Not your average home
By: Isidora and Tomer Fridman
Looking like something between an animal and machine, Robert Bruno constructed this Steel House. Perched atop a bluff near Lubbock, Texas, the house sits on four skinny leg. Made from steel and highly recyclable materials, this is one trippy house.
The Nautilus in Mexico City was completed in 2006 by architect Javier Sensonian of Arquitectura Orgánica. Built for a young family who wanted to feel more integrated with nature, this property is filled with lush vegetation. Practicing what he calls, “Bio-architecture,” Sensonian has designed buildings shaped like snakes, whales and other living things.
Although it looks like a giant eye ball suspended from the forest, this tree house known as Free Spirit Spheres, certainly gets some attention. Made by Tom and Rosy Chudleigh from British Columbia, the “tree houses for adults” are handmade from local wood. Recommended for meditation, photography, canopy research, leisure, wildlife watching and other activities, and they can be ordered fully loaded with plumbing, electricity and insulation. You can even rent these guys.
This southwestern house, know as the 222 House, is entirely sustainable. According to designers Future Systems, “The soft, organic form of the building is designed to melt into the rugged grass and gorse landscape, the roof and sides of the house being turfed with local vegetation.”
Completed in 1994, the bathroom and kitchen are prefabricated pods that were lifted into the site during construction. The home needs little energy input due to the natural insulation of the ground.
