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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Nothing to it, really. If you keep the house spinning fast enough.
Continuous revolution would be the real challenge.
Rotating restaurants-in-the-sky seem to have the technology, though.
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.
After watching the video, the place is really cool and all the space was well utilized........
Ah, old poetry from Jimmy Buffet... Thanks, Parrothead!
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.
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.
You may be correct, I am from California so actually have no frame of reference except those who pitch the dome home.
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?
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