Category: Unusual Homes

When silos meet containers!

Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa – Citiq One doesn’t need to look hard to find unused, unloved buildings in the older parts of our cities.  Warehouses have become sought after properties with their thick walls and high ceilings while other, less desirable properties are often left to slowly decay. If you’ve ever been close up and […]

Chongwe River House

Chongwe River House

 Chongwe River – Zambia This four bedroomed house is built around a frame of natural wood creating the organic shapes that were then plastered. Continuing the all natural theme, all furniture in the sitting are was carved from a single fallen winterthorn tree. Coloured pebbles taken from the river are used to decorate the ceilings. The home is totally […]

Earth House – An Ode to Yoon Dong-joo

Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea – Byoungsoo Cho Site area:     660m2 Floor Area:    32.49m2 Project Year:     2008-2009 Photography:     Wooseop Hwang, Yong Gwan Kim It would seem odd to think of a 14m x 7m concrete box set deep in the ground as a ‘house of the sky’ and yet it is! The tiny home […]

Living Underground

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Historical evidence suggests humans have been living underground for millennia, first in caves and then later in shallow excavations roofed with sticks, mud and thatch. Just as above-ground homes vary greatly in their construction and appearance, so do underground homes.  Types include constructed caves, culvert homes, earth berm dwellings, elevational dwellings and atrium homes. And […]

Floating House

Ontario, Canada – MOS Architects Built area: 186 sqm Year built: 2005 Photography: Florian Holzherr Completed in 2005, this home, while fixed to the shore, literally floats on pontoons in the waters of Lake Huron, Canada. The project was done as a part of a master plan for the area. The location – a lake […]

Rounded in every sense…

Domespace

Anywhere you’d like it – Domespace  France More years ago than I care to remember, I bought my first CitroĂ«n car, a DS21 Goddess. The innovation was mind-boggling.  In following years I owned various French cars finding them all idiosyncratic but delightful to drive.  But over time, global conformity set in and the innovation died. […]

Life in a Fishbowl

Roppongi (Tokyo) Japan  –  Mejiro Studios Built area:     87.5m2  (945 sq. ft.) This is definitely a home for very confident people.  The entire focus of the home is the bathroom (or wash-room) as they are thought of in Japan.  Fully walled in glass, the bathroom sits in the centre of the home which is itself, a single […]