Rotatable building structure
AssigneeRotating High Towers S.A.
InventorsDavid Fisher, Laura Micol Fisher
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Abstract
A rotatable building structure (10) contains a vertical central core (14) for supporting suspended floor units (12) surrounding the core. An annular platform (22) extends from the core at corresponding floor units for providing accessibility to and from the central core. The floor units contain a drive mechanism (38, 40, 42) for rotational displacement. The wind load on the exterior side of each floor, and/or horizontal wind turbines that turn around the core but is a separate part of the floor itself, solar panels situated as a roof cover on top of each floor and a wind tool (46) deployable from the floor unit provides alternative wind power assist for rotating the floor units.
Claims43
A rotatable building structure comprising:
- at least one central core;
- a plurality of floor units attached to said central core, one or more of said floor units being an individually rotatable floor unit in rotatable displacement about the central core with the central core passing through each individually rotatable floor unit and each individually rotatable floor unit moving independently from floor units above and below said respective individually rotatable floor unit, said one or more individually rotatable floor units having a cross sectional plan view with outermost exterior perimeter points that are a non-uniform distance from said central core and with an exterior circumference in its entirety is visible from the exterior of the rotatable building structure at all times during rotation so that during rotation of the one or more individually rotatable floor units the outermost exterior perimeter points of the one or more individually rotatable floor units create a variable vertical external profile of the rotatable building structure;
- wherein said one or more individually rotatable floor units is accessible from the central core and has one or more of at least one living, hotel, office and/or commercial unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.