TURN ON
by Jill Fehrenbacher, 06/14/05
In designing this rotating room, Austrian architecture firm AllesWirdGut claim to have found inspiration in the gravity chamber of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think secretly they also may have been influence by a certain furry rodent. You gotta admit this looks like a human-sized hamster wheel.
TurnOn was one of the projects featured in Architectural Record’s 2005 Young Architect’s Awards. The design is a cylindrical living room which incorporates multiple functions of the home. Different circular modules are attached together to create the wheel-like space that can be turned (literally) to alter its function. “Just like customizing a car, the buyer can customize and accessorize to their own tastes and price range. Colors can be chosen, accessories such as flat-screen monitors could be added,” says Architect Herwig Spiegl, “and the modules could be arranged in infinite combinations.”
Clever idea. It would be really cool to see this concept as a much larger room. Although it would probably take more than one person to turn it, think of the possibilities! I imagine this could be really useful in transportation design as well. This little room would make a fabulous modular sleeping car on an overnight train.
Via Core 77 via Life Without Buildings
ooh…a train car made of these would be amazing! i didn’t think about that.
great site!