Rotating Tiny Home in Portland Available For Rent

Changing the rules for a perfect view

359 House
The 359 tiny house in Portland, Oregon
AirBnB

The world abounds with innovative examples of tiny home design, but there’s one residence in Portland, Oregon that opts for a particularly distinctive feature. In the city’s Boise neighborhood, if you look closely enough, you can find a tiny home that rotates. Imagine: a spot where the perfect light coming through a living room window can last all day.

And now, this singular experience is open to the public: the home’s owners have it up for rent on AirBnB.

A report at Oregon Live also explored some of the house’s distinctive features, and discussed architect Ben Kaiser’s goals for the project.

Kaiser turned convention on its head by taking a 12-foot-square footprint, blowing it up two stories, and putting a glass wall in the front and solid walls in the back.

He then cleverly placed the whole structure on top of a series of wheels connected to a steel bezel that rotates like a giant turntable.

Insert a steel lever into the platform’s socket under the porch to turn it on its axis.

The house can’t quite rotate 360 degrees due to its water and power connections — hence the project’s name, 359.

For those whose interest in this tiny house goes beyond just spending a night there, building a 359 of your own is also in the cards: the article mentions that blueprints for this distinctive house can be purchased from Kaiser’s architecture firm.

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