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The default configuration of this building is a cube nine metres on a side in larger, level grounds. Within the edifice are hinged, swivelling or rollable components such as walls, floors and staircases, and shuttered windows, sliding and conventional door sections of the walls and so forth, which can
be moved around to create the likes of mezzanines, atria, internal and external staircases, doors, trapdoors, ladders, different roof shapes and the like. Just a building which can be arranged in various different ways and then locked and unlocked for stability and safety. It's also telescopic, so it can have one, two or three floors, and has pull-out bits for extensions and outhouses, conservatories, sheds etc.
Video from the 1960s.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=4fro_xPdj5E
[doctorremulac3, Aug 29 2025]
This house ...
https://historiceng.../list-entry/1449048
... has sliding walls inside (but doesn't go so far as to make the external walls moveable). [pertinax, Aug 30 2025]
[link]
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I know there are kit houses that unfold but not aware of any one with various configurations available with a single model like this. |
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So you've taken the concept of a Murphy bed and applied it to the whole house? I do hope Murphy's Law doesn't make an appearance. |
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This needs an AI created 50s style "Homes Of Tomorrow" video complete with poodle skirt wearing moms and a pipe smoking dad, daughter with a dollhouse and son with a slingshot in his back pocket. |
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50s background music too. |
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See link: not quite baked, but they were definitely heading in this direction. (Unfortunately, I can't find any photos of the interior which show this feature in action). |
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... but if you click through to the details, they include "Sleeping is accommodated on the lower level where a series of sliding walls gives flexibility: depending on the number of visitors, rooms can be opened up or enclosed as required, and each has a glazed door to the outside." |
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If the house were Unfoldable it would by definition not be possible to fold it. This idea appears to be describing a Foldable House. |
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You seem to have overlooked the invisible right-parenthesis after the 'd' of 'unfoldable', [pocmloc]. |
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You shouldn't feel bad - not many printers have the right kind of invisible ink for it. |
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