PowerPoint Presentation Gravity Defying Homes

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Gravity Defying Homes
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Gravity Defying Homes

• Free Spirit Houses (British Columbia, Canada)
• These wooden spheres can be hung from any solid
  surface (tree, cliff, bridge, etc.) and are
  accessed by a spiral stairway or a short
  suspension bridge. A web of rope grasps onto a
  strong point, essentially replacing the
  foundation of a conventional building. You can
  anchor points on the top and bottom to prevent
  swinging or just let it loose and enjoy the ride.

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• Cactus House (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Cool-looking would be a good enough reason for
  us, but this housing design was created to
  maximize each apartments outdoor space and
  indoor sunlight. The splaying stack of slabs
  creates big terraces for gardening and the
  irregular shape allows sun to enter from multiple
  angles. Credit ucxarchitects

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• Floating Castle (Ukraine)
• Supported by a single cantilever, this mysterious
  levitating farm house belongs in a sci-fi flick.
  Its claimed to be an old bunker for the overload
  of mineral fertilizers but were sure theres a
  better back story . . . alien architects probably
  had a hand in it.
• Credit Microscopiq.com

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• Mushroom House (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• So disparate in materials and shapes this
  hodgepodge house looks like its been welded and
  glued together. But this is no hobo-construction,
  it was designed by the professor of architecture
  and interior design at the University of
  Cincinnati, Terry Brown, and was recently on the
  market for an estimated 400K.
• Credit jeremystump.com

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• Cube House (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Living in a tilted house is much easier than it
  looksjust ask the people living in these the
  Kijk-Kubus homes. Architect Piet Blom tipped a
  conventional house forty-five degrees and rested
  it upon a hexagon-shaped pole so that three sides
  face down and the other three face the sky. Each
  of the cube houses accommodates three floors a
  living space including a kitchen, study and
  bathroom, the middle floor houses bedrooms and
  the top is the pyramid room that can act like an
  attic or viewing deck. Credit Courtesy of
  kubuswoning.nl

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• Extreme Tree House (Irian Jana, Indonesia)
• The Korowai and Kombai clans carved out clearings
  of the remote part of the low-land forest to make
  way for these extreme tree houses. Unlike the
  typical tree houses that are nestled in branches,
  these dwellings are perched on the tip tops of
  the trees. But we arent sure whats scarier a
  strong gust of wind or the ladder they use to get
  up there.

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• Wozoco Apartments (Amsterdam-Osdorp, Holland)
• A zoning law and blueprint flub were the
  inspiration for this apartment complex. Dutch
  housing regulations require apartment
  construction to provide a certain amount of
  daylight to their tenantsbut MVRDV architects
  forgot to plan for that. Their solution? To hang
  thirteen of the 100 units off the north facade of
  the block. The ingenious design saves ground
  floor space and allows enough sunlight to enter
  the east or west facade.

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• Heliotrope Rotating House (Freiburg, Germany)
• Green to the extreme, Architect Rolf Disch built
  a solar powered home that rotates towards the
  warm sun in the winter and rotates back toward
  its well-insulated rear in the summer. A house
  that spins in circles doesnt sound too stable to
  us, but for the environment it is worth the risk.

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• Berman House (Joadja, Australia)
• Surrounded by lush vegetation and wild animals of
  the outback, this striking split-level cliff
  house hangs over a deep river cut-canyon. We
  dont know what makes this house more
  thrillingthe looking down from the plank-like
  living room or all those wild animals.
• Credit Collins Design

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• Single Hausz (Anywhere)
• Inspired by a city billboard, this rendering of
  the pole-supported Single Hausz only needs a few
  feet of land to hold a home. And it can be
  installed in a variety of ground conditions so it
  can relocate to wherever your heart desires.
  Credit www.frontarchitects.pl

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• Pod House (New Rochelle, New York)
• We assumed this oddball home was UFO-inspired,
  but it turns out the weed Queen Annes lace is
  where it got it's roots. Its thin stems support
  pods with interconnecting walkways.

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• Rozak House (Darwin, Australia)
• Its pretty gutsy to build a stilt-house in
  cyclone country, but these residents came
  prepared. Even if Mother Nature knocked their
  house off the grid, their solar power panels and
  rainwater collection systems would keep them
  self-sufficient. Take that, cyclone!
• Credit Corrugated IronBuilding on the Frontier

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• Upside-Down House (Syzmbark, Poland)
• This upside down design seems totally
  nonsensicalbut that is exactly the message the
  Polish philanthropist and designer, Daniel
  Czapiewski, was trying to send. The unstable and
  backward construction was built as a social
  commentary on Polands former Communist era. The
  monument is worth a trip be it for a lesson in
  history or balance.
• Credit Freshome.com