Dubai is not just an exotic city. This is a favorite vacation spot for tourists from around the world. In addition to everything, it strikes the imagination with an abundance of high-rise buildings of various shapes and shapes. It is estimated that the number of storeys is the highest city. It is hard to believe that half a century ago it was a seedy cattle-breeding village.
History of Dubai Skyscrapers
In the eighteenth century, this settlement was distinguished by the construction of a fortress called Al-Fahidi. And although there was only one floor, at that time it was a rather massive building, moreover, performing defense functions. This fortress can be considered a reference point from which the subsequent high-rise construction began. Its peak was the project that built a moving skyscraper in Dubai.
The next giant was a business complex with 39 floors, a total height of almost 150 meters, erected in 78 of the twentieth century. This was followed by the Burj al-Arab Hotel, already at 60 levels, “born” in 2000 on an island specially formed for it. 2008 enriched Dubai with the Almas tower in as many as 74 floors, and the year 2010 - Burj Khalif, stretching over 828 meters and including 163 levels.
Revolving house: project
A masterpiece of engineering should be a moving skyscraper in Dubai. Tourists, anticipating the appearance of this diva, gave him a not quite correct name, although it was under him that the building already thundered to the whole world. Naturally, the building will not move, it is not yet within the power of modern technology. The floors will be rotated. The idea as such arose from the Italian Fischer, who decided that it would be great and very romantic to meet the sunset in the same room where you watched the dawn.
The world's first moving skyscraper will not be the tallest in Dubai - only 80 floors are planned. But each will turn independently, regardless of other levels. True, only a few of them will obey the commands of the voice - those where it is supposed to equip the most expensive apartments. The rest will rotate in automatic mode.
Technical Basics
The moving skyscraper in Dubai will be placed on a solid fixed base. In the center of the structure along its entire height, it is planned to mount a huge ultra-strong rod, which will ensure stability and integrity to the structure, and the rotary mechanism will contribute to the proportionality of rotation. Solar cells on solar cells and wind turbines will provide the ability to turn. Over the entire height of the building there will be elevators that take passengers (and, most interestingly, cars) directly to the doors of the occupied premises. Thus, the moving skyscraper will become very comfortable for guests.
Some curious people fear that rotation may create difficulties for everyday life. This is not so: it is planned that a full turn of the floor will take three hours, so that during the movement there will be no dizziness, coordination will not be disturbed and dishes should not break.
Deadlines
The moving skyscraper in Dubai was conceived back in 2008. Designers were enthusiastic and promised to finish it by 2010. All necessary calculations were carried out, estimates were made, investors were found. However, the start of construction is delayed, and not for the first time. This is explained by the need to again check all the technical parameters of the miracle that is being prepared, so that it affects them not only with its appearance, but also with the planned work of the mechanisms. The first moving skyscraper (Dubai) must demonstrate all its capabilities right from the opening day. After all, in fact, it is planned to erect four such buildings only in this city, and one more in Moscow. Failure with the trial version will ruin the rest of the grandiose plans and projects.
At this time, cautious promises are being made to lay the foundation, either in 2014 or in 2015. The firm date of launching the facility into operation is not called, although, according to the calculations of the designers, it will take no more than six days to each floor.
One thing is certain: when the moving skyscraper in Dubai is ready, the number of tourists to this country will increase many times over. Even now, despite the constant delays and lack of information regarding the completion of the project, the interest in travelers' ideas by Fisher does not fall. When it becomes possible to see the original building with your own eyes, there will be no limit to the delight of the curious.