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A dome home that will have you spinning
pressherald.com ^ | 3 Jan 2012 | Erika Riggs, Zillow

Posted on 01/04/2012 4:03:06 PM PST by smokingfrog

Normally, when someone asks for the remote, it’s because they want to undertake some serious TV channel surfing. But in one unique home located just 90 minutes north of New York City, playing with the remote control will set the entire wooden house spinning on its axis.

This dome home was, in fact, built on an electronically-controlled axle. So with a push of a button, the 3,000-square-foot New Paltz home for sale can rotate 360 degrees. In five orbital minutes, the house, which is on the market for $1.2 million, will turn one full rotation.

The owners of this circular domicile aren’t constantly on the spin cycle. The feature is used to take advantage of the sun for the home’s solar energy needs. Each season, the home is rotated for maximum efficiency, explained listing agent Anne Rajs.

While the home looks similar to geodesic dome homes, it was built using a kit from France called Domespace and is the only structure like it that has been constructed in the U.S.

“It does look like a space ship,” said Rajs, “But it’s an amazing home. It’s the coolest home I’ve ever seen.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: domespace; realestate
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To: goseminoles
How do you hang a picture? Kind of like a -frames...

Nothing to it, really. If you keep the house spinning fast enough.

41 posted on 01/04/2012 5:41:19 PM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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To: Lazamataz
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42 posted on 01/04/2012 5:43:35 PM PST by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Continuous revolution would be the real challenge.

Rotating restaurants-in-the-sky seem to have the technology, though.


43 posted on 01/04/2012 5:45:16 PM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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To: Lazamataz
BTW when did you get your own parking lot?

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44 posted on 01/04/2012 5:46:21 PM PST by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: editor-surveyor
Rotating plumbing and electrical fittings are not particularly unusual.

The great trick is to get them all concentric about the same axis--water, wastewater, power, gas, maybe telecom.

Telecom could I guess be left out by using wifi on the ground under the house or somewhere else nearby.

45 posted on 01/04/2012 5:50:47 PM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Inefficient and a waste of space

After watching the video, the place is really cool and all the space was well utilized........

46 posted on 01/04/2012 6:00:51 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Naugahyde is no longer available due to the Naugas being hunted to extinction.....)
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To: Rebelbase
He left all of his money
To Spooner his old hound
Growing old on steak and bacon
In a doghouse ten feet round

Ah, old poetry from Jimmy Buffet... Thanks, Parrothead!

47 posted on 01/04/2012 6:38:55 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: svcw

Tornados destroy structures by reducing the atmospheric pressure outside, thus the air inside expanding outward explodes the house. Doesn’t matter what its shape is.


48 posted on 01/04/2012 7:18:52 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Erasmus

Wastewater flows into a closed concentric channel, and electric requires only the mains to flow through slip rings that wrap around the water main, which needs a very conventional lip seal.


49 posted on 01/04/2012 7:37:22 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

You may be correct, I am from California so actually have no frame of reference except those who pitch the dome home.


50 posted on 01/04/2012 8:10:31 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: laz
LOL; the "Jetson's" refashioned. . .

Don't know about a 'rolling house'; but walking, running; inside a ball; might be safest option to outdoor exercising or just getting to store; someday - soon. . .

A 'security ball', perhaps?

Whatever; perhaps, in some fashion; we will all be, "rollin; rollin". ..could make running on the beach interesting. Why should hampsters have all the fun?

51 posted on 01/08/2012 4:03:36 AM PST by cricket (/get the 'Occupiers' out of our White House!/ vote Newt 'in'. . .and it is NOT just the economy!)
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