The mechanism of Vojin Kusic's rotating house is seen in Srbac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
SRBAC, Bosnia, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Seeking to please his wife who had wished for a more diversified view from their family house, a Bosnian self-taught innovator has built a rotating house, allowing her to watch a rising sun in one moment and passers-by in the next.
"I've got tired of her complaints and frequent refurbishing of our family house and I said: I'll build you a rotating house so you can spin it as you wish," Vojin Kusic, 72, told Reuters, standing in front of his new house that attracts the attention of visitors.
Situated on a fertile plain in northern Bosnia near the town of Srbac, the house spins around a 7-metre axis designed by Kusic, with the view of cornfields and farmland changing to forests and the river at a desired speed.
"The house can make a full circle for 24 hours when it's at the slowest speed, while at the fastest spinning it can make a full circle in 22 seconds," Kusic said.
His wife did not wish to comment on the new house.
Kusic said he was inspired by Serbian-American inventors Nikola Tesla and Mihajlo Pupin, and that coming from a poor family without the possibility of a good education had forced him to look for ways to make things by himself.
"This is not an innovation, it only requires will and knowledge, and I had enough time and knowledge," he said, adding that he had built the house completely by himself.
The project took six years to finish, except time off for a hospital stay due to a heart condition. The house is more resistant to earthquake damage than stationary houses, he said.
"I asked doctors to try to prolong (my life) for at least a year because I have this project in my head, and... nobody will know how to complete it."
Reporting by Dado Ruvic, writing by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Clelia Oziel
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AsILayTyping on October 10th, 2021 at 15:43 UTC »
"Seeking to please his wife who had wished for a more diversified view from their family house, a Bosnian self-taught innovator has built a rotating house, allowing her to watch a rising sun in one moment and passers-by in the next."
As the house was lowered off the jacks onto the new foundation with rotating top mat, one of the attendees asked why he didn't just install a second or maybe even third window.
It was then he discovered the house can do a full rotation in 22 seconds, requiring only 11 seconds to rotate the wall with the door and window from the street full of critical bystanders to his back lawn full of non-judgemental gnomes.
thorndike on October 10th, 2021 at 14:33 UTC »
I want to see how the mechanicals are connected.
blahblahblerf on October 10th, 2021 at 14:27 UTC »
"I asked doctors to try to prolong (my life) for at least a year because I have this project in my head, and... nobody will know how to complete it."
I don't have the words to describe how I feel about this statement. It leaves a really strong impression for sure.