and the remaining 40 turbines to power between 5 and 10 other skyscrapers.
The idea of living on a high-rise floor that rotates 50 - 100 feet off the ground may sound ridiculous, but Dynamic Architecture claims that since the facility's floors move independently, they are safer from earthquakes and can be secured in high winds.
The cost of construction for such a tower is surprisingly low, with the central concrete core being built on site and housing the elevators, cables, plumbing and other utilities.
Each floor is prefabricated in a separate factory and transported to the building site, thereby reducing construction time and cost.
The floors are installed on the central concrete core from the top down, with the average rate of installation being one floor every one to three days.
Not only are the wind turbines generating electricity, but solar panels will also be utilized on the building.
In all, the architects plan to have an excess of $7 million in surplus electricity each year, which can then be sold and become highly profitable.
Dubai is growing at an alarming rate and is quickly becoming a center point for technological innovation.
Its modern architecture is a major draw for tourists, as well as its environmentally conscious construction.
Although the skyscraper with the electricity generating rotating floors is not yet being built, they idea is being looked at carefully and may be put into place sometime soon.
It will be an architecturally beautiful building that is also a major source of alternative energy.
Dynamic Architecture has plans to build energy efficient skyscrapers with independently rotating floors that will generate electricity for the building's - and the surrounding neighborhood's - use.
The skyscrapers are being hailed as a major breakthrough in green building technology, with each of its 59 floors unevenly rotating around a concrete central core in the center of the structure, turning the wind turbines that are stacked between each floor.
The environmentally friendly building's wind turbines (50, in total) are exposed to the environmental surroundings, being turned by the wind and generating a total of approximately 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year.
A typical family consumes around 24,000 kilowatt-hours per year.
That means that just one wind turbine in the rotating skyscraper can provide 0.
3 megawatts of electricity.
That's enough energy for about 50 families.
According to plans, the self-powering structure will have 200 apartments.
That means it will take just 4 of the 50 wind turbines to provide energy for the residential needs of the tower.
The building plans to allocate 4 other wind turbines to contribute the power of the surrounding neighborhood, and the remaining 40 turbines to power between 5 and 10 other skyscrapers.
The idea of living on a high-rise floor that rotates 50 - 100 feet off the ground may sound ridiculous, but Dynamic Architecture claims that since the facility's floors move independently, they are safer from earthquakes and can be secured in high winds.
The cost of construction for such a tower is surprisingly low, with the central concrete core being built on site and housing the elevators, cables, plumbing and other utilities.
Each floor is prefabricated in a separate factory and transported to the building site, thereby reducing construction time and cost.
The floors are installed on the central concrete core from the top down, with the average rate of installation being one floor every one to three days.
Not only are the wind turbines generating electricity, but solar panels will also be utilized on the building.
In all, the architects plan to have an excess of $7 million in surplus electricity each year, which can then be sold and become highly profitable.
Dubai is growing at an alarming rate and is quickly becoming a center point for technological innovation.
Its modern architecture is a major draw for tourists, as well as its environmentally conscious construction.
Although the skyscraper with the electricity generating rotating floors is not yet being built, they idea is being looked at carefully and may be put into place sometime soon.
It will be an architecturally beautiful building that is also a major source of alternative energy.
