Above is the proposed exterior and below is an interior shot. If you took biology in school, you’ll recognize the shapes and designs based on cellular components – which is so unique and really fun to see.

Being a science major in college, I’m way excited to see the finished results. The project is noted to be completed in 2009 – until then we wait.

Read more about the project at Live Science.

[Images via Live Science]

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Cellular Structure

I guess this is a few years old, but it’s still sooooo worth seeing. It’s an art creation – a farmhouse turned human sized dollhouse. Amazing. I love dollhouses, especially odd ones, so this is completely spectacular. I just can’t believe I never saw it before.

This Life-Size Dollhouse by Heather Benning was posted at Ohdeedoh. Not only can you see more of this incredible biggie sized dollhouse at Ohdeedoh, but you can see their nice collection of all things dollhouses – go now.

Thanks to Marye – who always sends me lovely links, but this one is extra special so kisses to her.

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OMG!!!

[Found at Utility Fog Blog - see all the random weirdness here if you dare]

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Some home owner with WAY too much free time & paint did this…

Did you make a guess yet?

What sort of structure will it be? Let’s see…

Strawberry structures! Here’s the deal. I’ve been sort of obsessing over the Strawberry Fields Forever cover by Ben Harper; for like a week. This is odd because:

1. I usually hate covers (I like maybe five – ten cover tunes period).
2. It’s not like I hadn’t heard this song before. I heard it when it first came out a LONG time ago. In fact, I really like I Am Sam, the movie it comes from.
3. As far as Beatles tunes go, SFF rates fairly low on my list of favorites. I love the Beatles, but was never into this particular song one way or the other.

I have issues.

I figured this would make a good classic post though, so here we go; some offbeat classic strawberry structures…

To learn more about these strawberry structures, or to see even more fruity structures, visit the original Offbeat Homes post, Sweet Fruity Structures.

As an extra treat, here’s the album version of my song obsession, just in case you need to hear it. There are some live versions floating around too, but oddly, I don’t enjoy them.

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Classic Offbeat Homes: No one I think is in my tree…

Somehow I don’t think my son, my records, and I would all fit in there. Still, this is pretty neat-o. This residential car-house in Austria is just 300 sq meters, but cost (get this) 1 million euros. In case you can’t tell, this little home was inspired by the VW Beetle, and has some eco-features too. It’s really hard to imagine how this looks on the inside. I have to hunt around for some interior images.

The entire World’s Wildest Architecture slideshow is worth seeing. They have a couple structures that I don’t think qualify as “wild” like the Guggenheim Museum – (still cool though). Overall though, it’s a great offbeat show with structures like Casa Batllo, the good old Haines Shoe House, Longaberger, and more.

[image via: World's Wildest Architecture]

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VW Beetle Inspired Home

[photo via: UT]

Personally I like that tree camouflage house that was sweeping the web last year, the one on every architect and design site known to man. I never showed it here, mainly because it was everywhere -overkill. That said, it’s a super slick home, and being that it was everywhere, I can’t remember where I first saw it, but one place I did see it was freshome, which is a blog I adore so I’ll send you there to see more of this lovely, and truly camouflaged house.

My most favorite camouflage house is the Camouflage House by Johnsen Schmaling Architects that I covered here at Offbeat last September.

[photo via: Johnsen Schmaling Architects]

I was obsessed with this home, actually I still am. I love it. Read all about this amazingly beautiful home and see more photos (in case you missed it the first time around).

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Camouflaged Homes

From Superuse.org:

“Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling. The site allows you to post items at various scales within the reuse-topic. All examples of small commodities, furniture, interiors, buildings and reuse on urban scale are welcomed. Next to exhibiting applications, we promote the development of knowledge on the subject by starting up discussions, adding historical background and allowing user comments.”

Here’s one amazing find – the recycled house – made from an airplane! Too spiffy for words.

There’s an awesome story about this home, with room layout descriptions, reasoning, and more. You should read it.

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The Ultimate in Recycled Homes

I’d actually rather live in something a little more sweet, like a blackberry for instance.
See more kooky homes at Funny Real Estate Photos at eBestAgent (lots of funny stuff).

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How would you like to live in this vegetable?

Check out these two examples – I gravitated to the home posts (are you shocked) but couldn’t resist the bird photo. 

Shocking view

Lucy in the sky

I also really adore Straw hat, happy bag, Tick tock, and Zippy, and almost all the architecture posts are cool. The only problem is that now Cedar and I are looking everywhere for faces. Or, maybe that’s not such a bad deal.

Check it out – Faces in Places.

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Best Site of the Week for Touring – Faces in Places

Via Heike Schlauch & Robert Fabach

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The best things in life are sometimes so simple…