A different architecture
I was surfing yesterday and I did see some strange houses and buildings all over the world. I’ve saved something for you all, enjoy :)
Basket house (Ohio, USA) – The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.
Bubble house (France) – The house of Pierre Cardin, near to Nice in France. Very nice!
Chameleon house (USA) - It’s the unassuming quality of this modern prefab house that makes it stand out most! Overlooking Lake Michigan, Chameleon House by Anderson Anderson Architecture is a simple structure with a strong vertical presence, rising amid rolling hills and agricultural landscape. Clad in galvanized metal and wrapped in a skirting wall of recycled translucent polyethelene slats, this contemporary house boasts the benefits of blending with its surroundings and the changing seasons, hence its name. “The translucent polyethylene material set out over the dully reflective wall cladding is chosen for its ability to gather the light and color of its landscape, dissolving the finely shadowed and inexplicably haloed structure into the seasonal color cycle of snow and ice and black twig tracery; pale pink blossom clouds; pollen green leaf and grass; golden straw and vivid foliage,” according to Anderson Anderson Architecture.
Cubic houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond. The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.
Rotating house (Australia) - It might look radical and ‘out there’, but Buckminster Fuller had this idea sewn up, a good 60 years ago. Plus his home was self powered, and much more besides. Talk about Prefab – his Dymaxion house was packed into huge tubes and transported to the site by air blimp. The guy was a genius, half a century ahead of his time. But back to today. The Everingham model is a 24 m (79’) diameter octagon with a 3-metre (10’), 360-degree verandah. It weighs 50 tonnes, but can rotate a full 360-degrees, around a central core of plumbing and electricals. Within this core is also a geothermal piping system (120 metres long and 2.5 metres deep), supplying a constant 22oC to the house. (Everingham Rotating House)
Free spirit house (British Columbia, Canada) - Free Spirit Houses in British Columbia, Canada are wooden spheres that hang from trees, cliffs, or other surfaces.
Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)
Kansas City public library (Missouri, US) - This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown. The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles were included as ‘bookbindings’ in the innovative design of the parking garage exterior, to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.
Klein Bottle house (Australia) – The Klein bottle is a descriptive model of a surface developed by topological mathematicians. Klein bottle, mobius strips, boy surfaces, unique surfaces that while they may be distorted remain topologically the same. I.e. a donut will remain topologically a donut if you twist and distort it, it will only change topologically if it is cut.
Taj Lake Palace Udaipur – Composed only of marble this palace took three years to complete , it was earlier known as Jag Niwas. It covers the entire area of the small island in the Pichola Lake.
Leaf house (Brasil) – Beautiful unique and modern beach house design with leaf form located in Brazil Designed as a giant tropical banana leaf and looking like a blossoming delight, the roof helps harvestrainwater for house use, and the whole design helps providing natural ventilation and cooling, thus reducing the need to rely on the grid. Perfectly suited for the region and climate, this aesthetically wonderful structure stands firmly at Rio de Janeiro to shield you from the scorching heat of sun. The inspiration was gathered from Brazil’s Indian architecture and put into reality without the slightest of mistakes. The verandas and in-between open spaces let trade winds rising from the sea to ventilate through building and provide passive cooling. That means you don’t need an air conditioner to cool down.
Monte Silo (Utah, US) – A cozy home to accommodate single man and weekend guests, including grandchildren, next to Provo River. Two linked corrugated metal grain silos arranged to allow the largest (27’ diameter) to have the most proximate visual and aural access to the Provo River, and the southern exposure to ensure passive solar heat gain during the winter. An electric mesh is embedded into the slabs of the lower floor as a first auxiliary heat source, and a propane-burning stove (manageable by internet) will provide the back-up. The metal grating and guard rail of the second level deck will provide shading into this great-room space during the summer months. Includes a “Bed in a Box” concept, each one complete with stereo sound and flat screen monitor.
Mushroom house aka Tree house (Cincinnati, Ohio, US) - Designed by architect Terry Brown, a professor of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati. The building was created with the assistance of university students. The house was sold in 2006.
Palacio des Artes (Valencia)
Piano house (China) - Inside of the violin is the escalator to the building. The building displays various city plans and development prospects in an effort to draw interest into the recently developed area.
Ripley’s house (Niagara Falls, Canada)
Sliding house (England) – London architects dRMM have designed a house with mobile walls and roof that can be moved to cover and uncover parts of the dwelling.
Steel house – That’s architect and sculptor Robert Bruno’s steel house/sculpture in Lubbock, Texas. Bruno spent 23 years building this strange home that looks like a giant pig out of 110 tons of steel!
Nautilus house – Who cares what the neighbors think? Let’s build a house that looks like a snail shell! That’s just what a Mexico City couple did, with the help of the astonishing imagination of those wild and wooly architects at Senosiain Arquitectos
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