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Moebius House a super-sized strip of math wonder

If you've ever wanted to live in a mathematical head-scratcher, the Moebius House is the home for you.

Amanda Kooser
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.
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Moebius House
This rendering shows the Moebius House in its natural habitat. Planning Korea

The Moebius House doesn't look or sound real. It's designed to be built on a Korean island in a forest growing on volcanic rock. It's inspired by the unending brain teaser known as a Mobius strip.

Design firm Planning Korea has tackled some creative projects in the past, including designs for a mega-bridge over the Han River and a cocoon-shaped house that looks like it could hide a giant insect inside. It's no wonder those same architects saw a Mobius strip as a good basis for a house.

The two-story Moebius House features tons of windows and a curved exterior shaped like the famous strip. This would be the perfect abode for a mathematician. Currently, details are sketchy on whether the structure is actually slated for construction.

Perhaps this unusual building will inspire a movement of houses based on mathematical anomalies and oddities. I would love to see some Fibonacci sequence flats or Poincare conjecture condos. I challenge architects to turn Fermat's Last Theorom into a mobile home design. That would make a Mobius-based house look pretty easy by comparison.

Moebius House model
A scale model of the Moebius House. Planning Korea

(Via Designboom)