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This is ... 10 Most Unique Houses in The World!

Author: Tabita Diela | Monday, October 15, 2012 | 8:23 pm



KOMPAS.com - Every architect would have its own source of ideas and ideals. The difference this idea to make homes of his work has its own characteristics.

However, some architects apparently still not satisfied only with its own characteristics. Some of them were more interested in creating homes that tend to weird and wonderful. Do not believe? Here are some unique homes in the world is more than just a "distinctively" an architect.

Voglreiter Auto Residence, Germany



German car-shaped house was designed by architect Mark Voglreiter. You can find it on the border of a nature reserve Gnigl ​​near Salzburg, Austria.

At first, the owner bought a corner house in the suburban type house in the 70s. He wanted to update and renovate the house and the whole structure.

In addition to the unique, the house also has technologies to reduce energy use. Heating systems and home insulation is specifically optimized energy-saving technologies.

Houses Spiral - Ramat Gan, Israel

Spiral shape in this house glance reminiscent of a water slide at the waterpark. Zvi Hecker is the architect behind this spiral house. He started construction in 1984 and finish in 1990.

The house is made of concrete spiral with plaster facade, pink glass, rubble and corrugated tin. It is located on the hillside, and seemed more looming than other houses in the vicinity.

Talk about the shape of this house, you will not find a roof over the porch. So, better not leave the house on a rainy day.

Houses Basket, Newark, USA

The house is a replica of the basket Longaberger Medium Market Basket. Only, if usually smaller replica, replica house Basket is 160 times bigger than the original.

Actually, the house is not a home basket. Basket-shaped building is the headquarters of Longaberger Company. The company itself that designed the exterior and interior of this building.

Construction process took more than two years. His first pole erection dilakukanpada October 1995 and employees began moving into this office on December 9, 1997.

Stone house in Guimaraes, Portugal

If you love cartoons 'Flintstones', you might dream of staying in this place. Existing homes in the area Guimaraes, Portugal, this looks amazing. This house seemed to blend with the natural state in dekitarnya.

Bubbles house in Cannes, France

Antti Lovag Bubbles design house in 1975 to a French businessman, Pierre Bernard. The house was sold in 1989 to a fashion designer, Pierre Cardin. The house of 1200 square meters contains ten large suites, each decorated by a different artist.

The Crooked House in Sopot, Poland

This building looks like the buildings in the cartoons. Having built in 2004, this building became the most photographed building in Poland.

The architect who designed the building design based on Jan Marcin Szancer painting and Per Dahlberg. Szancer is a painter and illustrator of children's books from Poland, while Per Dahlberg is a Swedish painter living in Sopot.

Tunnel Houses, Houston, Texas, USA

This house is not actually shaped tunnel. He is more akin to the black hole that sucked (reverse flow). However, the house is still unique. Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, both artists who worked on this house.

Houses Thin, Brazil

Unlike other unique houses are usually made as an art installation or the embodiment of the idea "crazy" an artist, Home Thin "born" because of economic hardship.

The house belongs to Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho in Madre de Deus, Brazil, this is only the width of one meter with a height of ten meters. To put the furniture into the house, Helenita family consisting of a husband, three children, mother and sister, he must unload their furniture-pairs. When designing this house, Helenita currently does not have a job.

The house upside Syzmbark, Poland

A designer once philanthropist Daniel Czapiewski, making house upside as statements about communism and the state of the world today. Making unique home that has a profound philosophy takes 114 days. This is five times longer than perkirannya because the workers had felt unwell while working.

Investigate a calibaration, the visitors pengunjungi home also feel the same pain with workers. Is this something to do with the occult? Or, just because the surroundings are less healthy? Until now, no one can prove it!

Hang Nga House Dalat, Vietnam

The house is also called the "Crazy House" by local people. Today, the house was used as a guess house. Although not stay, visitors can still come and go around the house with a low cost.

The architect Dang Viet Nga, equip the house with concrete stairs, hallways, and homes with unique themes like a giraffe drinking tea with concrete, and also the head of the fish that rose into the sky.

(Source: http://www.houzz.com)

Editor: Latif

Design "Mini House" for the Elderly

Author: Tabita Diela | Friday, November 30, 2012 | 13:00 pm

The house was built in the form of high-tech cottage that can fit in the back yard of a house. Cottage is only measuring 26 square meters, yet amazingly sophisticated.

KOMPAS.com - A Virginia-based company called N2Care of the United States offers an alternative provision of safe houses for elderly residents. The house was named MedCottage was designed by the company with the help of the Blacksburg Virginia Tech.

MedCottage is a "mini home" which was basically a portable hospital room. According to local law in Virginia, the home is included in the "temporary family health care structures". However, some people call it a granny pod or "grandma's house".

The company named N2Care the building of this house shaped high-tech cottage that can fit in the back yard of a house. Cottage is only measuring 26 square meters, yet amazingly sophisticated.

Currently, the granny pod is sold for approximately USD 816 million. However, after being fitted installation and all other purposes, you must pay Rp 1.2 billion.

A family in the United States have tried the house. Socorrito Baez-Page (56) and David Page (59) bought the house for mother named Viola Socorrito yag Baez.

"At first he (Viola) are reluctant to move, because he did not know how the shape of the house," said Rev. Kenneth J. Dupin, founder and CEO N2Care to nydailynews.com.

"When it goes into it, he is adjusting very well. This is a good example. Families can participate in life and keep her privacy," he said.

The house has the technology in almost every hospital room. The technology inside includes grip belt, floor with lights, cameras, and a defibrillator machine. The house is also equipped with water and electricity.

Not only that. The house also has a robotic specification capable of monitoring vital signs, level of contamination of the air, and also able to "communicate with the outside world".

"One of our fears is that when we get older, more and more isolated from our family," he said.

However, a "mini hospital", the older people do not need to worry. They can live side by side and still get what they need medical purposes.

Source: www.nydailynews.com
Editor: Latif

Rows Garage Juggle Being Complex "Mini House"

Author: M Latif | Friday, February 1st, 2013 | 14:36 ​​pm
Each "mini house" was built of 11, 5 square meters, consisting of a bed, kitchen and bathroom, as well as a tiny guest room for a small table and two chairs.


KOMPAS.com - the architects of the new thinking emerging in the form of new home design to help address the housing shortage figure in London, England.

The architects changed row useless garage into a small house. A row of garages at the edge of the highway turned into a tiny apartment for young professionals and people who do not have a new home.

To occupy this mini home, they only have to spend by 11 pounds, or around Rp 170,000 every week. The garages are located in the Lockner Estate, Dalston, East London. Garasai row that has long existed and is not used in the region.

"Home Land" Weather Resistant Disorders


Author: Tabita Diela | Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | 13:06 pm



Layer after layer of soil is added in the process, keeping the thickness of the wall to be able to make residents safe from various weather.


BURKINA FASO, KOMPAS.com - A small country called Burkina Faso near Ghana may not have the economic wealth. However, with the number of available raw materials, the villagers in the area Kassena Tiebele able to build a ghetto rich culture and beautiful architecturally.

Settlements are only the size of about one hectare. The building is made of clay, soil, jeramu, and dried cow dung by using sunlight.

"From Below", How "Mad" Enjoy the Interior


Author: Tabita Diela | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | 10:48 pm



Although the objects displayed was a common thing, but your brain will be "forced" to digest before recognizing these objects.


KOMPAS.com - View your home interior through photography-based social networking sites, such as Instagram or Twitter is no longer unique, however, enjoy a "different perspective" from the interior of the room of course is different.


The view to the top is well known and became very popular in our neighborhood, because this perspective of control and power.
- Michael Rohde

Ssstt ... These suppliers Luxury Homes in England Football Star!



Author: Tabita Diela | Monday, December 31, 2012 | 11:41 pm


David Hughes.


KOMPAS.com - Every lover of English football to know where his favorite world-class footballers stay. The top football players generally unwind in their luxurious homes after spending energy on the gridiron.

"Golden Triangle" where the athletes were staying between Alderley Edge, Knutsford and Wilmslow in Cheshire. The location is 20 miles from Manchester and 45 miles from Liverpool.

For 20 years, developer David Hughes has managed to provide a home for the players the ball. Harry Kewell started to use the services of Cristiano Ronaldo David Hughes when looking for a home.

"House of Shells" from Clamshell Millions!

Author: M Latif | Friday, January 25, 2013 | 15:13 pm


Plastering shells that cover from the front room, living room, and even bedroom.




KOMPAS.com - Although only seen once, Louise Cotton then interested. He even dared to spend money around 120,000 pounds to have one last house on the beach that look of the interior and exterior is covered by millions of shells.

Louise Cotton (48) growing near the house were plastered with millions of unique mussel. Plastering shells that cover from the front room, living room, and even bedroom.