The Round House

The Round House in Wilton, Connecticut is on the market for $1.75 million. Designed by the renowned architect Richard T. Foster assisted by Philip Johnson in 1967, this home was fully renovated in 2005. Walled in glass, this circular house can rotate 360 degrees, capturing beautiful landscaping and water views. This place is very space age; it looks like a landing spaceship to me. It seems impossible that the tiny base supports the entire home, but apparently it works.

Seattle Space Needle

The first revolving restaurant built in the United States was built by John
Graham, a Seattle architect and acolyte of Buckminster Fuller. La Ronde
(1961) was on the top of the tallest office building at the time, Ala Moana
Shopping Center in Honolulu. The72-foot wide restaurant was cantilevered
from a thirty-eight foot diameter concrete core which contained stairwells,
elevators, the kitchen and other facilities for the restaurant.64 Operated by a
three horse power motor, the structure made a 360-degree turn every hour. In
the following year, Graham repeated the revolving restaurant concept at the
Seattle Space Needle for the 1962 World Fair.


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Rolling Bridge

This ingenious little pedestrian bridge was designed by Heatherwick Studio to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin in London. The Rolling Bridge provides an access route for workers and residents, yet needed to be able to open for the boat that is moored in the inlet. Instead of using the typical approach of a rigid element that simply lifts and lowers, Heatherwick wanted the bridge’s movement to be extraordinary. Rolling Bridge, then, is formed by eight segments which slowly uncurl to span the inlet, and then slowly curl up to form a circular sculpture while the boat passes through.

Responsive Skins

The workshop asks how material behavior can be introduced into architectural design and which consequences this has on design. The workshop focused on the behavior of material in larger arrays and how one can design and steer these.

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