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Rotating Houses: living beyond the square

Apr 18th, 2006 12:22pm
HOUSE #1:
rotating house
The Rotating House is 24-metre diameter octagon with a 3-metre, with exterior walls of mostly glass and steel and a 360-degree verandah/porch built in Oz (Australia). The computer-controlled 360° rotation occurs around a central core of plumbing and electricals. What is ...

Who knew? Afghanistan IS a fine place.

Nov 30th, 2005 1:00am
Bamiyan valley, AfghanistanBamiyan valley, Afghanistan
(via Oriental Architecture)

Teapot temples of Malaysia demolished.

Aug 3rd, 2005 1:00am
Teapot Temples
Talk about genteel heresy! Think the queen of England and 4 o'clock teatime had anything to do with it? The odd temples of a teapot-worshipping religious sect in Malaysia have been destroyed by authorities. The group's leader, Ayah Pin, is on the lam; his wives have been arrested, and his devotees are distraught. They had been on ...

Cool building materials.

May 17th, 2005 1:00am
Cool new building product: LiTraCon; the Light-transmitting concrete. A new concrete composite with embedded optical fibers that allow light to pass through it, resulting in translucent blocks or walls. Created and patented by twenty-seven year old Hungarian Áron Losonczi. LiTraCon litracon2.jpg BioPaver Biopaver by Joseph Hagerman; a precast permeable paving ...

Round is always in.

Aug 7th, 2003 1:00am
Another reason why one must live in a round house:
Round kitchen

Alternative Housing: Domes

Aug 6th, 2003 3:00am
Domes save energy because there is less surface area per square foot to heat or cool compared to the square or rectangular home. It also allows wind to blow around it rather than into it. Variations: geodesic domes & monolithic domes. Geodesic domes, sold mostly in kit form, are formed by joining pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons together. These dome are usually framed in wood and the outside is covered by ...

Curvilinear architecture; anybody?

2:00am
Round House
Between Amazon & Google, there is next to no information on curvilinear architecture, curved/round buildings, or architecture in the round.  Noted source exceptions: Roger Dean and the monolithic dome sites.

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