Happy Not For Sale Wednesday! And here we see a house located somewhere-or-other, which we are supposed to believe small children live in. The house might be in Spain. Because of the great amounts of glass used, and the small children who may or may not live there, the homeowners go through several gallons of Windex (or Bindex, the Spanish equivalent) each day.
Look! Here we see the homeowner doing his daily ammonia-based cleaner routine. He’s so accustomed to spritzing every single surface that he’s even Windexing the plants which, ironically, are the only thing in the entire house that don’t need to be de-smudged daily:
Found by: inalaska2. More photos here. There might be more information on this pile of pixels, which I believe is the official website of the people who made this, but I took one glance at its Mario-style graphics and ran away.
Loveliest comment, by Anodean: Has anyone else felt a pervasive sense of sadness within some of these glass walled monstros concept homes?
Sort of a “Sunny Despair” effect, as though the relentless natural light is supposed to negate the essential absence of any human emotional engagement. Kids? Guests? Neighbors? Comfortable repose? Nah – just an increasingly ghostlike existence dedicated to cleaning the windows and watering the roof, the makers’ stock response of “What wrong with you? It so sunny!” echoing from the surfaces as the unfortunate inhabitant begins to fade like an old glass photographic plate.
Hmm. Perhaps not all haunted houses depend upon darkness.
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It reminds me of a modular dollhouse my sister had back in the seventies. Coloured acrylic panels that slotted together, lots of meaningless staircases…I was fascinatd by it. There’s lots of eco-sensibility going on here, but doesn’t it look like the ceilings are made of ?plywood ?pre-formed concrete? That’s a little scary. yeah, just the house for small children and dogs!
I was wondering exactly how a house could be a “bio-house” with no insulation on the walls, until I saw the word “Spain”. Ah. No winter to speak of.
Okay Sarah, people in glass houses should never throw…oh, never mind.
People living in glass houses shouldn’t walk around naked……
…without a peeping charge.
That bathroom looks straight out of a penitentiary!! Got to think with all the cement it stays relatively cool in the summer, maybe?
I’m sensing a disturbing evolutionary trend here. I believe this is just the beginning- the stairs are slowly becoming less distinct. In this example, much like our own appendix, the risers are shrunken back, serving little to no function, yielding to a ramp towards the top. If we look at the fully matured version of this house, http://lovelylisting.com/2010/04/21/peeping-at-the-czechs/ one will find that the risers have been selected out entirely, leaving the fully evolved house with nothing more than a slick sliding surface which just suggests a linkage between floors.
And like our own appendix, sometimes the risers get infected and have to be removed from an unevolved house to prevent the spread of disease, as can be seen in this case: http://lovelylisting.com/2010/06/13/funny-real-estate-that-rumpus-room-looks-dangerous/
Were it not for the adept skill of the surgeons/carpenters, this house could very well have succumbed to an infection that would have leveled it!
there does seem to be simularities between the Polish house and this one.
both made me wish I could own them. but with the spanish one. i’d have to put a post at the one corner not being supported…IMHO…. fully enough. and paint it a bright colour.
A retired bus driver?
Has anyone else felt a pervasive sense of sadness within some of these glass walled
monstrosconcept homes?Sort of a “Sunny Despair” effect, as though the relentless natural light is supposed to negate the essential absence of any human emotional engagement. Kids? Guests? Neighbors? Comfortable repose? Nah – just an increasingly ghostlike existence dedicated to cleaning the windows and watering the roof, the makers’ stock response of “What wrong with you? It so sunny!” echoing from the surfaces as the unfortunate inhabitant begins to fade like an old glass photographic plate.
Hmm. Perhaps not all haunted houses depend upon darkness.
You’ve been spending all your spare time at Unhappy Hipsters, haven’t you?
Oh. My. Lord.
Sorry, still stunned. All I got here is “Humma hamma hamma” with that awful sense that “No, it’s not just me, but maybe it would be better if it were.” Um. Can’t write, still stuck in the humma hamma hamma effect…
Poetic, and accurate.
“Hmm. Perhaps not all haunted houses depend upon darkness.”
Have you seen the remake of “Thirteen Ghosts?”
Most soul crushing comment ever.
Also, is it just me, or does the bathroom look like the bathroom at a campground somewhere in middle America circa 1963?
Okay, I confess: I really like it. And that’s kind of weird, because I’m more the “cute little cottage, centuries-old farmhouse, Craftsman bungalow” type.
I’m more the “cute little cottage, centuries old farmhouse, Craftsman bungalow” type too and I am not wild about this house.
So, it is weird that you like it.
I was afraid of that.
Ha! I knew I’d seen this house featured in Dwell Magazine. Here’s the article:
http://www.dwell.com/articles/it-takes-a-villa.html
It’s in Llers, Spain (an hour outside Barcelona). It’s called the Villa Bio. It has the strange layout because the piece of land is really small and they were trying to maximize space. Interesting article, well worth a read.
All your Contemporary Villa Bio House are belong to us.
Interesting, but the shower stall looks like the result of an explosion at a submarine-based Pez factory.
The inside of the whole house looks like an unfinished basement. Very gloomy…
Especially that bathroom. I like the comment above about a pez factory! I object to all the glass and how hot it must get in summer. I’d feel like the world was looking in my house at me.
I am embarassed (although not enough, clearly) to admit that my biggest issue with this house is that I wouldn’t be able to run around naked without shocking (and/or killing) the neighbors. :\
You wouldn’t be able to do anything naked. Have you seen the bedroom? Floor-to-ceiling windows make good family planning.
In this week’s episode of Sliders, our heroes travel to a timeline where plants have taken over and grow people in greenhouses.
oh FTW!!
A Sliders reference? MADE of awesome.
Life in a fishbowl? So not for me.
For me, my first thought was, “Yeah, that just gives new meaning to the phrase, ‘Kids, don’t play ball in then house!’” Eek.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this looks as if the hydroponic roof garden is gradually leaching its way through the ceiling? IMHO, people who live in glass houses have enough problems w/o covering their roofs with water and whatever that green shrubby-looking stuff is.
from the linked site: “This modern villa is a sample of natural fashionable construction created of concrete but with a pretty intriguing shape and extraordinarily usual features that changes its look entirely.” usually. so there.
The whole thing is just so….. sterile? cold? blank No thanks: I can admire this kind of thing as artistic, but I would NOT wanna live in one of these. Even as a weekend getaway, I’d want at least some damn curtains and carpets!
At first I thought fishbowl but then decided Hamsters.
The original owner had this house built because he wanted to be the first to throw stones.