The Tuimelhuis (Tumbling House), designed by architects Koers, Zeinstra and Van Gelderen, represents a mobile component of the immobile house. By moving it around, the potential usages of the Tuimelhuis are constantly evolving. One minute it’s a store room, a study, a bedroom or a playroom and the next it’s a sheltered outdoor space. A number of Tuimelhuizen can create a constantly shifting configuration of buildings around the garden path.

The Tumbling House is –along with fabulous creations such as Dre Wapenaar‘s Tree tents, Matti Suuronen’ Futurohouse, N55’s Snail Shell System and the Uruguyuan coffee house– one of the source of inspiration of Follydock IFCR, an international folly contest which assigned entrants to design a folly in the context of the Rotterdam (NL) harbour area.

As wikipedia writes, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be something other than what it is. The selected designs will be shown at the NAI, the Dutch Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam. The exhibition in the city will start in May 2007 and remain open during four months.

Via Bright.