These extraordinary houses are capable of blowing the brain to anyone!
We all dream of a big cozy house and a lot of money that would allow such a house to buy. Today, architects and designers are inventing ever more unusual houses, then sticking a cozy nest right on the rocks, then narrowing the house so that it can hardly fit, without hitting behind the opposite walls. Yes, judge for yourself - these extraordinary houses are capable of blowing the brain to anyone!
1. House-crevice
Polish architect Yakub Szczesny built a house in Warsaw, after seeing which, you will not even understand what to look at. Do you see this gap between the houses, closed to the third floor? This is it - the narrowest house in the world! Reaching a maximum width of 122 cm, this is more than a miniature apartment, of course, is not designed for permanent residence. On the contrary, it was conceived as a temporary refuge for wandering writers.
2. Hobbit's House
Located in a picturesque mountain valley in Wales, the hobbit's house is entirely made of natural materials and costs only $ 5,200. It is ideal for fans of the movie trilogy "The Lord of the Rings", and for lovers of life in nature. He built this fabulous house in just four months by photographer Simon Dale. If you are so impressed with the idea that you decided to build such a house for yourself, you can download the project on the site of Dale.
3. The house of the "sleeper"
If you watched the 1973 Woody Allen comedy "Sleeping", recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts as one of the greatest comedies of all time, you will surely recognize this house, which played a significant role in the film. Better known as the "bent house of Dieton", the building is ellipse-shaped and built on top of the Ginesi mountain in Colorado. Inspired by the beauty of the mountains around, architect Charles Dieton designed and built a house in 1963 to contemplate the splendor of the surrounding nature through the panoramic windows of a quaintly curved dwelling.
4. House in the rocks
Beginning in 1000 BC, people living in Cappadocia, in the territory of modern Turkey, built their houses, hollowing them out in a frozen volcanic rock. For today, entire cities are known, built both on and under the surface of the earth. Early Christians built their cave monasteries in this way, hiding them from prying eyes. Some buildings resemble modern apartment buildings.
5. House above the waterfall
Located in the picturesque "Bear Stream" in Pennsylvania and designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this masterpiece of organic architecture hangs over a natural waterfall. The house has a second name - "Kaufman's residence", - since was built in 1936-1939 for the then-known businessman Edgar Kaufman. In 1966, "the house over the waterfall" was declared a national historical monument of the United States and recognized as the best work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
6. The steel house
American architect Robert Bruno worked on the project of this house for more than 20 years - from 1973 to 1996, resulting in Texas was erected an incomprehensible, completely steel structure, which took 110 tons of metal. However, due to the death of its creator in 2008, the construction of the building was never completed. At present, the house is abandoned, and there are no prospects that someone will complete it: there are hardly any brave souls wishing to live in a house that is heated like a frying pan in the summer heat and cools down like a freezer in the winter cold.
7. The Stone House
The house called Casa de Penedo was built in Portugal in 1974 from four huge boulders. It's hard to believe, but the house has a swimming pool, a stove and a fireplace, carved into stone. The main disadvantage is the lack of electricity.
8. Edible house
Norwegian architects involved in eco-design have built an "edible house", which consists entirely of packing baskets for vegetables. Need parsley for a soup or salad for salad? Tear right out of the wall! In general - a self-sufficient ecological house, the dream of the Greenpeace.
9. Skateboarder's house
The famous skater Pierre Andre Senizerghe owns a house in which he can ride on the board for at least twenty-four hours. One of the authors of the project itself is engaged in skateboarding, so he understood Pierre's desire to have a ramp house.
10. Transparent house
On one of the busy streets of the Japanese capital a few years ago there was an unusual building - a multi-level glass house. We can say that the house does not have windows, because the transparent walls completely let in the sunlight. Of course, this new word in architecture and the project deserves attention, but would you like to live in such a house, deprived of one of the main principles of the house itself - privacy? The famous English proverb "my house is my castle" is clearly not applicable to this original creation of Japanese architects.