DUBAI | Rotating Skyscraper | 30 FLOORS | VISION - Page 2

malec · #21 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 7:48 PM**

On SSC someone suggested water tanks at the top would be filled up each day when the position of the tower is at a known point. Electricity shouldn't be a problem though, all you'd need is a coil around the core and another wire touching it.

aaron38 · #22 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 7:58 PM**

For handling the utility interconnects:
All electrical power and communications could be sent through slip rings located in the base. This would just be an AC version of the brushes on a DC motor.

Sewage could also be handled by a slip ring type system. The rotating waste pipes would open onto a circular drain of some type. You'd get an effect similar to Lecom's circular vomit ring.

For potable water, water could pour from a stationary spigot into a rotating circular tank. From there a pump would lift the water to a holding tank on the roof for pressure.

The main drawback is that these slip ring systems will be large and take up a lot of room in the base of the core, and maintainence probably sucks. But they are technically doable.

Nowhereman1280 · #23 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 12:59 AM**

I actually kinda like the design, but then again I don't think it will glow and shoot off rays of multicolored light like that in real life.

WonderlandPark · #24 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 1:24 AM**

Oh, come one, you have to be kidding, rotating?

Stop it already, tallest sundials, biggest indoor ski mountain...If there was ever a reason for $39 per barrel oil again it would be to stop this silliness.

James Bond Agent 007 · #25 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 1:36 AM**

Only in Dubai . . .

CoolCzech · #26 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 4:29 AM**

Do you think they'll draw the line at the world's first squatting tower?

CoolCzech · #27 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 4:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by WonderlandPark

Oh, come one, you have to be kidding, rotating?

Stop it already, tallest sundials, biggest indoor ski mountain...If there was ever a reason for $39 per barrel oil again it would be to stop this silliness.

Replicas of everybody else's tall buildings, anyone?

phillyskyline · #28 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 4:26 PM**

I like that crown!

foxmtbr · #29 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by CoolCzech

Do you think they'll draw the line at the world's first squatting tower?

Or perhaps Condos-on-a-Ferris-Wheel? It could be a residency for the local circus.

AltinD · #30 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 10:30 PM**

Feel insecure?

AltinD · #31 Posted **Dec 6, 2006, 10:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

After a day of living there I'd spend much of my time hanging out of the window, spreading vomit on an even circular path as the building goes around.

The tower will NOT be continously rotating. It will be in intervals.

zaphod · #32 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 6:02 AM**

What if you built one of these and it could go really really fast, like those carnival barrel rides?

The physics could be used to make it where the walls become the floor you'dutilize specially designed curved furniture. This would eliminate the need for elevators since you could just walk in a spiral pattern up the tower. Water would also be made to flow up using some sort of gently curving screw like in a concrete mixer drum.

As for waste, the drain pipes would run just to the outside of the tower walls and the waste would fly out because of the same force that holds you to the walls. Of course this would necessitate the tower be built out on its own island, and some sort of covered dock or underwater access tube lest people approaching the building be sprayed in pookie.

Alliance · #33 Posted **Dec 10, 2006, 7:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

Only in Dubai . . .

Amen. I really think it deserves the title "Vegas of the East."

Lol...I say this building and went..."Pringle's can" Its even got a chip popping out the top.

I find this concept of rotating skyscrapers...absurd.