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A Rotating House Concept That Makes Absolutely No Sense
We've seen round houses before, and a house that rotates. Those designs had some purposefulness to their dispositions, whether or not you consider them successful. But here we've got a house that is both round and that rotates, and the thinking behind it makes absolutely no sense.
The Micro House with Rotatable Mechanism concept, by Taiwanese architecture firm Supra Simplicities, depicts a cylindrical tower with a jutting rectilinear projection.
So the idea is, aside from the rectilinear projection, the house is essentially a Lazy Susan divided into thirds—allowing you to only access one space at a time. The three spaces are a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom, and there is no way to pass from one space to the other. Instead you must step off of the turntable, and wait for the house's motor to rotate the desired space into position.
One of the benefits of a round house is that you have windows on all sides. This design, however, leaves all of the rooms windowless; only the fixed part of the house has glass.
Add to that the construction costs of building a circular steel frame, the motor, and whatever the maintenance costs would be.
The thinking behind the project:
"In an effort to optimize the living quality, this micro-house project aims to re-interpret the meaning of household living via condensing all kinds of programs into 3 fundamental scenes(or rooms), sleeping(bedroom), dining (kitchen & dining place) and washing(shower & toilet), which are compactly encapsulated on a revolving-stage mechanism for transition from one to another."
The design offers zero functional benefit for the resident, adds cost and complexity and removes natural light. I just don't get it.
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I'm going to guess that this is not a "real" concept so much as it is a thing to get attention on social media. The more you think about it the less sense it makes. Since the sense starts at zero, we're deep in negative sense territory really fast...
Imagine: it's the middle of the night, and you wake up needing the bathroom, fast. And you have a "friend" over for the night.
The concept is interesting and very much like a traditional Japanese home where a single room can serve multiple functions with folding futons or compact furniture. If you think about it, who really cooks, showers and sleeps at the same time?
It is also a concept that industrial designer Luigi Colani did many years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrK_ME5yAcU