House

House (73)

Publications in this category are devoted to interesting and unusual designs of dovs all over the world. Some elements of construction are also considered.

Tree houses 252 photos

Today, everyone wants to be closer to nature, live in environmentally friendly homes, breathe fresh air and enjoy the rustle of leaves on trees. A simple solution to all these requests, a tree house, well, much closer to nature.

Maybe in childhood you had your own “staff”, a cozy shelter on a tree where you could imagine yourself as a pirate, a free tramp, and just a happy owner of your own hut. Dreams of adults are not so different from children's. Of course, building a house on a tree is a problem for many, but if there is a demand, there is a proposal, in England you can buy such apartments for only 200 thousand pounds, by the way, with all the amenities.

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Container houses 200 photos

As there, Bulgakov - that's just the housing issue spoiled them. The problem of budget housing has always been and will be very relevant. Container houses are just a partial solution to this problem..

The idea of building housing in freight containers is not new, especially in Europe and the United States. For such a house, it is not necessary to specifically manufacture individual blocks, we are talking mainly about used sea containers. Here's how this Poteet Architects Texas guesthouse is. Several issues are resolved at once - cheap recyclables, ecology, compact placement. There was even a whole direction of "container" architecture.

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The smallest houses 157 photos

Size is not important, quality is more important. Probably people who built the smallest houses came from this idea.. Although the motivation may be different, someone just decided to save on building materials, and someone to demonstrate their originality.

Who knows how many square meters a person needs to be happy? The author of this house gigantomania clearly does not suffer. You must admit that there is something fabulous and attractive in small houses.

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Houseboats 150 photos

It is so romantic to live on a small island, and if it could still move, it’s generally wonderful. Houseboats began to be built long ago, especially in those places where people depended on the water element.

This houseboat in Guaytekas, Chile is a kind of holiday home for fishermen working in the Aisen fjords, it was built by order of the fishing company Multiexport Foods. A good sanatorium in beautiful places in the south of Chile.

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Houses in the form of a tower 100 photos

The towers are different - water, television, sentinels, and in an earlier period of history, mostly serfs. Tower houses are not very suitable for housing, in the Middle Ages, they lived mainly princesses, who had to save the valiant knights.

But it seems that not everyone thinks so. In Utah, the two towers of the old elevator were converted into a pretty house. It is used as a suburban residence, proving that the absence of corners does not impede comfortable living.

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Disguised houses 108 photos

Some erect chic mansions on top of the hill, proudly showing them to the world. Others vice versa, masked houses are being built to hide your home from prying eyes, for different reasons. Another thing is interesting, in what ways they achieve this.

Swedish architects Alla Alberts and Hans Murman approached the issue in this way. In the photo you see their Juniper house disguised as the surrounding landscape.

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Mirror houses 73 photos

According to history, the first mirrors were made in Venice in 1279. The technology was complex and costly, until the Germans got down to business and greatly simplified the manufacturing process. In the era of Louis XIV, mirrors were mastered in France and off we went, the whole world was obsessed with mirrors.

Soon, the mirrors moved from the internal interiors to the external facades and mirror houses appeared, a figment of the fantasy of architects of the originals. The idea is used in a variety of options and in this collection some interesting projects of mirror architecture are collected.

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Transparent houses 121 photos

I wish you lived in a transparent house? Probably not for everyone. It is clear even in the forest or on the deserted coast of the ocean, where you can imagine yourself as a piece of nature, while being in the comfort of civilization.

And what about the city, living in a transparent house and feeling like a participant in a reality show, for example, in this large glass building in Amsterdam. Or maybe there really is something in this and the future for transparent houses?

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House in the cave 101 photos

Our very distant ancestors left the caves, but it seems that the memories of natural dwellings did not disappear here. This is one of the explanations why today people build houses in caves.

Although there are other reasons - there is no need to particularly spend money on construction, nature itself has done everything, it remains only to arrange everything beautifully, surf the Internet and rejoice that neighbors are not getting it. You can’t imagine a better place for privacy, probably because of these considerations they built such a house in a cave in Arkansas (USA).

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Home planes 51 photos

On average, about five hundred aircraft are written off per year. Not all of them go to scrap, some begin a new settled life somewhere outside the city. That's how airplanes appear at home..

It turns out that the aircraft that have acquired a new quality are much more than you might think. There are planes of the house in which they live, in the photo there is just one of them, the old Boeing 727, which has landed forever in Oregon.

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