dynamic architecture + gaza own perspective on dynamic architecture

Topic Out Lines

1. Concept of Dynamic Architecture.

2. History of Rotating Buildings.

3. Early Rotating Building.

4. Rotating Restaurants.

5. Designing a building on a turntable.

6. First Residential Rotating Tower.

7. Partially Rotating House.

8. Dynamic/ Kinetic Façade.

9. Dynamic Interior Design.

10. Dynamic Furniture.

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8. Twisted & Dancing Buildings.

9. Dynamic Revolution (2008).

10. The Fourth Dimension.

11. Aspects of Dynamic Buildings.

12. Dynamic Towers Advantages.

13. Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers.

14. Sustainable Dynamic Tower.

15. The Rotating tower of Dubai.

16. Gaza own perspective on

Dynamic Architecture.

Meaning / Concept

Dynamic (of a process or system) characterized by constant change,

activity, progress, or movement.

Dynamic Architecture / Dynamic Buildings , the start of a new conception

in Architecture , a concept of buildings in motion which can be found in

many shapes such as:

1. Static-Dynamic (Form, Textures, Colors).

2. Partially-Dynamic (specific spaces, elevations, Interior partitions, Furniture).

3. Fully-Dynamic (the whole Building can rotate, revolve, swivel or pivot).


Meaning / Concept

These buildings provides the possibility to orient the own space:

- according to the moments of the day (sun & light).

- in relation to the seasons.

- in relation to the surrounding environment (views).

- For the purposes of protection and defense

- or simply to own pleasure.



Revolving Building Early Idea, 1906

In 1906 American newspaper columnist George Ade described planning

a transatlantic voyage and reserving a stateroom that he assumed would

be filled with sunlight and warm breezes throughout the crossing. At the

outset of the journey, however, he was disappointed to realize that the

ship had to turn around as it left the dock, and that his cabin would

actually face north “with nothing coming in at the porthole except a

current of cold air direct from Labrador”. The experience gave him an

idea:

The unexpected manner in which the boat turned around has suggested

to me a scheme for a revolving apartment house. The building will be set

on giant casters and will revolve slowly, so that every apartment will have

a southern exposure at certain hours of the day, to say nothing of the

advantage of getting a new view every few minutes.


Revolving Building Early Idea, 1906

Ade was not the first to come up with the idea of a rotating building, but

his description and his plans to capitalize upon it neatly typify the

development of rotating architecture throughout the twentieth century.

With ever-changing vantage points revolving buildings offered a new way

of looking at the world. They rewrote spatial relationships within buildings

and reconfigured views of the world outside. With gears, motors, and ball

bearings they made nature serve the occupant, for climate or lighting

control, entertainment or spectacle. Amateur inventors, entrepreneurs,

and eccentrics took up the challenge of designing a viable, affordable

version for their own use or to package and sell to the public.

Like George Ade’s many of these designs were never built, but remained

elusive visions of a revolving future.

History of Rotating Buildings

The dynamic/rotating buildings enjoyed a surprisingly long life—and a

recent rebirth across cities in Asia and the Middle East. So where, and when, did it all begin ?


1st Century | 64 -70 AD Nero’s Rotating Dining Hall, at the Golden House.

9th Century Renaissance design of rotary machine tooling enabled more accurate rifled gun barrels, and machine guns exponentially multiplied firing rates.

12th Century Revolving Summer Houses have been a common feature of the gardens and parks enjoyed by European nobility.

13th Century | 1295 the park of hesdin with a dining house on wheels that could be rolled out to the park and turned to face the sun.

18th Century | 1736 revolving summer house and mount at kensington Gardens by Bernard Lens the young.

19th Century | 1800 Curio’s theater.

19th Century | 1841 Theodor Timby ‘s model for his rotating tower/turret for US navy monitor.

19th Century | 1883 Rotating house on a rooftop in Paris, as envisioned by Albert Robida in hisbook the twentieth Century.

19th Century | 1895 Jesse Lake’s revolving tower providing a constantly changing view of Atlantic city’s Boardwalk .

19th Century | 1900 Revolving tower at southend on sea, England.

Early Rotating Buildings

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Nero’s Rotating dining hall at Domus Aurea

(Golden House), a luxurious palace

surrounded by an immense portico.

The room which has just

been discovered was

always turning around

itself just like earth does

and was powered by a

constant flow of water

from the sea and two

small lakes (Albula

waters).

1st Century 64 – 70 AD


Renaissance design, like technical innovation in general, was often driven by military necessity. Throughout history fighting forces have sought advantage with stronger swords, thicker walls, and

quieter submarines. Advances in metal and casting technology created powerful artillery that rendered obsolete existing fortifications, rotary machine tooling enabled more accurate gun barrels, and machine guns

exponentially multiplied firing rates. Great strides in the mechanization of war were made during the nineteenth century. At least two designs were proposed, but ultimately never built.


Renaissance rotary machine tool for wars


Like a small-scale Parthenon on the Acropolis, the summer house sat atop a mount overlooking the palace garden with its

features. It offered opportunities to experience and meditate on landscape that was handcrafted to appear naturalistic.

In fact, the mount itself was man-made from earth excavated to create a pond elsewhere on the grounds.


Revolving Summer House and mount at kensington Gardens by Bernard Lens the Younger , 1736



In 1841, Theodore Timby, a nineteen-year-old from Syracuse, New York, came up with his own design for a land-based revolving gun tower. To illustrate the invention he carved a

miniature version from a four-inch block of ivory. The following year he built an ironclad model seven feet in diameter and in January 1843 he patented the idea.



In 1883 French caricaturist and novelist Albert Robida published the first in a trilogy of illustrated futuristic novels. The Twenteith Century predicted a future of comfort and social equality made possible by nineteenth century industry and innovation.

In Robida’s vision of futuristic life in Paris, houses that combine the appearance of chateaus and train carriages are constructed on a circular platform placed atop existing dwellings. The platform is rotated by a servant immediately below using a hand crank, and the tail or fin

extending diagonally from the bottom of the rotating section is similar to those seen on post mills. According to the author, the rooftop rotating house is necessary because most transportation in the twentieth century would be done in dirigible-like flying machines

called aerocabs and aeroyachts that would be boarded at roof level, and the growth of the Parisian population and pollution would force new construction ever higher.



Right : Jesse Lake’s revolving tower, 1895

Left : revolving tower in Yarmouth based

on Lake’s design.


Right : Revolving tower at

southend-on-sea , England,

1900.

Left : Patent for revolving

tower based on Jesse

Lake’s design : note the

turntable and its wheeled

underside that rotates

around the upper face of

the platform.


Rotating Restaurants

A Rotating/revolving restaurant is a usually tower restaurant eating space designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable.

The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The

revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables patrons to

enjoy a panoramic view without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often

located on upper stories of hotels, television towers, and skyscrapers.

It wasn't just the recipes that were faddish. The 1960s were halcyon times for

restaurant experiences that hold almost no appeal today, from the dine-o-mat to

the drive-in diner. But one curious product of this era had true staying power: the

revolving restaurant.


1933 Sightseeing Restaurant for Chicago world’s fair.

1959 The Stuttgart Fernsehturm (TV. Tower)

1960

1970 1961 Cairo Tower , Egypt.

largely associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and expositions , from the CN Tower in Toronto, the Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, the Sunsphere in Knoxville, and the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, La Ronde in honolulu, to the Spce needle for the world’s fair in Seattle.

The revolving

restaurant's debut

actually occurred

in Germany, with

its first iteration

appearing in 1959

in Stuttgart. Civic

authorities

constructing a TV.

tower were looking

for some

additional means

to wring use from

the building, and

they found it in

food. They put a

restaurant in the

tower, and in the

spirit of postwar

West German

economic hubris,

the Stuttgart

Fernsehturm

would turn—

offering at-table

views of not merely

one but every

possible vista.


TV. Tower in Stuttgart, 1959

The first revolving restaurant in the U.S., La Ronde,

opened in 1961 in Honolulu, atop the Ala Moana

Building (it's since been lost). La Ronde was soon

followed by the Space Needle, built for the 1962

Worlds Fair in Seattle, and then by a range of North

American peers that are likely familiar to you:

structures—and their respective restaurants—largely

associated with 1960s and 1970s fairs and

expositions, from the CN Tower in Toronto, the Skylon

Tower in Niagara Falls, and the Sunsphere in

Knoxville, to the Tower of the Americas in San

Antonio.


The Sunsphere in knoxville, 1982 World’s Fair

Most European spinning restaurant construction

happened at the same time, from the Donauturm

in Vienna to the Olympiaturm in Munich. Towers in

Cairo, Kenya, the Philippines, and many other

locations soon joined the revolving revolution. The

Eastern Bloc embraced the gimmick too, most

notably in the Fernsehturm in East Berlin and the

Ostankino Tower in Moscow, but also more

remotely, in Tallinn and across the Central Asian

Republics.


Cairo Tower in Egypt, 1961

Designing a building on a turntable

The basic form of revolving portion of the building was simple: A circular

structure containing a platform rotated around a central core, which held

elevators, kitchens, and so on, designed to ensure that every table cycled

through a view of the surrounding landscape at a carefully calibrated

speed.



Rotating a floor, as it turns out, isn't particularly technically complicated.

Mickey Steinberg, a structural engineer on several notable John Portman

hotel projects (the leafy, atrium-laden designs found in many U.S. cities)

explained in a recent interview that the engineering requirements of the

revolving structure became quite simple. A mechanism perfected by a

Connecticut firm called Macton built the "turntables" for most American

and several international revolving restaurants (its only competitor even

today is the Chinese firm Weizhong, which has dominated Asian

construction and is growing rapidly).

The pattern was always the same, Steinberg said: "We built a floor and

then we contracted with them to build a turntable."



The restaurant rests on a thin steel

platform, which sits on top of a series of

wheels connected to the floor. The propulsion? Frequently, a motor with only

about ¾ horsepower, according to

Steinberg, attached to an angled steel

plate with "wheels on both sides like a

clutch." A prominent question was just

how rapidly to turn the platform—how fast to patrons want to spin?

Macton recommended 40 to 50 minutes

for most rotations, which some thought

was merely an arbitrary speed,

But Steinberg said that the management

at one hotel noticed that people would

often get off the spinning deck after one

rotation at the same place where they

got on—to get another cocktail at the

bar.

So they decided to subtly encourage the

speed, adjusting the rotation to a half

hour. "If we speed it up we'll sell more

drinks because they'll get off quicker," the

hotel management reasoned. Patrons did

speed up their drinking—but there was

also an unforeseen side effect. "They were

also getting sick all the time! So they soon

set that back to regular speed."


The wheeled turntable mechanism in one rotating tower


Typically, the turntable itself was entirely

independent of the surrounding structure;

a timeworn diner's test was to leave

something on the lip of the unmoving

edge of the floor and watch it inch away.

Some structures completely separated the

static core from the spinning outer ring

with a set of windows.

Whatever their exact engineering, nearly

all spinning restaurants were designed

with a sole, obvious goal: Unobstructed

views—the circular, revolving portion is

surrounded by curved glass. There was

more variety is to be found in the kind of

buildings that supported them, though.


Rotating Restaurants Forms


Most rotating restaurants are like architectural barnacles. They rely on

other "host" buildings or natural features to provide the necessary height,

concentration of visitors, and a share of the design statement.

The host structure or site usually has one of three primary forms: vertical

cantilevered towers (the superstars of the genre); commercial and

industrial buildings; or mountain tops.

Towers build adjacent to tourist-frequented natural wonders like Niagra

Falls or expositions like the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas,

served primarily as observation deck, restaurant attraction, and instant

landmark. Other towers were first and foremost telecommunications

platforms—-revolving restaurants and observation decks were ancillary

income generators.


Spire restaurants, a series of columns or needles supporting an orb or cylinder, are certainly the best-known type—and the stuff of

countless skyline whether they accommodate some other function or exist only for the fine view. Occasionally, these towers culminate in observation structures, like the sparkled microphone of the

Reunion tower in Dallas, or the pillared disco ball of the Sunsphere in Knoxille. But spires usually rise through and beyond any restaurants. The towers themselves are typically dull linear or mildly narrowing columns; visual interest is

a question of whatever cylinder, globe or discus these assorted javelins seem to have speared. They make for interesting contrastive additions to cityscapes, but are generally a pretty uniform lot.




Top: The Space Needle in Seattle.

Bottom: The Munich Olympiaturm.

The Olympiaturm in Munich,

above, is a great example of how

a stacking pattern creates visual

appeal and interest from afar. The

most dynamic spinning buildings

have a base that's more than just a

pillar. For instance, the lattice

frame of the Space Needle makes

the tower a rare case of appearing

both elegant and dynamic.



Occasionally observation structures attempt something more

strange; the Kamzik Tower near Bratislava, has no central column.

Rather, four angled columns run along its corner, an exoskeleton

that widens and then narrows again with several clearly

separated floors exposed. It looks almost like an Eastern Bloc joke

of a building finished non-sequentially that decided to open

existing floors no matter how much sky separated them—-and it

looks great.

Alttitude Restaurant, Kazmic TV. Tower, Bratislava. 1975



In only a few cases did

designers seem to pay some

architectural attention to

integrating the restaurant.

Several accomplished this

by simply building cylindrical

structures that naturally

mirrored or easily housed

circular restaurants at their

top. The Cairo Tower and

the Kenyatta Conference

Center were two such

strong cases, using locally-

inflected high-rise

modernism—from local

techniques to materials—to

create successful integrated

structures.

Naironbi's Kenyatta Conference Center



The Radisson Hotel Cincinnati

Waterfront is another example,

as are several John Portman

hotels, including the Westin

Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta and

the Detroit Marriott at the

Renaissance Center.

The Westin Peachtree Hotel, 1976



Stranger designs crop up

elsewhere, such as the Genex

Tower in Belgrade, where a

spire rises along one office

tower volume and is linked to

another at its top levels.



The third category, mountaintop

revolving restaurants, is about the

simplest expression of the form,

given that their locations

obviously don't require much of a

built platform to achieve a view.

You'll find them in the Alps, in the

Himalayas, and even, in the case

of the Drehrestaurant Allalin,

atop a glacier. The best-known

mountaintop restaurant is Piz

Gloria in Switzerland, whose

claim to fame is its role as Telly

Savalas' health spa in the 1968

James Bond film On Her Majesty's

Secret Service.


First Rotating Residential Tower Suite Vollard, 2001



The Suite Vollard is a rotating residential building in Curitiba, Parana,

Brazil.

This Apartment Building was Designed by a team of Architects, headed

by Bruno de Franco & David Fisher.

This building is the only one of its kind in the world, as each of the 11

apartments can rotate 360º.

Each apartment can spin individually in any direction. One rotation

takes a full hour.

The apartment rings rotate around a static core used for building

services, utilities, and all areas which require plumbing.

Each apartment was sold for approximately 300,000 $.


Partially Rotating House Sharifi-Ha house, Tehran,2013

Based in Tehran, the Sharifi-ha

House by Iranian architectural

firm Nextoffice is a luxurious

home by anyone's standard.

The seven-floor residence

boasts an elevator, swimming

pool, and a sizable gym. More

interestingly, it also features

three rooms which resemble

large wooden boxes and sit

upon operable rotating

platforms.

Sharifi-ha House's three

operable rooms remain in a

flat, or "closed" position during

cold weather. However, if the

sun comes out, each room

can rotate 90 degrees

outwards with the touch of a

button to reveal a terraced

area. While the house is in its

"open" state, there's also more

ventilation and light available

to those inside.


Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom

Bad Gleichenberg, Austria

Dynamic exterior of Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria consists of electric window

shutters made of perforated aluminum. Unique facade, designed by Ernst Giselbrecht, changes throughout the day, transforming the building into a dynamic sculpture.


Dynamic / Kinetic Facade Kiefer Technic Showroom

Bad Gleichenberg, Austria


Dynamic Interior Design

Yuko Shibata is the Japanese designer behind this modest-but-effective interior design

intervention. The use of two very simple non-structural wall elements turns a small apartment into a superb multi-functional set of living, working and sleeping areas.


Dynamic Interior Design


Dynamic Furniture Torque Desk by I M Lab


Dynamic Furniture Living room table | Yanko Design


Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers Static/Traditional Dynamic Santiago Calatrava, 2005


One of the latest design trends that seems to have found appeal among some architects is a towering skyscraper that twists its way up to the top. Possibly the first, modern, twisted skyscraper constructed was the Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. It is designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005.

Twisted / Dancing Skyscrapers

After the successful

completion of the Turning

Torso, designers started

proposing similar audacious

structures elsewhere. Many

projects got shelved, others

were passed and built, and

a handful of them are

currently under construction.


Dynamic Revolution Dr. David Fisher’s Revolution, 2008


Dynamic Revolution Dr. David Fisher’s Revolution

Dr. David Fishers is an Italian Architect

based in Florence owning a design firm called “Infinity Design”. Honors at Faculty of Architecture in Florence University. Taught as faculty in the same and in

structural engineering department. Awarded PhD Honoris causa by the Prodeo Institute at Columbia University (NY). Not a traditional architect as he worked mainly in the field of

construction redefining the technical and technological extremes of building. Involved in restoration of ancient buildings.

Pioneer in the field of prefabrication and dynamic buildings.


Dynamic Revolution The Fourth Dimension !

The greatest innovation, which characterizes David Fisher’s tower of endless shapes is the introduction of the fourth dimension, Time, as an essential part of the building philosophy. This concept brings first of all a dynamic use of space: not only does the Rotating Tower adjust to its surroundings, it can also comply with its tenants’ needs and whims.

Dynamic/Rotating towers and skyscrapers, allow tenants to select their favorite view at any moment, following the sun or letting the apartment rotate slowly to enjoy the view. This means that the Tower's external shape and profile change constantly, projecting a new perception of architecture: what was motionless has become dynamic.


Dynamic Revolution The Fourth Dimension !

What drove David Fisher towards Dynamic Architecture is the determination to develop new space solutions, and at the same time better living conditions. In simple words, it is easy to see that not much has happened since the Egyptians built the Pyramids: Architecture is still based on the laws of static.

David Fisher describe his buildings as "designed by time, shaped by life".

Dynamic Architecture is not related only to style and design, it involves a completely new approach to construction: Buildings are endowed with movement and are able to change their shape over time.

For all these reasons, David Fisher thinks and designs his buildings with four dimensions, not only

height, width and depth, but also “Time”.


The Rotating Tower brings three main futuristic aspects, three revolutions:

1. The shape of the building changes continuously: Buildings as Part of the

Environment, adjusting to the sun and the wind, to the view and to our momentary requirements. Each floor, in fact, can rotate separately, changing every second the shape of the building.

The Rotating Skyscraper takes on shapes

imposed by time and life, never appearing the same in any two given moments. It is the first building to have four dimensions: Designed by TIME,

shaped by LIFE.

Dynamic Revolution


Dynamic Revolution

2. The method of construction (Prefabrication) It

is in fact the first building produced in a

factory, giving construction a new industrial

approach.

The entire building, aside from the concrete

core, is made of prefabricated units which

arrive to the construction site completely

finished, including flooring, water piping, air

conditioning and all finishes. These units, made

of steel, aluminium, carbon fiber and other

high quality modern materials, are installed

“mechanically” on site.

The building, made of single separate floors, is

structurally sound and flexible at the same

time, being of very high seismic resistance.


Dynamic Revolution

3. The combining technology and

luxury with environment:

The skyscraper's wind turbines,

positioned horizontally between

each floor, and solar ink on its

many roofs will produce energy

making the tower the first self-

powered building.

Thus the Rotating Tower, a unique

architectural solution, becomes

also a "power station" producing

green energy for the city.


Dynamic Towers Advantages

1. Quality control: Industrialization enables much stricter and more reliable quality control procedures.

2. Safety: On-site workers will operate in a functional and organized process and the off-site workers in a comfortable environment, because of smart and well

organized assembly procedures.

3. Tailor-made solutions: Owners will be able to customize their apartments according to their desire and avoiding knocking down walls after they receive the

key of their apartment.

4. Fast construction: An 80-story skyscraper can be built in 22 months. Pre-assembly in a factory generates significant gains in efficiency and productivity.

5. Cost savings: Of site work and Industrialization generates economies of scale and experience effects that significantly lower cost of construction.



6. Resource optimization: Streamlined industrial processes ensure a proper planning of needed resources.

7. Green "Construction Site": No more noise, debris, and waste material, reduction in energy consumption, traffic, and pollution.

8. Extended building lifespan: Industrialization brings cutting edge materials and technologies to construction, extending the products’ lifespan.

9. Low energy requirements: The increased efficiency arising from industrialization leads to significantly lower energy requirements.


Eco-Friendly Dynamic Towers

The Dynamic Tower, the

world's first building in

motion, takes the concept

of environmental buildings

to the next level, generating

electricity for itself, making it

the first skyscraper designed

to be entirely powered by

wind and sun.



The Dynamic Tower is an innovative

green building. With wind turbines fitted horizontally between each rotating floor, the 80-story building will have up to 79 wind

turbine systems, making it a truly green power plant. While traditional vertical wind turbines have environmental and social effects, including the need for roads to build and maintain them, in addition to the

noise and the obstruction of views, the Dynamic Tower's wind turbines are practically invisible and extremely quiet due to their special shape and the carbon fiber material of which

they are composed.



Photovoltaic ink is to be placed on each rotating floor to produce solar energy. With approximately 20% of

each roof exposed to the sun and light, a building with 80 roofs provides the roofing space of more than 10 similar size buildings.

In addition, natural and recyclable materials including stone, marble, glass and wood are intended for the interior finishing. Further improving the energy efficiency of the Dynamic Tower, insulated glass

and structural insulating panels are employed. During construction of the green tower, energy use is drastically reduced due to the prefabrication of the building in a factory.


Sustainable Dynamic Towers

Dynamic buildings are a result of a decade-long experience in the research of innovative building

components, capable of interacting with climate conditions and regulating energy flows through the building surface. The “intelligent” building is thus one whose external

components become elements of thermal self-regulation, ensuring indoor comfort while reducing energy

consumption.


The Rotating Tower of Dubai



80 floors, 420 meters tall.

First 20 floors will be Offices.

Floors 21 to 35 will be a Luxury hotel,

Floors 36 to 70 will be Apartments.

While the top 10 floors will be luxury Villas.

Apartment sizes range from 124 sq.m to villa of size 1200 sq.m

It will be the first building in the World to be entirely constructed from

factory made prefabricated parts.

These parts are being manufactured in a factory in Altamura, Italy.

It will require just 600 people in the assembly facility and 80 technicians

on the site instead of min. 2000 workers for a similar building.

the consturction will complete by the end of this year.


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Gaza own perspective on

Gaza city, one of the Palestinian cities and one of the most densely populated

places in the world. It has a long history as it was a cradle of many civilizations,

further it is exposed to many wars and crises since 1948 till now. In the last five years

(2009-2014), Gaza exposed three barbarian wars with massive loss of human life

and huge systematic destruction of homes.

These events caused sequential economic crises, negatively impacted in shaping

the urban fabric, and changed the architectural features in Gaza. Therefore, it is

difficult to find any application of dynamic architecture with its modern and

developed concept.

But this video will show you a new perspective on dynamic architecture in Gaza !!

Dynamic Architecture


Static Urban Fabric

Gaza has a static-Dynamic urban Form which can be perceived visually,

and is clearly presented:

- The fields in between buildings.

- Empty and forlorn.

- The dynamic of surrounding space.

- Buildings Weight and height.

- Buildings colors and textures.

- The street as figure.

- Crossing and squares.

- City Sky-line.

- Mobility and dynamic life.

- Dynamic form and elevation of some buildings.

With dynamic form


The fields in between buildings


Empty and forlorn


The dynamic of surrounding space


Buildings Weight and Height


Buildings Colors and textures


The street as figure Crossing and squares


City Sky-line


Mobility and Dynamic Life


Static-Dynamic Form & Elevation Arcmed Hotel, Gaza


Gaza Dynamic Buildings/Towers ! Epic / Catastrophic Motion

In June 2014, Gaza has been excluded from the fourth

dimension, where the boundaries of time and place

are broken with the massive Israeli-bombardment in

the whole Gaza Strip all the time. And the buildings

were moving down, or simply it is turned upside down in seconds!


Gaza’s First Dynamic Space Al-Dolphin Floating Restaurant

Not innovative, not perfect, but it gives you an opportunity to have a meal or a drink

while you enjoy the scene of Gaza city sky-line on one side and the scene of sunset

on the other side!!

- It’s opened just in summer, one day per week . - It is NOT a unique design. - Absence of safty factors. - Small Functional area which affects the whole services. - Low quality furniture with bad arrangement.

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Gaza’s First Floating restaurant Al-Dolphin Restaurant


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