Rotating Architecture: resources

Here is the site I first found out about the Dynamic Tower in Dubai:

http://amazing-maststuff.blogspot.com/2008/03/worlds-first-rotating-architecture.html

Here is a YouTube video showing the movement of the Dynamic Tower in Moscow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0Uuyf8Xhw&feature=related

Here is a site of the Dynamic Tower (the rotating tower):

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/home.html

Rotating Architecture

While I was originally researching the effectiveness of different colours on solar panels, I came across a very interesting electrical generator; a rotating building. This building, called a Dynamic Tower, does not just power itself, but can also give power to other buildings effectively reducing the amount of energy needed from water dams and other such harmful electricity creating devices.

Each for is attached to a wing turbine which catches the wind and turn the entire floor. The rotation of the floor turns a generator in the middle of the building which creates electricity. The amount of electricity generated by just one of these buildings is worth nearly 7 million dollars.

With all this electricity, the tower itself is fully sustainable and can give it’s extra energy to surrounding buildings:

“As average annual power consumption of a family is estimated to be 24,000 kilowatt-hour, each turbine can supply energy for about 50 families. The Dynamic Architecture tower in Dubai will be having 200 apartments and hence four turbines can take care of their energy needs. The surplus clean energy produced by the remaining 44 turbines can light up the neighborhood of the building.” – http://amazing-maststuff.blogspot.com/2008/03/worlds-first-rotating-architecture.html

Winnipeg could benefit from such a building as we have quite a few windy days in the year. The only problem with this building being built in Winnipeg is the possibility of snow getting trapped in the wind turbines and slowing them down to a halt. Some design issues would have to be solved if we were to bring such a building to Winnipeg.