In 1935, engineer Angelo Inkyizzi designed a unique L -shaped building that could spin to enlist the health benefits of the sun.
Girasole villa has L -shaped structure. Photo: Amusing Planet
On the hills in northern Italy near Verona there is a L -shaped house called Girasole, which means “sunflowers” in Italy. Like this flower, the Girasole mansion rotates on a large rotating pedestal in the direction of the sun moving across the sky. The owner of Girasole, an architect Angelo Inkyizzi, has designed his house to absorb sunlight as much as possible to “maximize the health benefits of the sun”, according to the sun “, according to” Amusing Planet.
This is the first time there is a new awareness of the beneficial effects of sunlight to health. In 1930, in France, Dr. Saidman built a spinning sunbathing to treat patients with cancer, tuberculosis and many other sun diseases. The building consists of a horizontal arm that rotates above the central column in the direction of the sun during the day.
The idea of the Girasole mansion was born in 1929, and the same year, Dr. Saidman asked for a patent for his sunbathing. Angelo Inkyizzi, railway engineer, applies his knowledge to the rotating pedestal to turn the train to the house design. The building consists of two two -storey branches that are kept from the central column containing a staircase and an elevator. The branches contain many rooms and are located on the pedestal like the drum. This pedestal has a roller underneath the central column. The entire project moves on the adjusted car cake rack, operating thanks to two motor diesel, at a speed of nearly 23 cm/minute. The rotation of the house can be controlled by people with 3 simple switches: before, back and stop.
The first layer of the moving house includes the dining room at the end of one branch and the music room at the beginning of the remaining branch. In the middle is the learning room and smoking of the Inkyizzi couple along with the kitchen and toilet near the central tower. The second floor gathered a series of bedrooms and bathrooms to arrange symmetrically along each branch.
Inkyizzi must overcome many challenges in the rotating house design. He experimented with new materials such as concrete and fiber cement. When the outer wall was cracked due to vibration during rotation, he used a thin aluminum plate instead of the cement coating. Small cracks also appear along the plaster wall inside the movement. Inkyizzi hid damage by covering the canvas on the wall.
The project was completed in 1935, after 4 years. In the first few summer, Girasole villa rotates daily due to the newness and benefits for visitors.