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.
At a certain angle, the house is almost completely invisible. The whole chip in the wallpaper with pictures of juniper, which grows around the building.
This house in the Italian Alps was not pasted over with anything, it was simply planted with climbing plants, and nature did the trick.
The idea, of course, is not original, but the main thing is the result.
To make a disguised house, different methods are suitable. Australian architecture firm Maddison Architects decided to hide the house with an original triangular facade.
Thanks to the inclined relief, the idea was a success. The diagonal front part of the building successfully concealed the real dimensions of the house.
Although the building is in the shade, it is light and airy in the middle.
Outwardly masked house does not attract much attention, but with external modesty, the interior is modern and comfortable.
From far away in this woodpile nobody will suspect a comfortable studio.
In this way, an employee of the entertainment industry Hans Lieberg decided to disguise the house.
And so in San Sebastiano using mirror panels masked a public toilet. How those in need find it remains a mystery.
But the safest place is to hide under the ground. This disguised house you definitely will not find without a helicopter. And this is not some kind of dugout, but a real villa in Greece, called the house of Aloni.
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If to disguise, then seriously. Kendrick Bangs architect Kellogg built a disguised home in California, which covers an area of 450 square meters. meters. The non-standard building blends perfectly with the surrounding area.
Evaluate how the house looks from different angles and fragments of the interior.
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William Morgan House in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
Finding a building is not so easy, you think, a hill with eyes.
But in the middle of the disguised house in the dune is very cozy, by the way, it is called Duna House. The small building actually has two floors, a living room with a kitchen on the first, a bathroom and a bedroom on the second, with the entrance from the second tier. From the eyes of the windows offers a beautiful view of the ocean. Yes, in such a house you can “hide” for a long time.
This a unique disguised house located in Utah, called the Cave Palace Ranch.
The cave in the rock of the red breed was formed naturally, and the architects simply arranged it under a cozy dwelling with all the amenities. The house has its own generator, well and even solar panels.
In Greece, a harsh rock on the coast of the Aegean Sea inspired the architects of OPA Works studio to develop a project for such an original house. The building is completely recessed into the rock, so it is practically not noticeable from the surface.
The completely transparent front panel overlooks the sea, so that in the middle of the building everything is bathed in sea glare. On the upper tier there is a pool with a reinforced glass bottom. You could say the house is disguised as a seascape.
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Villa Vals in the Swiss Alps, a disguised house that can only be seen from the foot of the mountain. Combined original eclectic design with a full range of modern engineering communications.
The project of architect Robert Konecny, masked house OUTrial House in Greater Poland Voivodeship.
The building in the clearing, more precisely under the clearing, occupies 180 square meters. meters and is a wonderful example of modern postmodernism.
Architects successfully used the geography of the site with a small difference in elevation
By the way, in this house, in addition to living quarters, there is also a recording studio. A good place to hide not only from prying eyes, but also ears.
Disguised house in Australia near Melbourne can only be seen from a bird's eye view.
The unique project was developed by Australian architect Denton Marshall in 1983.
This disguised house in California it will be very difficult to find. Architect Garrett Carlson successfully used the terrain and carefully designed everything, because it was not for nothing that he devoted many years to the study of landscape architecture.
Garrett Carlson's dream was to build a house that completely merges with the surrounding countryside. In this regard, his idea was a success, the building cannot be considered until you come close to him. The architect used the entire palette of metal, wood, concrete and glass to create modern comfortable conditions, but outwardly this is not noticeable. It seems like the house grew here with trees. In these photos in the gallery are fragments of the realized dream of Garrett Carlson.
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A camouflaged eco-house between two hills in Brazil. The structure is supported on concrete piles. The building is like a bridge between two hills. The structure is strengthened by steel floors, wooden cells are made on them, which make up the roof of the building, planted with vegetation.
You can hide a house not only underground in nature or in forest thickets, but also in the city. This strict mansion, a disguised house designed by the architectural bureau Teatum + Teatum
The building is built into the narrow well of the backyard.
Several bedrooms and a living room are located around the central atrium. The diffused light reflected by the walls creates a special atmosphere.
Openwork patterns are created on the wings using laser cutting.
There is not only a disguised house, but also a garage. The owners of the mansion in the city of San Francisco decided to make a garage from a bay window, however, not with the goal of hiding it, but simply to preserve the facade of a beautiful Victorian house. So, from a one-room apartment and a warehouse, which were on the ground floor, we got a spacious garage, which did not affect the exterior of the building.
On this photo house with a secret in Florida. In fact, this house was once a hangar, and a spacious lawn, taxiway. When the hangar was converted into a residential building, the owners, it is not known for what reason, decided to make a garage on the ground floor with gates disguised as the facade of the house.
The owner of the mansion in London to make a disguised garage was prompted by the desire to save space on his plot. Underground parking with an elevator in the style of spy blockbusters, the car drives into the yard and disappears. The idea is good, but probably expensive.
There are different circumstances, I hope the masking methods presented in this collection will be useful to you.
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