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"I've got tired of her complaints and frequent refurbishing of
our family house and I said: I'll build you a rotating house so
you can spin it as you wish," Vojin Kusic, 72, told Reuters,
standing in front of his new house that attracts the attention
of visitors.
Situated on a fertile plain in northern Bosnia near the town of
Srbac, the house spins around a 7-metre axis designed by Kusic,
with the view of cornfields and farmland changing to forests and
the river at a desired speed.
"The house can make a full circle for 24 hours when it's at the
slowest speed, while at the fastest spinning it can make a full
circle in 22 seconds," Kusic said.
His wife did not wish to comment on the new house.
Kusic said he was inspired by Serbian-American inventors Nikola
Tesla and Mihajlo Pupin, and that coming from a poor family
without the possibility of a good education had forced him to
look for ways to make things by himself.
"This is not an innovation, it only requires will and knowledge,
and I had enough time and knowledge," he said, adding that he
had built the house completely by himself.
The project took six years to finish, except time off for a
hospital stay due to a heart condition. The house is more
resistant to earthquake damage than stationary houses, he said.
"I asked doctors to try to prolong (my life) for at least a year
because I have this project in my head, and... nobody will know
how to complete it."
(Reporting by Dado Ruvic, writing by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing
by Clelia Oziel)
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