MOVEABLE rooms - all at the push of a button

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'We're moving around the block': The seven-storey house with the ultimate space-saving feature - MOVEABLE rooms - all at the push of a button


19 August 2014

By ALEX FINNIS

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It looks like we might have found the future of housing - and that future is in Iran, where architects have designed an incredible seven-storey home with moveable rooms. The Sharifi-Ha house in Tehran is already pretty impressive - it features a gym and a swimming pool, but what makes it extraordinary is how its outer rooms can rotate, creating space and also making it adaptable to the seasons.

- At just a touch of a button, three of the outer rooms - the breakfast room, the guest room and the office - can rotate out to overhand the street, letting light in and creating terrace space. Each of the three rooms, which resemble wooden boxes from the outside, is on its own rotating base. During the cold winters they can close up, keeping the house warm, while during the hot summer months, opening them will ventilate the house. Each of the three rooms, which resemble wooden boxes from the outside, is on its own rotating base. During the cold winters they can close up, keeping the house warm, while during the hot summer months, opening them will ventilate the house.

- 'Depending on whether there is a guest or not, the guest room - on the second floor - can be reconfigured for different purposes. 'Similarly home offices and breakfast rooms can change the formality of their appearance according to their residents' desires. 'There is always the possibility of having different seasonal or lighting scenarios because of this style.' The house is inspired by the traditional Iranian home, which has both a summer and winter living room to reflect the stark difference in the seasons' temperatures.

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