Portuguese 
Spanish 
What started as dissatisfaction with the position of the rooms turned into an unlikely project in northern Bosnia, where an entire house began to move on a rotating base to radically solve the family’s view.
In northern Bosnia, a domestic complaint turned into one of the region’s most curious constructions. The wife wanted to change the window view. The husband, instead of tearing down walls once again, decided to do something much more difficult: build an entire house capable of rotating.
The person responsible for the idea was Vojin Kusic, a 72-year-old self-taught inventor. He single-handedly erected a residence that moves on a central axis of 7 meters and can completely change the landscape seen from inside.
At the slowest speed, the house completes a turn in 24 hours. At the fastest, according to him, it spins everything in just 22 seconds.
-
Chinese Residential Building Surrounded by Circular Overpass After Residents Reject Compensation
-
After 79 Months and $145 Million Investment, Nepal Set to Open First 2.7 km Road Tunnel to Ease Traffic in Kathmandu Valley
-
In China, 23 Families Spent Over 4 Years Carving a 1.2 km Road Through a Cliff to Overcome Isolation and Transform a Remote Village
-
Giant 3,600-ton Crane Breaks Two World Records by Installing World’s Largest Single-Piece Forged and Welded Hydrogenation Reactor, Weighing 3,037 Tons, in Chinese Petrochemical Plant in Just Six Days
The window view became the center of the story
Before the rotating house, there was an ordinary house and a family impasse. When the couple built the first residence, Kusic’s wife wanted the rooms facing the sun.
The choice solved part of domestic life but created another dissatisfaction. The living room ended up facing away from the street, and she couldn’t see who was entering the front yard.
According to the Associated Press, one of the largest international news agencies, Kusic even tore down walls between two rooms to transform the space into a living room. He also had to adjust electrical installations to adapt the house to the family’s new desire.
But the problem returned years later when one of the sons got married and started occupying the upper part of the residence. The couple moved to the ground floor, and the possibility of new changes appeared again.
Instead of another renovation, an entire house in motion
It was at this point that Kusic decided not to repeat the path of renovations. If the view was the problem, the solution would not be to change the window. It would be to move the house.
In Srbac, a city in northern Bosnia, he began building a new residence on a rotating system he created himself. The structure gained a green facade, a red metal roof, and a mechanism capable of repositioning the entire house.
According to Reuters, an international news agency that reported the case, the rotation allows alternating the landscape seen through the windows between cornfields, farmland, forest areas, and a river.
What seemed like an eccentricity turned into a practical response to an old domestic problem. The wife would not need to choose a single orientation forever. The house could change along with her wishes.
Six years, electric motors, and military vehicle wheels
The project took six years to complete. Kusic did not have a university degree in engineering but created the system with electric motors and wheels taken from an old military transport vehicle, as reported by the Associated Press.
The construction was also interrupted by a heart problem. According to Reuters, he even asked doctors to prolong his life for at least another year because he had the project in mind and believed no one else would know how to finish it.
This detail adds another dimension to the work. The house was not just an improvised idea in the backyard. It was a project of persistence, trial, risk, and time.
Each part needed to work together: the central axis, the motors, the base, the structure of the residence, and the rotation speed. In the end, Kusic managed to create a house that can move almost imperceptibly throughout the day or rotate completely in a few seconds.
The consequence was greater than a change of scenery
The wife, Ljubica, did not want to give an interview about the house. But the project gained international attention precisely because it transforms a common situation into something unexpected.
Many families renovate rooms, move furniture, or change windows to solve domestic inconveniences. Kusic took this logic to the extreme and built an entire house capable of obeying the desired landscape.
He also stated that the structure would be more resistant to earthquake damage than a fixed house, but that is his assessment.
