The rotating apartment building where everyone lives in the penthouse.
An industrial designer has come up with a new idea for a building with rotating apartments that offer constantly changing views of the city around
A designer has developed a futuristic concept that solves the issue of housing inequality.
Taiwanese industrial designer Shin Kuo came up with an idea of a spinning apartment building for his thesis project at the San Francisco Academy of Art University, which he titled Turn to the Future.
The result was a building where each unit moves down a roller-coaster style track that wraps about a 27 story frame - offering ever-changing 360 degree views of the city around.
The building moves on a 'pre-determined timeline' and once a unit reaches the bottom floor, it is pulled back to the top again by a each move the doors to the apartments will be locked and gas, electric and water lines detach before automatically reattaching at the next destination port.
The apartments are positioned on a track similar to a roller coaster and move on a 'pre-determined schedule'.Once an apartment reaches the bottom, it is pulled back to the top of the building
Kuo said that he thought up the ideacrane system.
In order to ensure safety, before as a solution to the problem of wealthy residents always getting the best view in high-rise buildings
Designer Shin Kuo said he thought up the idea as a solution to the problem of price differences between apartment units at the top of buildings (with better views) and those at the bottom.
'According to my research, urbanization has become a big trend in the world. Because of that, buildings will become higher and higher, and more and more people who live in the lower floors of buildings will get their view blocked.
'Based on the results from both the Asian and the American market research, there is a [difference] in sales or rental prices between the lower floor units and higher floor units in the same building. In the future, all the top floors of buildings will be owned by people with very high incomes and the middle to lower income people will only have a limited view from their living spaces,' Kuo wrote.
A designer has developed a futuristic concept that solves the issue of housing inequality.
Taiwanese industrial designer Shin Kuo came up with an idea of a spinning apartment building for his thesis project at the San Francisco Academy of Art University, which he titled Turn to the Future.
The result was a building where each unit moves down a roller-coaster style track that wraps about a 27 story frame - offering ever-changing 360 degree views of the city around.
The building moves on a 'pre-determined timeline' and once a unit reaches the bottom floor, it is pulled back to the top again by a each move the doors to the apartments will be locked and gas, electric and water lines detach before automatically reattaching at the next destination port.
Kuo said that he thought up the ideacrane system.
In order to ensure safety, before as a solution to the problem of wealthy residents always getting the best view in high-rise buildings
'According to my research, urbanization has become a big trend in the world. Because of that, buildings will become higher and higher, and more and more people who live in the lower floors of buildings will get their view blocked.
'Based on the results from both the Asian and the American market research, there is a [difference] in sales or rental prices between the lower floor units and higher floor units in the same building. In the future, all the top floors of buildings will be owned by people with very high incomes and the middle to lower income people will only have a limited view from their living spaces,' Kuo wrote.
