What is an impossible house? It is a house that shouldn’t be allowed to exist considering the laws of nature.
These houses are designed on the extreme conditions of earth, and it shows that the architects of the 21st century can overcome any challenges.
Can you imagine how would it feel to live inside any of these houses? Let’s have a look.
#1. Cliff House (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Cliff House is situated extremely close the Atlantic ocean, and it hangs by a cliff.
From the hill, it looks like a normal house but if you look at it from the coast then you’ll see the impossible construction of this house as it hangs and feels like it’s almost about to fall off. The architects say that it is designed to “to heighten one’s experience of the landscape through a sense of vertigo and a sense of floating on the sea.”
It has a galvanized steel superstructure that keeps it stable, and it’s decorated by lush wooden panels.
#2. Hirafu (Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan)
This house is made of just two cubes that are placed on the top of each other over a hill. It looks like the cubes are about to slip down the slope.
But it holds on as it is made from reinforced concrete which is left raw inside, that not only keeps the house strong but also creates a unique look.
the top cube contains kitchen and living areas, while the bottom cube has the entrance and private quarters.
#3. House on the Cliff (Calpe, Alicante, Spain)
Situated among the rocks on an extremely steep slope, this House on the Cliff is actually just suspended over the slope. But even more stunning fact about this house is that it has an infinity swimming pool along with an expansive terrace on the ground level.
#4. Qiyunshan Tree House (Xiuning, China)
It’s not really a tree house. This 11-meters tall house is actually situated inside the forests of red cedar in China’s Anhui province.
Although, it is designed like a tree so that each block of this house faces a different direction like the branches of a tree. It has a spiral staircase at the center, which resembles the trunk of a tree. The rooms have wall-to-wall windows to provide a surround-view of the forest.
#5. Villa Escarpa (Luz, Algarve, Portugal)
An eccentric geometrical shape hanging over the slope of a steep hole – this is how this house would look from the outside. Not only this house fits in a very small plot.
The architects wanted to create a house that looked like it’s floating over the landscape and that is precisely what they did with this house by adding a special roof terrace.
#6. Slice and Fold House (Los Angeles, California, United States)
This house looks like a folded piece of origami napkin. The unique design of this house allows the natural sunlight to fill each and every room in this house.
It also has a roof deck which gives a panoramic view of the San Gabriel mountains nearby.
Most parts of the house are designed deep underground so that it can support this kind of structure hanging on a sharp slope.
#7. La Binocle (Eastern Townships Quebec, Canada)
Situated on the top of a mountain, this house has gigantic windows that offer a remarkable view. But the unique thing about this house is how they designed the overhanging roofs with a steep slope – so that no sunlight enters the house during the summer.
It is constructed firmly into the ground for extra stability, and adorned with burnt wood to enhance its appeal.
#8. Casa Del Acantilado (Salobreña, Granada, Spain)
At a steep incline of 42 degrees, this house perhaps shows the limits of the impossible. From the top, it looks like a dragon and waves of the ocean.
Most of the house is buried under the hill and some of it is hidden under a roof, it has a unique textured exterior and the interior is divided into two parts – an open space living area and private rooms.
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