Shapeshifter

David Fisher’s Dynamic Tower, planned to provide apartments and villas in Dubai, offers a perspective on architecture that incorporates, and celebrates, change and evolution.  Each floor of the 80-story building will rotate on a voice command from the occupant, offering changing vistas for residents while creating a building with an exterior structure that perpetually morphs as the floors move in relation to one another.  As Fisher explains: 

The Dynamic Tower offers infinite design possibilities, as each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and ever evolving shape that introduces a fourth dimension to architecture, Time.

While the project raises the specter of conspicuous consumption (apartments will cost from US$3.7 million to US$36 million), Fisher has incorporated innovations that will make the structure more sustainable and efficient.  The towers will have reverse metering capability. Each building will draw power from wind turbines fitted between the floors and solar cells on the roof of each apartment; excess energy will be available to surrounding buildings.  More interestingly, Fisher plans to avoid the short-term aesthetic and logistical effects of construction by relying on prefabricated floors, dramatically reducing construction time and community disruption by transferring many activities off-site.

As plans for the Dubai tower move forward, Fisher has set his sights on Moscow and New York City, and received inquiries from developers in Canada, Germany, and Korea.