Four walls and a couple of windows are boring.Try building a building for 20,000 people that can be disassembled like a construction set, or a house whose walls are all windows. Modern architects know how to surprise — let's be surprised together Seoul, South Korea This house belongs to : on the first floor there is a cafe — their small business, and the owners themselves live on the second and third. surrounded on three sides by other buildings, the fourth faces the west. Usually in such a situation, natural light can only be dreamed of. But thanks to the curved walls and the system of translucent facades with , the unusual house is always full of daylight.
Tokyo, Japan This trailer, or house onwheels, designed and manufactured by a Japanese manufacturer of finishing materials for the home and garden. There are standards for the size and weight of such unusual houses, so to add space, the door is left open.
Apslon, Australia You won't believe it, but this isfood market. It is built in the very center of the picturesque east coast to attract tourists. Here you can relax and hide from the sun, have a snack, and from the observation deck there is a picturesque panorama. All this is made mainly from steel containers that are used in sea transportation.
Marrakech, Morocco And this exhibition complexwas built specifically for the UN World Conference (COP 22), which attracted 20,000 participants in November 2016. Its main feature is that the entire structure can be completely disassembled. Its central section is 680 meters long and 18 meters wide, unites all the elements and is covered by a giant canopy along its entire length.
Quebec, Canada This home is for a family of twochildren as if it came from the pages of a fairy tale, and all because the architects tried to fit it into the surroundings as best as possible. The double triangular prism is associated with two coniferous trees, the sloping roof continues the idea of the slope on which the unusual house stands, the color of the facade merges with the ground, and transparent glass doors make the living space seem like part of the forest, allowing it to penetrate inside.
Massif Central in France Another oneThe unusual house from the selection was conceived as almost completely transparent and partially white. All the colored spots that can be found here are a successful play of light and the surrounding nature. The role of artificial lighting here is played by dense rows of spotlights that almost merge with the ceiling and are not conspicuous. Therefore, at any time of the day, it seems that the house is filled with light simply by itself.
Suffolk, UK This building has becomeThe first in the UK to be built from scratch for a Buddhist settlement, without using existing buildings. This allowed for all the subtleties of Buddhist culture to be taken into account and for the creation of the most comfortable environment with modern design and technology.
Zurich, Switzerland It was built in 1893 andIt consisted of six apartments with awkward layouts, small rooms and living rooms with windows facing north. Now it is spacious, there is a lot of light, and the free space between this unusual house and the neighboring one is filled with steel structures that are wide terraces for the residents of both buildings.
Unusual Houses: 8 Amazing Buildings
