Taking Turns: One of the World's Only Rotating Houses Hits the Market

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Because houses that stay still are just so boring, here's the D'Angelo House, which is "one of only a handful of homes in the world that rotate electrically," according to the listing. That's right: homes that move may be a dime a dozen, but homes that rotate are another creature entirely. Anyway, the 857-square-foot home outside Palm Springs, now asking $279K, was built in 1963 by businessman Floyd D'Angelo, who enlisted an engineer pal to, you know, make sure the structure did the Hokey Pokey. Even The Beatles were enchanted—they partied here in 1965. The current owner switched a solar-powered motor for a new one, and now it takes a painfully slow 15 seconds for the place to rotate 130 degrees—perhaps someone will juice it up further so it's a little more, say, fun? Curbed LA has a closer look.

· Desert's Rotating D'Angelo House Hits the Market For $279K [Curbed LA]

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Gravitywire: Architects Build Rotating Zero-Gravity Room Here on Earth

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Photo via Architizer

The fact that furniture is firmly planted on the ground—or the ground is indeed the ground—is apparently something too often taken for granted. Hence, the guys of Chicago-based architecture/design firm Bureau Spectacular have just created (what we're assuming is) the world's first zero-gravity simulation room in a Los Angeles backyard. Called Phalanstery Module, the circular wooden structure rotates so that a different surface becomes usable every 15 minutes, thus proving true the idea that "in zero-gravity, one can rotate in architecture and treat all surfaces as plans—i.e., walls, ceilings and floors. Without gravity, all surfaces can be occupied. The distinctions between orthographic drawings become obsolete." Architizer has time-release photos that document how the module changes over the course of an hour. Funny random fact: if two people are inside the room at once, they'll collide ever 7.5 seconds.
· In an LA Backyard, a Zero-Gravity Dirigible [Architizer via Gizmodo]
· Bureau Spectacular [official site]

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