Tuesday, August 28, 2007

I had a good look around but couldn't pass this up, from an American magazine(CORE 77), about some Polish architects.



Like an inhabitable billboard, the Single Hauz – by Poland's front architects – proposes cantilevering domestic living space from a central mast. The house can then be installed above a variety of ground conditions, from the middle of a meadow to an urban core.
Personally... I'd put it in a lake.



The cool thing is that I've actually spent 11 months of my life staring up at some of the Herculean billboard structures in Los Angeles; they tower over intersections on streets from Venice to Sepulveda and often seem as large as houses.
But how much weight could a billboard carry?



Could you build a house up there?
Could you use the mast-and-cantilever model for other types of architectural structures, whether those are single-family houses – whole cul-de-sacs lined with modernist billboard homes! – or even restaurants and public libraries?
The Single Hauz shows how beautiful the effect could be.


For more projects by front architects, check out their website (though I couldn't find any information in English). www.frontarchitects.pl

1 comment:

genevieve said...

I want one in a creek next to a waterfall :)