A rotating home sounds seriously cool, especially when it has some enormous solar panels on its roof and it’s juiced up by the sun. Architect Ralph Disch came up with this one, rotating around to make sure it catches every ray of the sun. Well, he could’ve simply had the solar panels up above to rotate, instead of having the whole home do so, but then again, that’s his architectural creativity! The sun is exploited well enough to allow daylight into the homes triple-pane windows and heat up its solar thermal pipes, besides reflecting on its roof-mounted solar array. This one generates five times the energy it requires! Known as the Helitrope, the home is pole-mounted and rotates 180 degrees throughout the day. It’s equipped with 6.6 kWh solar panels that generate all that energy.

Home sweet home indeed!

[Inhabitat]