( CNN ) -- It 's the townhouse that twists like a Rubik 's cube , to bask in the summer sun and shield itself when winter bites . Welcome to the transforming Sharifi-ha House in Tehran , Iran , where a normally static facade has been replaced by an adaptable , modular living space . Not content with luxury touches including a swimming pool , gym and cinema space , the seven-floor mansion has been designed to incorporate three rotating blocks that turn 90 degrees and transform the interior and exterior space . The design was grounded in need rather than luxury , say Tehran-based studio Next Office , the architects behind the new building . Temperatures in Iran can rise above 40 degrees Celsius ( 104 degrees Fahrenheit ) or plummet well below freezing . Traditional Iranian houses cope with these extremes by incorporating an airy living room for summer and a separate , cosy living room for winter months . In the Sharifi-ha -- meaning Sharif 's house , after its owner -- rooms are transformed at the touch of a button . In the `` open '' mode , the three blocks pivot outwards on their rotating base , pointing the windowed ends to the sun , which also creates a terrace on each floor . `` Closed '' mode hides the windows to keep the house warm during Tehran 's snowy winters . The original design -- which Alireza Taghaboni , lead designer at Next Office , claims also references traditional Iranian houses -- has earned the firm a nomination at the World Architecture Festival Awards . Inside the house , two basement floors provide fitness facilities and `` wellness areas , '' explains Taghaboni . Above a ground floor garage space and living quarters for a housekeeper , the top four floors comprise the home 's communal areas . The two lowest moving `` blocks '' form a breakfast room and guest bedroom , while the upper block will be an office . Creating the rooms to turn on demand was no easy feat , say the architects . They puzzled over the interior handrails -- eventually redesigning them to fold as the rooms rotated . The turning mechanism for the rooms was , they say , the least of their worries -- the mechanical bases were already in use elsewhere -- as rotating sets in theaters or platforms for cars in showrooms . For the World Architecture Festival Award , the building will now go up against Vietnamese houses styled to become live-in plant pots , a concrete beach hut in Australia designed to withstand northern Queensland 's tropical storms , and a Mexican villa that rises tree-like out of above its surrounding vegetation . See also : London 's insane luxury basements . See also : Who invests the most in global property ? See also : Micro-homes offer big solutions .
Architects in Rian have design a house with rotating rooms . The idea is that the room will rotate around its axis, and you can see it from any angle ( or even just looking at your phone ) -ha has three rooms that can open in summer and close in winter . The design is inspired by traditional Iranian houses that have different living rooms for the two seasons .