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RotaHaus

 I got sick of looking at it, so...
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Houses present the same facade to the world, week after week, month after month, year after year.

New RotaHaus sits on a massive turntable (which doubles as an earthquake protection device). It also carries all essential services to and from the house. Sealed collars prevent plumbing mishaps.

When you get tired of the Tudor-style appearance of your house, just spin it through 90 deg, to present the Saturnian Terraformer Dome, or the beach bungalow, or 180 deg to show off the minimalist glass-and-steel Ludwig Mies van der Rohe version, or whatever turns up.

Colour change is handled with electroreactive ink compounds embedded in the surfaces of the blocks.

Hundreds of designs to choose from, with a computerised controller to rotate and relocate blocks and panels on the facade. Set to RANDOM it may, over the course of an hour,transform from a gingerbread house to an Octopus's Garden, to a VW Beetle in green paisley.

Your Feng Shui-obsessed neighbours will either love you, or hate you.

—UnaBubba, Mar 31 2003

Rubik's Cube House http://www.halfbake..._27s_20cube_20house
Almost what [jutta] wants. 4.3x10^19 possible views. [Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Gordon Matta-Clark's Splitting http://freespace.vi...holloway/split.html
Could you do this as well? [pottedstu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Rotating house nears completion http://www.thesandi...1771426/detail.html
[hippo, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

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       I did once see a house featured on "Tomorow's World" or somesuch, which swiveled on its base to follow the sun - presumably the architect thought this a better solution to screen glare than getting up every ten minutes and drawing the curtain a little further closed each time...
—friendlyfire, Mar 31 2003
   

       It's surely easier than replacing the walls?
—UnaBubba, Mar 31 2003
   

       Could you set it to slow-rotate as well? I'd like to use the basic design for a house that just spins completely once an hour or so, like a revolving restaurant.   

       I foresee some plumbing issues, but I suppose they would be solved in a similar manner to how it's done in the aforementioned restaurants.
—waugsqueke, Mar 31 2003
   

       It should have a 'hangover mode' in which it spins in the opposite direction to the hangover-induced spin.
—hippo, Mar 31 2003
   

       Post mill house?
—bristolz, Mar 31 2003
   

       Hehe.
—bristolz, Mar 31 2003
   

       I agree with you, [jutta]. I can't stop giggling at the concept you propose. However, I couldn't figure out a way to make it work, that would satisfy this crowd. There, try the modified version.   

       As for Feng Shui and its adherents, who cares? It's a superstitious crock, as far as I'm concerned.
—UnaBubba, Mar 31 2003
   

       To implement [jutta]'s proposal, there would have to be a Random House Facade Generator working on the side of the house which is hidden. I envisage lots of flailing robot arms.
—hippo, Apr 01 2003
   

       That's sorta what I had in mind, [hippo].
—UnaBubba, Apr 01 2003
   

       Framing projector and gels? Better yet, LCD gels and a house facade texture map generation system. If you had a camera on the far side you could make the near side "disappear."
—bristolz, Apr 01 2003
   

       Rubik's Cube House? [link]
—Cedar Park, Apr 01 2003
   

       //Being able to rapidly change the elevation of a house is a nifty idea//---I now have this awful vision of 5 hair-netted minority figures slouching on the couch of the home, with a toggle switch, making the house go side to side, forward and back, and the ever so popular "Three wheeled" motion.........
—theThinker, Apr 01 2003
   

       Great minds think somewhat alike, UnaBubba. I was sitting in a friends back garden yesterday evening, shivering in the cold because his giant hedge blocked out the glorious, warm sunlight. I came up with the idea of having the house on a turntable, controlled by clockwork, so that you could have one side facing the sun all day.

It's not quite the same as your concept but similar enough in it's essential element that I've decided just to add this anno to your idea rather than post it seperately. Oh, and hippo's link shows that it's nearly baked anyway. Curses!
—DrBob, Apr 01 2003
   

       Could you be sued for someone being run over by the house as it turns?
—-lines-, Apr 01 2003
   

       some couple re-built their house recently / reversed polarity of front to back, so that the front of the house was on a *better address* - more exclusive road when it came to selling it.
—po, Apr 01 2003
   

       Saw this guy on TV who mounted a detached house on the base of a huge tracked open cast mining digger. Could rotate it as above, but also if the neibours make to much noise he can drive it down to the other end of the street!
—Bronzewing, Apr 01 2004
   
      
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