School of Civil Engineering

Seminar Presentation
Topic: Rotating Building

Presented by; Under the guidance of:

NANDINI K
NAME: KISHORE RS SRN: R16CV866 Name
Designation
School of Civil Engineering,
REVA University,
Bangalore - 64

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 Contents
1.Introduction
2.Methodology
3.Advantages & Disadvantages of Dynamic
Building
4.Case study
5.Conclusion
6.Reference

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 Introduction
• Rotating building is the building that rotates
itself by producing its own electricity.
• Each floor of the building rotates separately
in a certain interval of time. The electricity
generated in it is due to the wind turbine fitted
between each rotating floor.
• By combining motion, and the self electric
generating property of the building shows that
it is environmental friendly in nature.
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Rotating Building

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 Methodology
• Constructed entirely of prefabricated parts from factory.
• The structure is based on the reinforced concrete core of about
22mt diameter that carries all the vertical loads. The floor will be all
made of steel structure, becoming a monolithic platform, with a
cantilever up to about 15 meters.
• This means it will be made with 40 factory-built modules for each
floor.
• The modules will be arrive at the job site completely finished and
with electrical, plumbing as well as air conditioning systems ready
for use.
• Building times reduced from 30 to 18 months.
• Workers reduced to 90 people instead of 2000.
• 1 floor in 3 days
• Natural and recyclable materials including stone, marble, glass and
wood will be used for interior finishing.
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 Advantages of rotating building

• Due to its self electric generating property the building shows that it is
environmental friendly in nature

• Construction would be much quicker, compared to similar sized

traditional towers.

• Workers needed less in numbers in the site work, because all the
workers are utilized in the factory work

• Rotating building enables its occupants to have a 360 degree view of

the scenery, citiescape outside the building and allows good sunlight
,wind rain, shadow etc

• The aesthetic purpose is also served as it gives more dynamic

perspectives
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 Disadvantages of rotating building
• High tendency to twist
• Difficult in keeping the spinning
• conditions constant
• High air consumption
• Increasing imperfection in increasing the
spinning speed

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 Case study
 The approach of the idea of constructing such an advanced technique
was firstly given by architect “David Fisher”.

 The example of the building is in Dubai which is the first made rotating
building in the history.

 This tower is 420 meter (1380 feet) tall with 80 floors. The apartments
will range in size from 124squire merers.

 The total cost of the Dynamic Tower is estimated to be 700 million US

Dollars.

 Each floor will be able to rotate independently.

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• Each floor will be able to make a complete 3600 rotation around its
central axis.

• Each floor will rotate a maximum of 6 meters per minutes and it will
take 180 minutes to make a complete rotation.

• Rotation control by voice command. It is strong enough to hold the

floors in place ,and will contain the buildings elevators, which
transport peoples and cars right to their door.

• Car elevator up to 80th floor.

• Turbines will be located between each rotating floors. Fisher said that
they could generate up to 12,00,000 kilowatt-hours of energy.

• And solar panels cover the roof of each floor.

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Dynamic tower in Dubai

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 Conclusion

• The design dynamic building faces many

challenges due to the change in geometrics of
the structure.
• It is an interesting piece of architecture that
catches human attention and if more and more
projects will be running to its succeed then one
day rotating tower will change the architecture
and we will be in dynamic living.

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 Reference
• Baldev D. Prajapati1 & D. R. Pancha (2013) study of seismic and wind
effect on multi storey r.c.c., steel and composite building International
Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology, Sept. 2013
• Wakchaure M.R et al. (2012): Earthquake Analysis of High Rise
Building with and Without In filled Walls , International Journal of
Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT) Volume 2, Issue 2,
August 2012
• Ashwini Bidari(2014) Analysis of Seismic and Wind Effect on Steel Silo
Supporting Structures International Journal of Research in Advent
Technology, Vol.2, No.9, September 2014E-ISSN: 2321-9637
• Kasliwal Sagar K, Prof. M.R.Wakchaure , Anantwad Shirish (2010)
Effects of numbers and positions of shear walls on seismic behaviour of
multistorey structure ISSN: 2278-7844
• Dynamic Architecture (Rotating Tower) Dr. Arch. David Fisher.
• WWW.Google.com
• WWW.Youtube.com
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