Of course, it is absolutely a glass house is not comfortable for every person.
Some people so love nature that they are ready for her to abandon the deaf walls and privacy.
How to look like a materialized dream of this kind? Different, of course. Always very impressive, what we offer you to make sure. But anyway, a bathroom, toilet, bedroom need and in a glass house. How do the inhabitants of the transparent walls to solve everyday issues? See and read our material.
1. England, London
The neighbors of the owners of this glass house – Karl Marx and novelist George Eliot. No, this is not a joke. Just the house is in Highgate cemetery — in its old part, though behind the fence. The first dwelling house on this land appeared in the 1970s, when the administration of the cemetery has sold the derelict plot on the boundary with public lands to get additional income.
That house stood for 30 years and fell into disrepair. The new owner decided not to rebuild and to put the other more modern, but historic cemetery next door, and the status of protected area obliged the architects not to disturb the existing landscape. The glass house — and it even has floors made of glass — made town planning Board. Today in the house on the numerous tombs a large family living. In opening prospects owners do not find anything terrible. On the contrary — I say soothes.
2. Australia, Melbourne
The three-storey house architect Feras Gabriel Ruffulo living room is also made of glass. And Feras went on — it was attached to a glass swimming pool. The view was mesmerizing. This house is a kind of technological experiment. The architect has set a goal to build a building exclusively for their concrete and glass. The goal is achieved 90% — something all the same was given to wood and metal. But very little!
There’s no paint, no plaster, no tile, no floor Board. No ordinary door frames and doors. Living room with swimming pool located on the top floor, Glass roof if necessary, expanded.
3. France, Paris
This French house the architects designed in the form of three glass cubes. Design is not only original but also extremely rational: the house is built between two tall buildings with conventional walls is doomed to forever be in the shadows. And thanks to the glass it gets sunlight.
In the evening the owners close the wall metal shutters with a pattern — those are made by folding like an accordion. Openwork facade, illuminated from the inside, is inconspicuous day house the main star of the streets.
4. Canada, West Vancouver
There is the dining room unusual home near the English Bay in West Vancouver. On the one hand, the building built into the hill on the other — fully glazed, so every room is visible or the ocean, or a forest with rocks. Together, the architect Nigel Parish’s response to the request of the family of the businessman “to move out of the city closer to nature.” Closer, so close!
The floors in this house, the mirror is made of polished cement. Reflection and glare make the space unlimited. However, it is not a little — 427 square meters, five bedrooms, five bathrooms. The curtains are never provided, even in the bathroom and the bedroom — still Windows of these rooms overlook the wild, an indoor piece of wood.
5. Ireland, Dublin
The couple bought the Georgian-style mansion, wanted to make it big Sunny living room. But found that building 1817 building cannot be rebuilt from the inside so as to form an open space. Then the designer Rozin Lafferty — part-time, daughter-in-law of the owners — came up to build a separate living area in the backyard.
And glass — not too discordant with the historical walls and did not block access to sunlight on the first floor. And once the old house is distinguished by classic shapes, the living room is also designed to match. Warm floors in the Annex you can use it all year round.
6. Italy, Vicenza
Glass, of course, can be not only the house — utility room too. This unusual pavilion is a private space of the home owner, a businessman from the province of Vicenza. Perhaps it can be called a rest room: here the entrepreneur reads, listens to music in solitude and watching the stars at night.
The penalty of a Studio with stove half recessed into the ground. It is made to the construction were not allocated in the area — the surrounding forest should remain intact. Thanks to the Windows along the perimeter and glass ceiling, there is always a lot of light in the winter and summer. Because of this the room seems twice as spacious. And foliage at eye level gives the impression that lie on the lawn under the trees.
7. Russia, Moscow
In Russia houses of glass — exotic, in pursuit of the sun and the feeling of “nature at arm’s length” architects often use panoramic Windows (huge Windows in the floor). But there are more and bolder projects.
For example, in a separate glass cube dining room. All the other houses in the village built in the classical style, and only for this Villa, owned by the owner of the trade network, made an exception. In the dining room, transparent glass made not only the walls and the ceiling, but the floor under them to see the grass.
8. Germany, Hildesheim
Florists Beate and Peter Kremkau also live in a glass house. In the greenhouse, to be precise: the couple engaged in gardening spaces and constantly grow a variety of mostly Mediterranean plants for their projects. Flora requires care, so Beate and Peter, in any case, have most of the time to spend in the greenhouse. So what really not to do inside her house?
The residential part is located in the centre of this extraordinary building and is 150 meters from 360. On the first floor there are three bedrooms, two bathrooms and kitchen on top — a spacious terrace with sun loungers, a favorite place for the whole family. The project was implemented in 1998 and will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary. In the greenhouse, grown up son and daughter florists, and, according to Beate, after moving to the Kingdom of plants the children stopped hurting.
9. Peru, 100 miles from Lima
The owners of this building on the coast asked architect Martin Dulanto to make housing on the one hand modern, and on the other integrated into the natural environment. Martin thought about it and proposed to make the walls glass, and the borders, respectively, of the invisible. Idea customers liked it, but some of the rooms they asked to still hide from prying eyes.
In the end, the master bedroom, two bathrooms and one living room “went underground” in the basement. “Show” exhibited a large living room, dining room and terrace. Guest bedroom also can be seen through, but there are blinds and Roman blinds.
10. Japan, Hiroshima
Architects Makoto Tanijiri and AI Yoshida designed the house that was supposed to be “a continuation of the hill” — that was the desire of the customers. From afar it seems that this is not a house at all, but a Mirage, a haze under the canopy.
The transparent walls of the building are made of durable acrylic, inside it is zoned with the “light hints” mesh, perforated metal sheets, pieces of furniture. Bathroom and toilet are hidden in the basement, and the kitchen is half recessed into the ground.
