Unique Houses Around The World

UNIQUE HOUSES AROUND
THE WORLD

GROUP MEMBER NAMES:

NURIN BATRISHA
NURAISYAH SOFEA
NUR AMIRA HUSNA

POEM

Home is the best and the safest place
A place where we lived
since we were young
Together with the family and friends

We play and have fun
like nothing else is important
There's no place like home
How can you forgot the place

A place full of love and dreams
This is where we always belong
forever
A place where we spend our times the most
bring comfort and peace to us

Where we found our happiness and sadness
Where we create our memories the most
Either big or small, there's no differences
It's still the same
And that's the place where we call it as HOME .

THE TRANSPARENT HOUSE

The specialists of the architectural firm Sou Fujimoto Architects have erected
the unique house in one of the lively districts of Tokyo, whose walls are the
transparent panels. On sunny days all the rooms of the transparent house are
flooded with the light. It's inhabitants have to take care to hide from the
foreign eyes.

The spatial design of the transparent house is unique and ultramodern. The
space of the house, whose surface is 85 sqm, is divided on several levels, which
are connected with each other by fine stairs. In the house there is the modern
kitchen, the bedrooms, the excellent recreation zones with panoramic windows.

The dominant color of the interior is white. The architects preferred
exclusively natural materials. The book shelves and the other pieces of
furniture are made of birch, the floor and stairs were also made of natural
wood. At any moment, the housekeepers can make the atmosphere private and
quite, for which the huge windows are equipped with the roller shutters.

PALAIS BUBBLES

Fittingly named Palais Bubbles, or "Palace of Bubbles", this residence
represents the fundamental ideas of architect Antti Lovag, who views
architecture as a"form of play - spontaneous, joyful, full of suprise. Built in

1989, it rests on a rocky cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Also known as Pierre Cardin house, the bubble forms of the architecture have

created the most visible and well-known structures of Antti Lovag. The
backdrop of many editorial fashion photographs, Palais Bubbles is often rented
out for film festival parties and other grand events. Although most reactions to
the building are visual, an important aspect of architecture in Lovag's designs

are how they can be inhabited, a term he coined as habitology.
"Whether for economic reasons or lack of technical solutions, human beings
have confined themselves to cubes full of dead ends and angles that impede our

movement and break our harmony". This explains Lovag's interest in the
complexity of spherical and spheroidal rooms that constitute Palais Bubbles. To

Lovag, the straight line is "an aggresion against nature," human nature to be
more specific.

This is unsuprisingly transformed into the three dimensional sphere, which is
the lightest, strongest, most material-efficient form of them all.

THE TOILET SHAPED HOUSE

.The Toilet-Shaped House is in Suwon which is about 25 miles of south
of Seoul. While Sim was famously called "Mr.Toilet", and the house nicknamed
the toilet house, that is not it's official name. Instead, he named it Haewoojae,

which signifies in Korean "a place of sanctuary where one can solve one's
worries." The house has two bedrooms, two guest rooms, amd three 'deluxe'
bathrooms. The entire house is made of steel, white concrete, and glass. It also

has a symbolic bowl-like opening in the roof.
Along with being chairman of The World Toilet Association, Sim was also
mayor of his small town, and become famous for providing all the toilets at the
2002 World Cup, held in South Korea.He also made a fortune developing metal
products, many of which were purchased by Samsung Electronics, which is

headquartered in Suwon.
So how did Sim get so focused on toilets? According to him, he was born in
a toilet. "My mother believed that people born in bathrooms enjoyed longer
lives." One of his close associates adds that "he literally began life in a toilet
and his life ended in a commode shaped house." Sim died in 2009. He was 70
years old, which means he was only able to enjoy his famous toilet-shaped house
for two years. However, the house lives on. Today it is a museum that not only
tells the story of the history of toilets but is also used as an art gallery

THE TWISTED HOUSE

This topsy-turvy house looks like it's being supported by it's own roof. The
sculpture, called “Twisted House,” was created by John McNaughton, an artist
whose work has been featured in Smithsonian collections and the White House.

For over 35 years, McNaughton taught woodworking at the University of
Southern Indiana. He created this piece in 2015, and it showcases his crafty

woodworking skills. The house is crafted from cedar wood while the five
windows contain glass. Even the flowers on the windowsill are made out of wood.

What makes this sculpture unique is that visitors can actually walk into the
artwork as if it were an actual house. Visitors can peer out the window and view
the surrounding woods. The forest’s dirt makes up the house’s floor. This piece

is a stunning example of bringing together nature and art. This whimsical
sculpture can be viewed for free at the Indianapolis Art Center. The art piece

is kept outside and is best viewed in warmer weather.

THE BEER CAN HOUSE

The Beer Can House is a folk art house in Rice Military, Houston, Texas,
covered with beer cans, bottles, and other beer paraphernalia. Houstonian John

Milkovisch worked through the late 1960s to transform his Houston home at
222 Malone Street into the Beer Can House. The Beer Can House is now one of
Houston's most recognizable folk art icons. It is covered with flattened beer
cans, bottle caps, bottles, and other beer ephemera. The house is estimated to

include over 50,000 beer cans.
Milkovisch started his project in 1968 inlaying thousands of marbles, rocks,
brass figures and metal pieces in concrete blocks and redwood, all of which
were used to make patios, fences, flower boxes, and an array of other items.
The result was a yard with no grass, as the entire front and back yards were
covered with cement. When asked why he did it, John simply answered, "I got
sick of mowing the grass." Today, the Beer Can House is owned and operated by
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, a non-profit organization founded
in 1980 to preserve and present works of extraordinary imagination and provide

people the opportunity to express personal artistic vision.

THE CUBE HOUSE

The Cube Houses are centrally located next to the Rotterdam Black railway
station. Even after more than 30 years, this Cube Houses remain one of the
city’s most eye-catching developments. It’s easy to see because these striking
homes are cubes tilted 45-degree on their side, optimized to make the most of
the available space. The result is buildings that look, feel and behave unlike

anything you’ll find elsewhere in the world.
Dutch architect Piet Blom designed Rotterdam's Cube Houses in the late-’70s
at the request of the city’s planners. Blom had previously experimented with
cubic architecture in the Dutch city of Helmond. So when he was offered this
project in the Oude Haven area of the center, he decided to expand upon his
original ideas. Interestingly, the Cube Houses even form a pedestrian bridge

across one of the busiest roads into the city center.
The Cube Houses were designed asymmetrically to resemble an abstract forest,
each triangular roof representing a treetop. The residences were constructed

on concrete pillars with wooden framing. Once you step inside, the first thing
to get used to is that all the walls are slanted. And as you enter the top half of

the structure, your initial inclination may well be to mind your head.

THE STEEL HOUSE

This bizarre structure is actually someone’s house—or, at least it used to be.
The steel abode is the labor of love of Robert Bruno, an unconventional sculptor

who handcrafted it from 1973 until his death in 2008. It is located on a ridge
overlooking Lake Ransom Canyon, Robert Bruno’s Steel House is made of 150

tons of blackened steel, each piece welded by hand, and was created with
virtually no outside assistance. The interior is wooden, resembling the inside of

a tree trunk, and many of the windows are made of beautiful stained glass.
But after 35 years of hard labor, time got the better of Bruno and his

masterpiece was never completed. There are gaping holes between the house’s
different levels, and the architect’s plans of installing an aquarium and a pool.
To Bruno, the Steel House was viewed as more of a hobby than a project that
needed to be finished; the architect was known to scrap months of work at a

whim, and the lack of closure was of no concern.

THE FLINTSTONES HOUSE

The house, playfully dubbed by Bay Area residents as The Flintstone House, is
actually an experimental house built in 1976 with rooms in which every surface
is rounded. Beneath its burnt orange (originally white) coat of paint is a slew of
cement, rebar, plaster putty, wire mesh, and aeronautical balloons. The house

looks somewhat like a series of inflated balloons, which makes sense, as this
was how it was constructed. Steel rebar and wire mesh frames were

constructed over large inflated balloons and then sprayed with high-velocity
concrete known as gunite or “shotcrete.”

The Flintstone House is marveled at by many passersby, it’s also loathed
by many Hillsborough residents. In the mid-1980s, the home began to show
serious wear as water runoff on the steep hillside caused it to sink and the
walls began to develop deep cracks. Word spread of such problems and several
neighbors pushed to have the home removed. However, to their dismay, a
severe renovation and change in ownership brought the home back to life in

1987. It took on its characteristic “Flintstone” look when it was painted
completely orange in 2000. Today, The Flintstone House is as well known for its

architecture as it is for its sporadic tenants, which has led to several urban
legends surrounding the home’s ownership. It’s rumored that George Lucas once
owned the house. It’s also said that several famous Silicon Valley investors have

lived there as well.

THE SKATEBOARD HOUse

Skateboard house must be the ultimate dream for generations of
skateboarders who wanted to bring their practice into their home. The PAS
House is the project of a private residence, to be built in Malibu, California. In
this house you will be able to skate any areas and surfaces, indoor and outdoor.
The client and visionary of the project is Pierre Andre Senizergues (PAS), a
former World champion and Pro Skater and the founder of Etnies. The PAS
house is the first house designed to be entirely used for skateboarding as well

as being a traditional dwelling. The prototype of PAS House was recently
presented at La Gaite Lyrique museum in Paris.

The house is divided into three separate spaces. The first one includes
the living room, dining area and kitchen, the second one includes a bedroom and
bathroom and the third one a skateboard practice area.Each space is skateable
as the ground becomes the wall then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming

a tube of a 10ft radius. The furniture is also skateable, whether it is
integrated in the curve like the sitting area, the kitchen or the bathroom or
just as standing object like the dining table, the kitchen Island or the bed.

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