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DESIGN
WHAT CAN THE DESIGN CONCEPT DO?
Building a climate-friendly, low-carbon society and economy is a big challenge for nowadays generation and future generations, but also a great opportunity for change. Many of these necessary technologies exist already but Rotor Homes merged them together in a challenge to apply them on everyday life.
In order to do so, Rotor Home is designed as a modular and platformbased design around our patent pending Rotor Walls. Listening to the great feedback and response from our clients, who are currently occupying the first Rotor Home, we look forward to developing future sustainable configurations for this platform in the coming years.
At the moment Rotor Home is available in three different Wall configurations:
A Rotor Home equipped with revolving kitchen is widely applicable, is eco-friendly and serves in an innovative way markets like luxurious hotels, restaurants and tiny home owners in search of breath-taking and conscious experiences.
Experience how the Rotor Kitchen transforms your daily necessity such as cooking into an even more meaningful and gratifying ritual. Sharing a meal tradition becomes more valuable and fun. To make sure this can be done in a sustainable way, you will discover integrated solar panels on the rooftop when opening the portal. Experience as a chef how hospitality and outdoor living come together by welcoming guests with the warm gesture of a transformative kitchen opening up onto the terrace for a starlit chef’s table dinner. A Rotor Home with rotatable kitchen can be a great small mobile restaurant for business purposes.
Experience in your second home how tradition, craftsmanship and authenticity meet in the eco-chic Rotor Spa made out of western red cedar. This Scandinavian dream on wheels configuration is not only wood-fired but combines residual heat from the woodfired central heating and solar panels for a breath-taking outdoor spa experience.
A Rotor Home equipped with revolving vertical farm brings the experience of self-sufficiency and modern agriculture to your home. The vertical farm is very practical in use and maintenance as it can be rotated outwards making daily dirty jobs like watering, repotting and harvesting a breeze. As a mobile vertical farm facility, this version of our
Rotor Home can help younger generations rediscover the value of smallscale agriculture in an impactful and fun way! Bring the seasons into your home by teaching children through sowing, growing and harvesting together in the compact hydroponic greenhouses.
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS BEHIND THE CONCEPT
The parallelogram shaped Rotor Kitchen itself opens and closes automatically by means of a smart door handle and in the future may also be operable by app.
For safety reasons it comes with a warning sensor and automatic stop integrated in the free passage of the portal that detects when objects or persons are in danger. Furthermore, we will like to update the house with a fully integrating and animal friendly mosquito deterrent system to ensure that mosquitoes do not cause a nuisance.
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PRODUCTION
HOW CAN THE ROTOR HOME BE PRODUCED?
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IMPACT
INNOVATION OR NOVALTY OF THE PRODUCT
Talking about Rotor Home’s innovative features we could mention the distinctive parallelogram shape of the portal, which ensures the continuous wind and water tightness of the Rotor Wall. We could talk about the sustainable electrical facilities in the form of the designer solar panels and wood-fired central heating system. We could speak with proud
about all of the sustainable building materials used for the precast walls and sheep wool insulation. But many architects and designers have preceded us on those very relevant points and we will continue to do so.
No, the real innovation of the Rotor Home is what living on the border of inside and outside does to the users. The design places an everyday action, which is the opening and closing of a door, drawer or facade in a totally different light! Once you stand in a Rotor Home and rotate the entire facade of the house to the outside, it is child’s play. It creates an immersive sense of openness. Bringing your interior outside that thereby takes on an exterior function is unique on this scale. We open doors, drawers and gates every day but opening facades and stepping outside into a spa or harvesting your vertical farm is of a different order and magnitude. Rotor Home not only contributes to reducing your ecological footprint, but lets you blur your relationship with indoors and outdoors, creating more connection with nature.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT / THE NEXT TREND?
Climate change is a daily reminder of how times have changed. But after a pandemic, we may also have started to look differently at the world around us. People have begun to think more consciously about social relationships and this has brought them closer to each other or to themselves, both socially and spiritually. This has greatly stimulated the need in many people to live closer to and with nature.
As designers, we see it as our responsibility not only to want to contribute to the appreciation and cultivation of design and beautiful architecture.But we also look for ways through our designs to express the need to really contribute to a sustainable tomorrow in realizable and reachable products.
Products like our Rotor Home inspire more people to build on a environment-friendly, low-carbon society and economy.