Super amazing rotating house open for inspection this weekend

Firstly, the verby of Girsasole does sound mildly reflexive (though the actual infinitive form is girarsi) and maybe it’s OK in some Italian dialect.

Secondly, the Allhomes listing is worth a look. Apparently there is one aspect from the site that looks over parkland that is claimed to never to be built over, although the rest is probably McManch and Colorbond fence.

Thirdly, looking at the details of the listing reveals that the house rotator has three speeds. That’s it. While I assume one is anti-crease, the question that comes to mind is that if you’re going to build this rotating house, surely you’d include a fancy-ish control system?

With a microcontroller, a variable frequency drive, some grey code and a length of stout twine, one could fashion a system with options to continually track the sun, or move to various points during the day, or to a specific position on command.

DrKoresh said :

Girasole does sound like some kind of personal hygiene product, gotta say.

Or a swear word as in “pass me the rectinol you girasole”….

Girasole does sound like some kind of personal hygiene product, gotta say.

JC said :

grunge_hippy said :

yeah but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s in gungahlin….

EXACTLY and no offence to those from Gungahlin either. I mean to say what is the point of a house like this in the suburbs, any subrubs? I saw a TV show a while back where they had a similar rotating house on a property somewhere up the NSW North Coast. That made perfect sense, but the burbs, common, what a waste of time effort and bloody money.

Its a nice proof of concept thing but the novelty would wear off big time I think.

grunge_hippy said :

yeah but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s in gungahlin….

EXACTLY and no offence to those from Gungahlin either. I mean to say what is the point of a house like this in the suburbs, any subrubs? I saw a TV show a while back where they had a similar rotating house on a property somewhere up the NSW North Coast. That made perfect sense, but the burbs, common, what a waste of time effort and bloody money.

grunge_hippy said :

yeah but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s in gungahlin….

Haha true! No matter where you point that house, you’re still overlooking a bunch of bogannaires camped out in McMansions on teeny tiny blocks.

Does girasole have a gasolier?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasolier

I’ve been playing too much scrabble……

Turbocharge it.

grunge_hippy said :

yeah but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s in gungahlin….

If you didn’t like it, you could just turn it round to point in the opposite direction.

poetix said :

I’d be more impressed if it played itself like a vinyl record.

If only it were in Mitchell or Fyshwick, the song could be “The House of the Rising Sun”