Rotating Homes

You might call it rotating, a heliotrope, or a carousel house but the price of it is to follow the sun and enjoy the cool of the day in summer and the warmth of the day in winter. A wonderful idea and concept for the dreamers out there.

Everingham Rotating House-Take a spin in the house down under. Rotate a full 360 degrees and study this fascinating idea for a house.AU Gizmag Article

Lets Go around again-Find a property-The house looks typical but sits on ball bearings the size of golf balls and follows the sun.

Going Down Under in White Cliff-He bought some property. He dug. He crafted. He polished and smoothed and invited guests to come by. And when he'd dug all he could — well, then Leon Hornby dug some more.

Heliotrope House-Built by German Architect Rolf Disch, this solar powered home provides 5 times what it uses and is a rotating home.

International Real Estate Digest-Over one hundred specialty parts that will allow a house to rotate are being put into place on Mt. Helix in San Diego as retirees Al and Janet Johnstone build their 'Rotating Home.'

Lighthouse Rotating Homes-Located in Auckland, N.Z. the homes come in six designs and are available for residential or commercial development.

Maisons Labbe-Franch architect who designs homes that turn on command. Treehugger article on rotating homes.

New buildings to dance in the wind-Live Science-A series of rotating buildings based on Dynamic Architecture will be built around the world, starting in Dubai, U.A.E.

Popular Science-A somewhat large article found on Google archives referring to the House of Spin. Take a look at this 1991 article by searching under the name David Graham.

Revolutionary Domes-Article from Architecture Week on companies like ‘former’ Sunspace and a buyer whose home rotates 300 degrees. Blisstree Article on Sunspace home.

Revolving Architecture-Read this short Google book about buildings that rotate, swivel and pivot by Chad Randl

Revolving house has 360 degree view-Who was Francois Massau? A Belgian who built a number of revolving homes 50 years ago and died in 2002 unknown and impoverished.

Rotating Home-A RotatingHome can be built in any size or shape in which all or part of the home rotates. A RotatingHome can also be multi-level, with the ability of all or any of the stories to rotate.

Rotating House dodges wrecking ball-designed by Dutch immigrant who wanted to please his wife who loved the sun. Australian and built in 1958.

Rotor House-Design Boom-Luigi Colani working with Hanse-Haus-de designed this very cool home that is small, revolves at center and is the dreamers delight.

 

link checked Oct 28 2009

Dubai's twirling tower

Dubai’s Whirling Towers-Twirling upon a central core you can have a home that spins and spins and spins without end. Take a wild ride and purchase a condo for just over half a million. Comes online in 2011. Construction in question?, Article from Specifier of Australia gives more inside information on the Dubai’s towers.

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Harmonique Domespace Rotate versus non-rotate. You can set your watch by the rotation of this dome home. Put this on your cool list for unusual homes. Pictures, More from decojournal

Francois Massau revolving house

A Builder’s 360° Vision Didn’t Move His Neighbors-NYT-Have revolving homes become fashionable? What do we call the style by Sunflower, Bioclimatic architecture or the neat word heliotrope which means to follow the sun across the sky. Another version.

Wheel of Dubai Royal Haskoning Architecten

Wheel of Dubai-Think you’ve seen it all? This wheel exists as a wondrous concept of the future. It has a rotation cycle of 30 minutes. Very cool. From Royal Haskoning Architecten. Netherlands