SOLAR LOOP in Fresh Kills Park
Tower Of Power
in Taiwan
Tower of Power is a 300m long high tower that is made of eco-friendly features that generate energy using wind turbine. As it is a tower, it serves potential of providing views of surrounding area. So the design of the whole constuction has symmetrical and contains visually opened using curtain walls that provides variety of views that would make this place as a Landmark of Taiwan city. The functions are including lobby, parking area, museum, office, conference centre and observatory. Tower of Power expressed the ideas of an architect through computerised way. To represent a certain type of patterns, in this case, structural net wrapped design with the features of programmatic elements that is called exo-skeleton. The patterns are repeated but the overall design of the building is from the aggregation of the Eiffel Tower and a typical wind turbine. It also reflect the cultural aspects as the design of net pattern is from bamboo weaving or Bamboo scaffolding. Moreover, the flower-like wind turbine what is called ‘the eddy’ associate visually with the net frame of exterior. ‘
Dynamic Tower is the world’s first rotating tower in Dubai. It is also eco-friendly tower as it generate energy to operate the construction that is from wind and sun. It is 80 storey building with the functions as an apartment, restaurants, hotels and office. With 79 wind turbines and solar panels on the roof, the building generate and provides energy to the entire building so that the building can rotate. It takes around 90min for one rotation so that tenants or users of the tower would not feel any health issues and it also gives dynamic views. As it is a prefabricated construction, 30% less time is required compare to standard buildings. The design of the tower is relatively simple but the rotating feature make this building special so there is no need to decorate with any other forms or exterior designs. The building is renowned as ‘The Best Inventions from Times’. It is possible to get recognition and attraction before the building is built. Because the computerization enable to explore many sorts of designs and technology and there is not much differences between computer drawings and real buildings. The development of technology highly influences this project to calculate energy generation systems to create more accurate and satisfied result.
Dynamic Tower in Dubai
by David Fisher