Five home designs you never thought could be possible

OTHER WORLDLY: Yet to be built, the Dutch Windwheel will provide new housing and generate sustainable power

Increasingly, architects and home owners are responding to the need to be creative and flexible with how they create or convert existing structures into homes.

In Australia,Church conversions and even stable conversions have turned unused buildings into residences, not to mention the growing trend of apartment conversions.

And it seems that homes all across the world are being squeezed into and moulded out of all types of structures.

A wind turbine

This design is yet to be built, butit promises big things for home buyers in Rotterdam. With72 apartments planned within a steel and glass wind turbine, the Dutch Windwheel has the dual function of providing new housing and generating sustainable power.

The plan is for the windwheel to provide a tourist attraction for the area, including cabins that run on rails to see the views and allow visitors to see historical presentations and visit the panoramic restaurant/sky lobby within the wheel.

A hotel of 160 rooms across seven floors is also part ofthe design, as well asbasement car parking.

It's also expected to capture rain and produce biogas.

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Five home designs you never thought could be possible