Industrial Designer Shin Kuo Proposes a Residential Tower with Moving Units

Imagine waking up to a new view each morning without ever leaving your apartment. As it turns out, this may be a possibility. In Turn to the Future, a proposed 27-story residential tower by Taiwanese industrial designer Shin Kuo, apartments would be mounted on a track system that spirals each unit down the building then lifts it back to the top again via a crane system in the tower’s core. The cycle would be completed over a predetermined length of time then repeated.

Residents of Turn to the Future would experience their building and its surroundings in a unique way, waking up each day to a new view and to light entering their home at a different angle. Though there are no immediate plans to build this conceptual piece, Kuo says he would use 3-D printing to construct the units. The tower would be made of aluminum, steel, smart glass, solar panels, carbon fiber, bendable concrete, and even artificial bone. The track system, he says, would work similar to that of a roller coaster, relying on infrared sensors and braking systems. Kuo’s next step is to find experts and investors to help him develop the plan further.

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