A rotating house for Gungahlin

great, won’t need to go out the back – out the back can come to you! will the soalr panels have auto correcting rotation too, or will there simply be a wind turnbine to annoy the neighbours?

i wonder if the garage will have a turntable in it to allow for easy egress when you drive the lexus in front ways…

Canberra: The Nation’s Capital for Rotating Restaurants and Houses. Will look super on the number plates once the Centenary plates run out.

On piping, you can clearly see the trench to the pivot point on the aerial photo.
If you can afford the extra costs and particularly the larger block, then it would be fun. For many though, it would be more important to put available funds into improved design and build quality, plus those easily dropped add-ons like PV, greywater, irrigation, water sensitive landscaping design.

Disappointing photo on the Clean Energy Futures website of the other house—massive house, black concrete tiled roof, no eaves or shading over windows on any sides. Sticking a big PV array on your roof doesn’t make a sustainable house. Doesn’t matter how good your window design, if summer sun falls on the glass as a result of poor shading design, you will get overheating inside.

rosscoact said :

what the hell?

like i said before, this design is nothing new.

The benefit is, certain rooms chase (or hide) from the sun, meaning you get efficient heating/cooling all year round.

If it breaks… it just stays still. You can still live in the house.

I imagine this is what it was like when they invented the comb.

what the hell?
why on earth?
it will never work!
my fingers work just as well.
what happens when it breaks?
No good will come of this, mark my words
this is the devil’s work

bearlikesbeer said :

I’m guessing all the plumbing and electrical wiring leads are diverted back to the centre of the house and down through a central shaft. That’s how it works in similar rotating houses. The pipes and wiring are enclosed in flexible ducts that have been arranged to allow for the rotation of the house. The house only travels one and a half revolutions before it travels back in the opposite direction. This keeps the movement of the plumbing and wiring to a minimum.

yep, that’s what they did on grand designs.

I’m guessing all the plumbing and electrical wiring leads are diverted back to the centre of the house and down through a central shaft. That’s how it works in similar rotating houses. The pipes and wiring are enclosed in flexible ducts that have been arranged to allow for the rotation of the house. The house only travels one and a half revolutions before it travels back in the opposite direction. This keeps the movement of the plumbing and wiring to a minimum.

There are ways to make power and water travel through rotating components, but WHY?? You go to work in the morning and then come home at night to find your front door has disappeared. Going out to hang up the laundry you realize the clothesline is around the other side. Those motors won’t be off the shelf products and will require maintenance, so one day – buzz, pop, zap zap zap….$160 callout, $2000 repair bill “thank you very much”. Imagine the kids leaving their bikes leaning against the house and then finding they have been crushed against the car your visitors just parked a little too close. Landscaping will be a nightmare. Glad it’s not my house.

How does the plumbing/electricity work if it all moves? Surely at least the plumbing needs a permanent pipe out?

It probably only “rotates” like a sunflower (girasole) – part of the way round – and there would be flexible pipe options.

I can see the advertising when this house gets sold:

“Sit on this and rotate”

Estimating that the house maybe 20 metres wide thats about 10cm/s a second at the edge. That would easily be enough to knock things over.