Can you guess who by?

Offbeat favorite, Antonino Cardillo of course. Does this fellow ever stop creating new ideas?

This house, due to be completed by the year’s end, is a very cool new design from Cardillio, my favorite part possibly being how it appears to merge with the water. Check out the lake setting…

“Outside, to the south, the living area extends its own teak flooring so as to lap the swimming pool. Beyond the mirror of water, in an ambiguous and inaccessible place, a portico measures and interprets the landscape. To the north of the glass room, a textile parabola, stretched between the two edges of the building, shades the external dining area. Lastly, the eccentric collocation of a tower for the stairs subverts the symmetrical composition of the building and determines oblique perceptions of its internal spaces, thus becoming the essential key to a reading of the architectonic text.”

 

Kind of luscious no? The house is two levels; each distinct, “A compact basement in travertine comprises the hall and bedroom on whose terrace is set a high, luminous living room, articulated by a slender white metal structure. This at the same time designs the textures of the perimetral glass surfaces. The landscape, from within, is thus broken up into myriad quadrants and undergoes an analytical process of reconstruction.”

To see more images and to read more about this home visit World Architecture News.

If you like this house, you can see more of Cardillio’s work at:

• Flamenco y arquitectura
• Antonino Cardillo’s Vaulted House
• Birnbeck Island
• Antonino Cardillo
• Antonino Cardillo: Take Two

[images via Antonino Cardillo]

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Max’s House in a Small Lake

Here’s a look and if you’ve been there give me the scoop.

Reddit has a funny thread about this house. Although it’s not something I’d normally do here I’m posting it:

Fellow number one:  “A very short-sighted place to build. Those are clearly very young rocks, and whatever will happen to the house as they grow?”

Fellow number two: “Rocks don’t grow like plants. These rocks are actually the result of the ground sinking down, due to the erosion of the softer sedimentary rocks forming the ground. The foundation of the house probably blocks this erosion process. So it’s unlikely that the house gets crushed. The house might get flooded though… And also, I wouldn’t say these rocks are young, since their surfaces look fairly polished.”

Fellow number one: “good god man. Humor, do you grok it?!”

I don’t know why but this little banter cracked me up. I like the house but still think it looks unreal.  What do you think? 

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Real or Fake: The House Between Two Rocks