Architectural Renderings House-Fascinating Heliotrope Solar Home

The brainchild of Architect Ralph Disch called the Heliotrope. It’s a rotating solar home that was the seed for the extraordinary Sonnenschiff Solar Development and the modern solar movement in Germany. It’s allowing daylight to course though its triple-pane windows and energize its large roof-mounted solar array and solar thermal pipes.

The result is one of the first zero energy modern homes in the world. This home actually ends up generating five times the energy it consumes.

When his hometown in Freiburg, Germany considered building a nuclear power plant built nearby 25 years ago, Ralph Disch fought vigorously to keep it from happening. He seek alternative power plan project to decline nuclear power plan. And for the result is Helitrope home.


This home using concept that makes incredible use of solar energy bucause the kinetic design. Mounted on a pole, the home could rotate 180 degrees through the day, following the sun’s track. The 6.6 kWH solar panels on top produce more than enough energy to make the home net energy positive.

A unique hand railing system on the roof doubles as solar thermal tubing that heats the home’s water and radiators. The home also reuses greywater and rainwater for domestic use and also features a composting toilet system.

While the practicality of the home’s design may not have caught on, the principles behind it speak to a genuine revolution in sustainable design that many architects are only now starting to realize.

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