10 unique and innovative homes

Masterpieces of modern residential architecture fits perfectly into the surrounding sredu

sentiment aside, the house - four walls, inside which there is a place for eating, sleeping and relaxing. We buy furniture and decorate it to make it their own, but other than that it is a little different from your neighbor's home. However, some homes do not fit into the template - thanks to its innovative design and imagination, these 10 houses are something wonderful.

1. Old water bashnya

This house, located in Stenokkerzel, Belgium, a little to the north-east of Brussels, built in about 1941 year. At first, he was a real water tower, and so remained until 1990, when he was the architect Mauro from Brigham «Bham Design Studio», decided to rebuild it. He created a tower in a modern living space, with all that it would be in any other house.



The building needed some repair work to make sure that it will be, but at the same time and started work to create beautiful innovative interior, incorporating many modern gadgets such as an integrated system regulating light, temperature and music in every room. The building has attracted the attention of many people, both from inside and outside the architectural community, so in 2005, the year it was given the status of protected landmarks.











































2. Malator

The Druidstone, Wells has an unusual house, literally drowned in the hills. Sometimes it is called the House of the Teletubbies home eerie resemblance to the creatures of television, and that it fits perfectly into the surrounding space. The house is under the ground and topped by an earthen roof. It was designed and built off-site in 1998, the year, as was located in an area where construction is prohibited. The British company, to create the house, she saw a way around this problem in the transportation of the finished house on the hill. Already one this maneuver makes the house unique. Over the past nearly 20 years it has been presented in many publications, both related and not related to architecture, including «Forbes» and «Curbed».





3. The narrowest in the world dom

If you are in Warsaw, Poland, do not blink, or you risk to miss this place. They say it is the narrowest house in the world, although it was not officially confirmed. According to the BBC, the house was built by Polish architect Jakub Szczesny (Jakub Szczesny) for the Israeli writer who needs a place to live and work in Warsaw for a short time each year. The width of the house, sat down in the alley between two other buildings is only 1, 5 meters at its widest point. Despite its size, the architect was able to hold all the essentials of modern home, including the kitchen, bathroom and sleeping cabin, albeit on a small scale.





















4. Areas free duha

Designed by architect Tom Chudleigh fantastic sphere - an adult version of a child's dream of the tree house. These tree houses with all facilities look very new, but builds them Chudleigh has for 20 years. He is the owner and founder of the company «Vancouver Island's Free Spirit Spheres», and, according to an interview in «Huffington Post», he was inspired by "the magic of the forest, you will not find anywhere else." Four areas are available for rent throughout the year, so keep them in mind if you want to relax in a non-traditional hotel.











5. House skeytborda

Only in America can you find a house, devoted his design and features skateboarding. This house in Malibu was built by French construction company «Francois Perrin / Air Architecture». This private residence was built specifically for Pierre Andre Senizergesa, former champion and founder of professional skate «Sole Technology». Inside you can ride a skateboard in any room, any room for more accurate because they are, in fact, constitute a ramp. The outer surface is also built so that it could be on the ride. The house is fully suitable for living and is divided into three segments. The first is for living, cooking and eating, and the second - a bedroom and bathroom, and the third - a special area for skiing.







6. Transparent dom

Transparent house in Tokyo, Japan is likely to maintain its unique long time. This house of three floors, built by «Sou Fujimoto Architects» of all 85-year-m2, consists of platforms, staggered and staff rooms in the broadest sense of the word. There are only a few walls, and they are made of glass. According to the «Famous Places», the house was inspired by the idea of ​​human ancestors that lived in the trees. In this house live people - the owners like to live as nomads in their own home. If necessary, hung curtains in the house, otherwise the couple living in it, would be subject to undue attention of curious.





7. Cardboard doma

Paper screens used for centuries in Japan to share the living room to room. This eco-friendly building material has found a new use at Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan, when Japanese architect Shigeru Ban built a house out of cardboard. The houses were built from cardboard tubes, convenient for transportation and installation of temporary housing for refugees and victims of natural disasters. Due to its design Ban received the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year.



Ban traveled all over the globe, providing the construction of their homes help where he could. Some of its buildings were used as places of worship and centers of assistance to disaster sites, making it a difficult time a little more comfortable for those in need.



8. Glass dom

Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, is not habitable, but still remains an example of innovative design in architecture. The mission of the house and its caretakers is to celebrate, protect and inspire innovation in architecture, design and landscape. There are exhibitions and public events that support the traditional role of the house as a meeting place of creative people. The house is also open for viewing and tours from May to November.



The house and its features are supported at the expense of donors and an anonymous sponsor. The house was built over the 45 years from 1949 to 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, graduated from Harvard. Architectural feats Johnson known since the 1940s, he also created a Sculpture Garden Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum of Modern Art in New York. However, the Glass House is still his most iconic creation.



9. Hemosfera

This house in Los Angeles designed by John Lautner. Lautner, while young aerospace engineer, designed the house so that he could stand on top of a very steep slope, where it would be impossible to build another house. The octagonal building resembles a spacecraft fitted on a high tower similar to siettlovskuyu Space Needle.



House, in spite of the repairs, - a clear product of the 1970s, but this is its charm: many see it as a triumph of the American mid-century design. The house was uninhabited and waiting for purchase so long that in the end, came to desolation, but in 1997, he was given a second chance when Benedikt Taschen and his wife confronted him during his adventures. The interior has been redesigned to fit modern tastes, breathed new life into the cult house, which is a private residence today.





10. Waterfall («Fallingwater») 88,640,221

There is hardly a list of architectural achievements, which does not put the building in the first place. This masterpiece of cult architect Frank Lloyd Wright, located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, familiar to almost everyone, regardless of the degree of knowledge of architecture and design. Its cantilever design, seems to defy the very laws of physics.



The house was built in 1935 as a refuge for Kayfmana businessman Edgar Sr., head of an elite family from Pittsburgh, has excellent taste. House area of ​​465 m² eventually cost $ 155 000, which corresponds to more than $ 2, 5 million in today's currency. Today, the house became a museum, and it is visited by an average of 160 000 visitors a year.





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