KINETIC ARCHITECTURE IN SUSTAINABLE MEANS
Palace of Versailles in France was constructed with a floor part of it could be lowered to another level where servants could set the banquet table and then raised again to the room level. Modern revolving stages took place at several theatres in Europe and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century .Ye Liberty Playhouse was probably the first permanently revolving stage built in the United States, in Oakland, California, in 1903. Harry Bishop, the manager who designed the stage, had reportedly seen revolving Kabuki stages during a trip to Japan.
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(a) The construction of the Santa Barbara County bowl revolving stage in 1936 which was destroyed by El-Nino floods during 1939 in the United States of America (SantaBarbaraBowlFoundation, N/D). (b) Architect M. Engere Pettit and physician Lucien Pellegrine “heliotropic house" 1903 In 1903 the rotating "heliotropic house" was exhibited by famous French architect M. Engere Pettit in consultation with physician Lucien Pellegrine at the Exposition de habitation in Paris. The model was based on a building called Villa Tournesol Pattit which was constructed in south France. It was often referred to as a "family Sanatoruim", because the physician's belief that the sun was the cure for most diseases. For a maximum benefit of daylight in different rooms at different times, the house had a cross-shaped plan with large window openings on most walls. Also, it was set on a turntable with ground-level ball-bearing raceway, which helped rotating the house to follow the sun by moving a lever once an hour for a rotation of a few inches. A larger version with a gasoline engine, to rotate the house once per day, was proposed. In 1929 Jean Saidman, an early expert in the field of actinology, which is a branch of science that explored the chemical effects of light, designed and patented a new type of solarium to improve upon existing ultraviolet light treatments with the assistance of architect Andre Farde. The first version was constructed in the French spa community Aix Les-Bains the following year, and it didn't look like any other building ever constructed. Examination and waiting rooms were featured in the design's base (or pillar) ground floor. Its roof was steeply pitched conical covered with diamond-shaped tiles. PRAGYA BHARATI (2014-2019)
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