DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSES:
10. THE KLEIN BOTTLE HOUSE
This house is in Mornington, Peninsula, Australia and was built by McBride Charles Ryan and it was named as the ‘World’s Best House in 2009‘. The house is based on the concept of Klein Bottle which basically means to invert a cylinder into itself which thus creates an unusual spiral form. This means the interior of the house is the exterior and the exterior is the interior. A courtyard is present right in the middle of the house so that wind can pass through it with ease. Genius work I must say!
9. CHAMELEON HOUSE
Located in North Port, Michigan this particular house with a mysterious name was created by the Anderson Architecture Company in 2006 on top of a hill that over looked Michigan Lake. The house uses pre-fabricated material which is the reason why it took less than 8 weeks to build it. The whole frame of the house which is made of steel in actual is covered in slats of acrylic. What happens is that these slats capture all the changing colors of the landscape just like the color changing reptile blends into its environments or for that matter a chameleon. When you walk into the house you either go down to the bedrooms or go upstairs to the living area. Being situated on a hill its landing is on the third floor.
8. FREE SPIRIT SPHERE
Tom and Rosy chudleigh are known all over the world for building round living space representing spheres catering to customers all around the world. The hanging room like structure depicted in the picture above is one of their master pieces. Located near the Qualicum Beach in British Columbia, this free spirit sphere (known as so because it rocks slightly in the wind) can be used as a temporary hideout (hah) or an exciting idea of a tree house. It weighs around 1100 pounds and it takes three people to install it.
7. 222 HOUSE
Located in Pembrokeshire Wales, it is in the National part of the Southwest Coast. And because it is architecturally sunk into the ground instead of standing tall, it does not affect the landscape at all. The firm known as Future Systems completed this in 1994. It is a sustainable design and thus has a turf covering on the sides as well as the roof. This house has a geo-thermal insulation which reduces energy consumption. More interestingly, its bathrooms and kitchens were ready-made and were lifted straight into the building.
6. THE LEAF HOUSE
Located in Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, this house looks like a giant flower from aerial view where each of the flower petals represent a different section of the house. The unique thing about this house is the fact that a stream runs through it and ends into a pond in the backyard and the fact that this house has no hallways also makes it peculiar. The construction company (also the architects behind this piece of art) care Mareines + Platalano ensured that the house is different from the house building that we have now come to adopt as standards. Peter from the same company believes that great spaces are created this way.
5. EVERINGHAM ROTATING HOUSE
This house is located in Taree Australia, and as is very evident from the name of the house, this residential octagonal structure can rotate at an angle of 360 degrees. The amazing thing is that although this structure looks as if it might have cost the builders so much of extra money considering the fact that two motors of nearly 500 watts capacity each are used to rotate the house at will and also the electricity and plumbing needed to be assembled in a way so as to keep it consistent while the house rotates, the expense of building it was exactly the same as an ordinary non-rotating house. Kudos to the architects we say!
4. THE NAUTILUS
This house that is formed in the shape of a seashell was made in 2006. There are stone steps in front of the house along the shrubbery that lead to the front door, a door that is submerged into the mosaic front as if it were actually a part of it. One look at the house and a person is mesmerized, such is the beauty. The architect for this house was Javiaer Sensonian and he is the one who has been known to practice a concept called Bioarchitecture. Based on this concept he has created many homes in the forms of snakes, whales, and other creatures obviously being inspired by nature. According to him, everybody can learn from something like this.
3. THE STEEL HOUSE
The Steel house in Lubbock, Texas is completely made of steel. As far as the looks are concerned, the architect wanted something that looks like a machine as well as an animal and thus this. The two notable things about this structure are the facts that for one, it stands on all four and does not disrupt the earth like a normal seated structure of a house would have done. Secondly this house was made on the go and not on a skeleton frame.
2. THE SLIDING HOUSE
Located in Suffolk, England this house has the amazing mechanical capability of shifting its entire outer body away from the inner second body which is made entirely of glass. Four batteries of 12-volts each are required to run a motor which moves the outer body away in 6 minutes. Therefore the house can be adjusted according to the temperature. That would mean a total of 5 dollars mights be required to heat up the whole house on a slightly sunny day!
1. THE BUBBLE CASTLE
Created by Antti Lovag, this place is the exact depiction of what Lovag believes to be true. That we should move away from traditional structures. The house incorporates a lot of elements from its surroundings to its interior for example the rockeries and palm trees. There are no straight lines and neither are there any sharp angles in the entire structure. This has been deemed as a historical monument by the Department of Culture in France although it still has not seen 50 years of existence.
