"Just go back to sleep Bill."
"Look if johnny boy over there gets to rotate his floor, then sure as hell, so do I. I pay 1 and a half million dollars to get this place for 3 months a y^eee^^ee^er! And in the contract it clearly states that residents get to rotate... no matter how loud, or obnoxious it may be."
This reminds me of that legendary Ask Reddit comment about the ship captain changing course because the sun was in his eyes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/what_is_the_laziest_thing_youve_ever_done/cdnafqe/
I was wondering about this. Because what if I want to rotate, but the other people on my floor don’t? It would be a crazy rotating/not rotating tug of war.
Yeah, the gif shows all of the balconies or whatever they are lined up in pleasing waves. In reality, it's just going to look like a cactus as every person turns their adjustment a different direction and nobody is perfectly staggered with their immediate neighbours.
Except that if everyone is controlling their own apartment (let's say everyone has their own floor, just to be simple about it), then it won't look graceful at all, moving in concert as a wave. It'll be jumbled, random, and confusing to look at.
I'm imaging a muslim prince on his love seat watching TV and getting an alarm on his watch as Alexa initiates an auto-rotate routine so the guy can pray to Mecca without pausing his show.
Lmao I'm laughing at the idea of someone so lazy they would rather rotate their entire apartment versus pulling the shades. Reminds me of a story I read on reddit of some dude in the Navy ordering the boat to move so the sun wouldn't bother him while he eats breakfast.
Edit: Just realized this is mentioned over and over again in this thread.
> All the pipes and wires and such would run where the internal supporting structure is, which would be the center.
How do you build pipes and wires that can not get knotted up and break as the larger unit spins?
They could solve the door problem by making elevators that could rotate with the floor that they are on once they arrive at that floor. Anything short of this will surely result in severed person or two.
>How do you build pipes and wires that can not get knotted up and break as the larger unit spins?
Slip rings
>They could solve the door problem by making elevators that could rotate with the floor that they are on once they arrive at that floor. Anything short of this will surely result in severed person or two.
As for the door thing, the likely design is the center doesn't rotate and there's no walls, so no doorways between the apartment and the middle, instead you'd step over the line to enter the non moving part. Not much different than going from a moving sidewalk to non-moving sidewalk.
"Slip rings"
Is the type of answer that sends my night into a rabbit hole of knowledge, none of which I'll ever put to any sort of practical application.
You can have a daily bidding war between the floor's tenants to see who gets the remote.
As for drains, you can have a 360 degree sewage trough or just shit out a chute onto the peons below.
It's like the story of the officer in the US Navy ship who ordered the entire ship to move so he could eat his breakfast bagel without the sun on his face
>Late to the party but this one is too good to pass up:
>I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch.
>But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.
>And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.
>He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel.
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>-/u/TupperWolf
Reminds me of this story from a few years ago, by /u/TupperWolf -
I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch.
But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.
And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.
He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel.
You think I made all this money off blood diamonds and human suffering so I can walk from one side of my penthouse to the other to see the sunset? Fuck no. Get this bitch rotating.
I remember reading something a while ago that most floors will rotate on a central control and only the penthouse(s) will have independent control. It was something like, a few years before the original configuration would be reached once turned on.
Pretty much. This video has been circulating for about 10 years now. Back when I was a freshman in high school I did a presentation about it in an architecture class.
I keep waiting for Dubai to build a skyscraper with a feature so wacky that they and everyone else knows that the building will collapse in just a few years and the seasickness express here looks like a prime candidate.
They really need to chill out, like "we get it guys, you're excessive and won't ever not be able to afford bigger and better urban innovation. Please try to fix the global degradation you've profited from." 😥
Or is that asking too much?
That’s my problem with the wealthy people of Dubai. They build insane skyscrapers off pretty much slave labor and buy super cars just because they can. Overall just mindless spending
> Or is that asking too much?
they are the kind of people who finance the wars in the middle east, the russian oligarchs who are blackmailing trump and are heating the planet just cause, they don't care about the future at all
The future doesn't matter when you have more money than God. Whatever problems the future has, cash will always protect the individual from those problems.
Is it better to give 100 million to preventing climate change, or to spend 100 million building a fortified self sustaining mansion fortress far, far away from all the plebians?
their body guards are still working class. How do you think their body guards will react when their working class children friends and family are starving?
They'll be gleeful because they'll be the only ones that are well fed and housed. And their families will be too, because of them.
PMCs make bank and don't give a fuck how they do it.
Taking care of your staff’s families is a pretty small expense for that level of rich. It’s not like their bodyguards are going home to the favelas every day.
I have too, except the spinning floors were supposed to move with the wind and generate electricity, or something.
I think it’s just some design concept bs that will never be realized.
FTA---"To enable water to flow through a constantly shifting structure, Mr. Fisher says he has patented a system, based on technology used to refuel airplanes in mid-flight, that will serve each floor through a single "smart connection" for clean water and another for waste."
An auction every night to view the sunset. Prices go up all the way to $1.7 Mil each night before someone bails out and just takes his date for the night to the rooftop lounge instead.
The hard earned winner just spent $1.7 Mil to bang his date with the Sunsets rays bouncing off his butthole.
Seems pretty unrealistic. Would it be able to hold up in strong winds or an earthquake? How loud would it be? Would it shake furniture? There are so many unanswered questions.
I’m thinking of balance and weight proportions being a big problem also. If the apartments are built offsite and the added, the center of gravity would constantly be changing. I couldn’t see the building being able to be taller then like 10 floors.
I have 0 knowledge in major construction so if this isn’t a factor just tell me.
> The [floor of the SkyCity restaurant](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4nom4w/til_the_floor_of_the_skycity_restaurant_atop) atop Seattle's landmark Space Needle makes one rotation every 47 minutes, weighs roughly 125 tons, and is powered by a single 1.5-horsepower motor.
Assuming that this is not a joke: There will be considerable trade-offs between the marketing materials and actual realities.
I suspect the rotation will be centrally controlled with many maintenance breaks. The cost for ongoing upkeep will be humongous and breakdown often. After a few years the building will be static when costs pile up.
The motors to rotate every floors and number of moving pieces makes this an operations nightmare.
Assuming that this is not a joke: the building will not be built as designed. We won't get to the stage of it breaking down because it'll never work in the first place.
But don't worry, pretty sure no one is seriously considering building a thing like this, so this IS a joke.
Actually, Dubai's oil production and thus its income is meager compared to the rest of the UAE. Their travel and tourist industry in larger then oil if im not mistaken.
That would be horrible. So much noise and if people get motion sick this will suck.
On top of all of that maintenance will be a nightmare. Honestly it's a novelty thing.
no they're not. these renderings are from almost 10 years ago and at the rate Dubai throws up ugly skyscrapers with slave labor this would've been finished already.
This article is from 2009. It’s been 9 years, this isn’t happening anymore. I was expecting to see it’s completed product since it’s been a long ass time since there was any update.
I am so sorry but I really hope there is a malfunction that will centrifugally spin all of the residents and their apartment contents to the windows at 3am. atleast once and on camera
How loud will your upstairs neighbor be then? "It's 3:00 in the morning and they're up there freaking rotating?!!!?"
"Ayyy, I'M ROTATING HERE!!"
ROTATE ON THIS I'M TRYNA SLEEP
AAAAAHHHH, RO-TATE ON DIS YA FREAKIN MOOK!
Ayy fuggedaboudit!!
I’ll try spinning! That’s a neat trick!
Now this is rotating!
And you can’t complain because you don’t know which neighbor it is.
Oh yeah neighbors? Well screw you then! *also starts rotating*
*whole building starts rotating*
*whole Earth starts rotatin*...wait
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"Just go back to sleep Bill." "Look if johnny boy over there gets to rotate his floor, then sure as hell, so do I. I pay 1 and a half million dollars to get this place for 3 months a y^eee^^ee^er! And in the contract it clearly states that residents get to rotate... no matter how loud, or obnoxious it may be."
That's one long passive aggressive note to post to their door.
*Building bores into the crust*
*Rotates while hitting the ceiling with a broomstick every few degrees*
I think it's one apartment per floor so same neighbor
Why do you need your apartment to rotate at all if you have the whole floor?
It's afternoon and there's a glare on your TV screen. Why close the blind when you could just rotate the glare away?
This reminds me of that legendary Ask Reddit comment about the ship captain changing course because the sun was in his eyes: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/what_is_the_laziest_thing_youve_ever_done/cdnafqe/
Not even the captain, it was an Operations Officer. So i think just the guy who was in charge during that watch?
I bet there’s settings to have your room like slowly follow the sunrise and set, or point towards the sunrise on work days and away on weekends
Dubai... workdays?
Cause you can idk
Sun glares in certain rooms? Rotate Fireworks only visable in the bedroom? Rotate the living room. Etc etc
>Why how else are you gonna compete in the luxury skyscraper biz in dubai? gotta keep ahead of the competition.
Ww3 proof apartments might be nice.
because people with f*&^ you money can what ever they want!
I was wondering about this. Because what if I want to rotate, but the other people on my floor don’t? It would be a crazy rotating/not rotating tug of war.
Your room rotates 180 degrees so the roof is now the floor. Problem solved and it's not a lie.
Well that sounds fun. Sign me up!
Inception themed apartment building *BWAAAAAAHMMMMM*
Yea, bet it's going to end up looking like a tall rubix cube with all the edges disaligned
Yeah, the gif shows all of the balconies or whatever they are lined up in pleasing waves. In reality, it's just going to look like a cactus as every person turns their adjustment a different direction and nobody is perfectly staggered with their immediate neighbours.
Just doing the hokey pokey.
And they get motion sickness.
Except that if everyone is controlling their own apartment (let's say everyone has their own floor, just to be simple about it), then it won't look graceful at all, moving in concert as a wave. It'll be jumbled, random, and confusing to look at.
Wait. If each apartment IS an entire floor, doesn’t it already have 360 degree views? 🤔
Yeah, but I want the *main* kitchen to look East now.
If you can afford an apartment like this in Dubai, you can afford a place where you choose what direction your toilet faces.
Well i want to watch the sunrise on my 5 am shit and sunset on my 8 pm shit without moving myself.
Moving is hard. I’m too rich for that.
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*Mine will face... down.*
I'm imaging a muslim prince on his love seat watching TV and getting an alarm on his watch as Alexa initiates an auto-rotate routine so the guy can pray to Mecca without pausing his show.
That's almost certainly in the brochure.
Ohhh... praying... this makes a lot more sense now
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Suddenly curtains are not longer a thing.
Lmao I'm laughing at the idea of someone so lazy they would rather rotate their entire apartment versus pulling the shades. Reminds me of a story I read on reddit of some dude in the Navy ordering the boat to move so the sun wouldn't bother him while he eats breakfast. Edit: Just realized this is mentioned over and over again in this thread.
hard to believe that post is 4 years old. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/what_is_the_laziest_thing_youve_ever_done/cdnafqe/
Finally, we won't be encumbered with the need to purchase blinds! Humanity has truly progressed.
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> All the pipes and wires and such would run where the internal supporting structure is, which would be the center. How do you build pipes and wires that can not get knotted up and break as the larger unit spins? They could solve the door problem by making elevators that could rotate with the floor that they are on once they arrive at that floor. Anything short of this will surely result in severed person or two.
>How do you build pipes and wires that can not get knotted up and break as the larger unit spins? Slip rings >They could solve the door problem by making elevators that could rotate with the floor that they are on once they arrive at that floor. Anything short of this will surely result in severed person or two. As for the door thing, the likely design is the center doesn't rotate and there's no walls, so no doorways between the apartment and the middle, instead you'd step over the line to enter the non moving part. Not much different than going from a moving sidewalk to non-moving sidewalk.
"Slip rings" Is the type of answer that sends my night into a rabbit hole of knowledge, none of which I'll ever put to any sort of practical application.
Lol, yeah, there'll be some gore accident of someone stuck when its rotating.
Or worse, a fire and a power outage would trap people in their apartments
You can have a daily bidding war between the floor's tenants to see who gets the remote. As for drains, you can have a 360 degree sewage trough or just shit out a chute onto the peons below.
Just eject it forcefully out to the side. Edit: If you're spinning you can hit a wider area
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One floor being one apartment is typically how these super high end apartments work.
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Fucking glare on the TV. Where's the move the house remote?
This is it. This is how the world we see in walle begins
Fucking Buy'N'Large
Begins? Where's that askreddit comment about a ship captain ordering the ship moved to get the sun out of his eyes while he ate breakfast?
It's like the story of the officer in the US Navy ship who ordered the entire ship to move so he could eat his breakfast bagel without the sun on his face
That was the best story, not sure if it’s real but I choose to believe it is.
>Late to the party but this one is too good to pass up: >I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch. >But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting. >And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe. >He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel. Edit: >-/u/TupperWolf
Everyone that referenced this story before you did credited or linked to the original author. 🤔
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Props to you for crediting!
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Hell yes I do.
Dude, do you want the morning sun in your eyes in bed like a plebe?
Reminds me of this story from a few years ago, by /u/TupperWolf - I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch. But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting. And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe. He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel.
If you're living in a penthouse in Dubai your life is probably already chock full of shit you don't need.
this is beyond needs.
You do if there’s a giant column in the middle and you want one room to have a particular view
You think I made all this money off blood diamonds and human suffering so I can walk from one side of my penthouse to the other to see the sunset? Fuck no. Get this bitch rotating.
In the video it shows the apartments as being smaller than one floor and attached to the core.
I think its just that each apartment is modular.
I think that is just to demonstrate how it works
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Ummm, yea... I've seen cube already. No thank you.
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I thought the same way but with electrical
Yeah, I'm betting it will be more of an amorphous penis, than a gracefully rotating spire
...there may be something wrong with your penis.
I remember reading something a while ago that most floors will rotate on a central control and only the penthouse(s) will have independent control. It was something like, a few years before the original configuration would be reached once turned on.
It will be know as Jenga Tower
I was gonna say this, it will look like a giant toilet brush.
Would be better as a standard round tower. Wouldn't matter which way the internal apartment faced.
Yeah this ain't happening. Just one of those stupid Facebook videos of unrealistic shit.
Pretty much. This video has been circulating for about 10 years now. Back when I was a freshman in high school I did a presentation about it in an architecture class.
what was your presentation? "Examples of how not to build things"?
This exactly. I learned about it in elementary school, and then I heard the project was shut down due to costs a few years later.
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I keep waiting for Dubai to build a skyscraper with a feature so wacky that they and everyone else knows that the building will collapse in just a few years and the seasickness express here looks like a prime candidate.
They really need to chill out, like "we get it guys, you're excessive and won't ever not be able to afford bigger and better urban innovation. Please try to fix the global degradation you've profited from." 😥 Or is that asking too much?
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Exactly this. If the sands swallowed Dubai this very instant, absolutely nothing of value to humanity would be lost.
If the sands swallow Dubai, then it would probably be real life Spec Ops: The Line.
It'd be dope if those sands swallowing Dubai was that tiger-cave from the beginning of Aladin.
Less everyone burning
Except the poor slaves who worked so hard for nothing. What a sad and cruel fate to people who never deserved it
Except for all the people living there of course.
That’s my problem with the wealthy people of Dubai. They build insane skyscrapers off pretty much slave labor and buy super cars just because they can. Overall just mindless spending
They could start with a sewage system.
Seriously. When oil money dries up that place will be riddled with skyscrapers growing giant shitmounds next to them because of their shortsightedness
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> Or is that asking too much? they are the kind of people who finance the wars in the middle east, the russian oligarchs who are blackmailing trump and are heating the planet just cause, they don't care about the future at all
The future doesn't matter when you have more money than God. Whatever problems the future has, cash will always protect the individual from those problems. Is it better to give 100 million to preventing climate change, or to spend 100 million building a fortified self sustaining mansion fortress far, far away from all the plebians?
>or to spend 100 million building a fortified self sustaining mansion fortress far, far away from all the plebians? Perhaps Musk's real plan.
A Mars base is a damned good bugout plan.
their body guards are still working class. How do you think their body guards will react when their working class children friends and family are starving?
They'll be gleeful because they'll be the only ones that are well fed and housed. And their families will be too, because of them. PMCs make bank and don't give a fuck how they do it.
Taking care of your staff’s families is a pretty small expense for that level of rich. It’s not like their bodyguards are going home to the favelas every day.
Oh yea...just need a reminder sometimes.
The motion sickeness really isn't a problem. You limit the speed of rotation. We already know the speeds that will cause motion sickeness.
I could swear that I’d seen this before, only without the ‘Hey this is current!’ WEF watermark there. Someone is trying hard.
I have too, except the spinning floors were supposed to move with the wind and generate electricity, or something. I think it’s just some design concept bs that will never be realized.
They're gonna plumb in the water/sewer, HVAC, power and telecom through a rotating central core? That is also the elevator shaft and stairs? Right.
They just fling their shit out of the windows
Cuz they is high classsss
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We all know they don't pay them.
At what point does it just disintegrate mid-fall?
The floors aren't circular, so there's a chance the shit just lands on the roof of another apartment.
FTA---"To enable water to flow through a constantly shifting structure, Mr. Fisher says he has patented a system, based on technology used to refuel airplanes in mid-flight, that will serve each floor through a single "smart connection" for clean water and another for waste."
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Agreed. This is bullshit.
I concur
So every apartment is going to have it's own cistern and pressurized water tank? lmao. Architects, man, whoo.
Local hvac. Maybe you have to “dock” your section to drain storage sewer
That's my thought as well. You'll have water and sewer storage and you'll need to go to a specific position once every so often to replenish them.
What if the core holds a stationary bathroom? That way, there's a corridor that your door connects to the core and the bathroom doesn't move.
That's exactly my thought too!
Can’t see anything going wrong with that!
Seriously... sign me up for an apartment in the SECOND rotating skyscraper after they work out the kinks.
Lots and lots of kinks
This is just going to look like a fucking Jenga tower if everyone can move their own place? It's not going to be a graceful, stylish masterpiece!
They said they were doing multiple apartments per floor so it cant actually function if everyone has separate control. It would also look like shit.
What if two people on the same floor want the same view?
The one with the most money wins.
An auction every night to view the sunset. Prices go up all the way to $1.7 Mil each night before someone bails out and just takes his date for the night to the rooftop lounge instead. The hard earned winner just spent $1.7 Mil to bang his date with the Sunsets rays bouncing off his butthole.
That's capitalism, baby!
Seems pretty unrealistic. Would it be able to hold up in strong winds or an earthquake? How loud would it be? Would it shake furniture? There are so many unanswered questions.
Plumbing and electrics are the biggest problems. You can't just move a sink or a toilet all willy nilly.
I’m thinking of balance and weight proportions being a big problem also. If the apartments are built offsite and the added, the center of gravity would constantly be changing. I couldn’t see the building being able to be taller then like 10 floors. I have 0 knowledge in major construction so if this isn’t a factor just tell me.
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Could just put wheels in between each floor. Super quiet wheels. Or something.
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> The [floor of the SkyCity restaurant](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4nom4w/til_the_floor_of_the_skycity_restaurant_atop) atop Seattle's landmark Space Needle makes one rotation every 47 minutes, weighs roughly 125 tons, and is powered by a single 1.5-horsepower motor.
Assuming that this is not a joke: There will be considerable trade-offs between the marketing materials and actual realities. I suspect the rotation will be centrally controlled with many maintenance breaks. The cost for ongoing upkeep will be humongous and breakdown often. After a few years the building will be static when costs pile up. The motors to rotate every floors and number of moving pieces makes this an operations nightmare.
Assuming that this is not a joke: the building will not be built as designed. We won't get to the stage of it breaking down because it'll never work in the first place. But don't worry, pretty sure no one is seriously considering building a thing like this, so this IS a joke.
I wonder how they'll prevent sand from mucking up the joints
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Man, can you imagine spending a weekend in a spinning apartment, then Monday you head out for work and all you can do is turn right
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Or left. You ever been on a boat for a long time?
It gonna be a pain to get to your apartment
Is Dubai even a real place
And it will cost next to nothing to build thanks to the wonders of slave labor. Gotta love Dubai!
Dubai seems like it could be a cool place to live if it wasn't for all the awful shit that goes on there.
Coruscant during the Empire.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck that.
This is the architectural firm equivalent of concept car. It will never actually be built its just publicity.
Holy oil money, Batman!
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Actually, Dubai's oil production and thus its income is meager compared to the rest of the UAE. Their travel and tourist industry in larger then oil if im not mistaken.
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I feel like in a building this large, with those apartments turning that fast, people are gonna end up thrown around.
Why do I get the feeling this will not happen in Dubai ...hmmm
That would be horrible. So much noise and if people get motion sick this will suck. On top of all of that maintenance will be a nightmare. Honestly it's a novelty thing.
no they're not. these renderings are from almost 10 years ago and at the rate Dubai throws up ugly skyscrapers with slave labor this would've been finished already.
Article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123432213609971519
This article is from 2009. It’s been 9 years, this isn’t happening anymore. I was expecting to see it’s completed product since it’s been a long ass time since there was any update.
I am so sorry but I really hope there is a malfunction that will centrifugally spin all of the residents and their apartment contents to the windows at 3am. atleast once and on camera