17 most original residential buildings in the world

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

It is quite natural for any owner to make his home better and more interesting, reflecting his personality traits in it. But some are so carried away and fantasize that the result is real architectural masterpieces. Say what you like, but it is impossible not to admire these residential buildings!

Transparent House (Japan)

The unusual 55 square meter house was designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Fully glass walls let in a lot of sunlight, but the building has a significant drawback: residents will not be able to hide in it from prying eyes.

Narrowest house in the world (Poland)

The house contains everything you need: a living room, a kitchen with a small dining room, a bedroom, a workplace and a bathroom.

The house, designed by the architect Yakub Shchensny, is literally squeezed into a gap between two skyscrapers. Despite its small size (the width of the building ranges from 72 to 122 centimeters), the house contains everything you need: a living room, a kitchen with a small dining room, a bedroom, a workplace and a bathroom.

Stone house

(Portugal)

In 1974, Victor Rodriguez, a fan of the Flintstone family cartoon, built his house between two huge boulders. The dwelling has a fireplace, stairs and even a swimming pool. But life in this house became impossible for the owners: due to the constant flow of tourists and vandals, they were forced to leave their homes, installing metal bars on the windows and doors.

House of Flintstones

(USA)

Other fans of the Flintstones, the legendary American TV presenter Dick Clark and his wife, also built a cave-style dwelling. The house turned out to be quite spacious, it has a living room, a dining room, and a bedroom.

House-shoe

(Pennsylvania, USA)

The Shoe House was built in 1948 by shoe retailer Mahlon Hines to advertise his services in an original way. Now anyone can rent this house.

Tree house

(Vietnam)

An unusual hotel in the form of a huge tree was created in the city of Dalat.

An unusual hotel in the form of a huge tree, which is also called a "madhouse", was created in the city of Dalat by the project of the avant-garde artist Dang Viet Nga, the daughter of the successor of Ho Chi Minh himself. True, in the daytime, guests do not have peace from the endless stream of tourists who are allowed to go inside the house and even look into the windows.

Mushroom house

(Ohio, USA)

The strangely shaped dwelling was remodeled from the most ordinary house by the professor of architecture and design of the architectural environment of the University of Cincinnati Terry Brown. The construction, in which the students of the architect took part, lasted for almost ten years. Subsequently, the owner used the house only as an office, although everything was provided for living in it.

Reversible attics withfishing

(Tokyo, Japan)

Living in such a house makes the inhabitants constantly face everyday difficulties, strengthens the immune system and promotes longevity.

Accommodation in the innovative residential complex Reversible attics of fate » can be a real challenge. Each of the nine apartments is unique in its own way: the rooms have walls of different colors and textures, the surfaces of its floors are convex or concave in places, the doors are curved at different angles, sockets and switches are located in hard-to-reach places, and there are no bathrooms at all. As conceived by the Body Architecture Research Foundation, life in such a house makes the inhabitants constantly face everyday difficulties, strengthens the immune system and promotes longevity.

House of cubes

(Montreal, Canada)

The residential complex "Dom-Kub" was built by the architect Piet Blom in 1984 as the embodiment of progressive ideas for the construction of residential buildings. The structure consists of forty cubes, inclined at an angle of 54.7 degrees. A quarter of the space in each apartment is unusable.

House - spaceship

(North Carolina, USA)

Matti Suuronen designed this unusual round house in the shape of a flying saucer. Plastic and fiberglass were used for the futuristic building.

Underground houses

(Switzerland)

The unusual underground dwelling is more like hobbits' houses.

The unusual underground dwelling, created by the designers of Vetsch Architektur, looks more like hobbits' houses. Thanks to their location, rooms in all nine houses remain lit with natural light throughout the day.

House in a water tower

(Belgium)

The designers of the BHAM studio were able to turn the old thirty-meter high water tower into a residential building. The result is a six-story building with an area of four hundred square meters.

House-nautilus

(Mexico)

The house in the form of a clam shell was created by bioarchitect Javier Senosian, commissioned by a young couple with two children. The inhabitants of the house can move inside the spiral staircase.

Sutyagin's house

(Russia)

The completely wooden thirteen-story building was built by businessman Nikolai Sutyagin in the nineties from an already existing three-story building and was recognized as sensational. However, this did not prevent the authorities from considering the construction illegal: the construction of wooden structures above two floors must be approved. At the direction of the authorities in 2008, the house was torn down to four floors, which burned down in 2012.

Upside Down House

(Poland)

Inside the house, too, everything is turned upside down, which is why visitors often complain of dizziness.

There are shape-shifters in many countries of the world, but this house especially attracts tourists due to the idea of the project. The author of the building, artist-architect Daniel Szapievski, wanted to show the state of disorientation of the Poles after the fall of the communist regime. Inside the house, too, everything is turned upside down, which is why visitors often complain of dizziness.

Teapot house

(Texas, USA)

The owner of this strange house worked with oil storage tanks and built it as a bunker in 1950. They say that the structure really withstood the onslaught of the elements and survived during a terrible hurricane in 2009.

Snail house

(Sofia, Bulgaria)

The funny house was built of concrete by the architect Simeon in 2009. A house is four times lighter than water. The five-story building has no sharp corners and is very energy efficient.