In Pictures: The Most Unusual Places People Call Home
The Quint brings you 16 oddly designed or absurd make-shift homes around the world.
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From an airplane home, no literally a home that looks like an airplane to living inside a crocodile. Not literally, silly! Just a house designed like crocodile.
The Quint brings you 16 such seriously weird homes:
A house built on a rock on the river Drina is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160km from the capital Belgrade. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter.
A statue is pictured in front of a pyramid house in the village of Miziara, northern Lebanon. Miziara prides itself on building residential homes that resemble ancient Greek temples and Egyptian ruins.
The Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house is seen in Cosswiller in the Alsacian countryside near Strasbourg, Eastern France. The house is designed as a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun’s movements to provide shade during the summer months, keeping the inside temperature cool, and during Fall, Winter and Spring sunlight enters the large windows as the sun’s position is lower in the sky, thus warming the living space.
Liu Lingchao, 38, carries his makeshift dwelling as he walks along a road in Shapu township of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. With bamboo, plastic bags and bed sheets, Liu made himself a 1.5-metre-wide, 2-metre-high, “portable room” weighing about 60 kg (132 lb), to carry with him as he walks an average of 20 kilometres everyday.
Brazilian artists Tiago Primo (top) and his brother Gabriel hang out at a wall in Rio de Janeiro July 8, 2009. The bizarre vertical “house” built on a climbing wall by Brazilian artists has been drawing the attention of thousands who walk by the installation in Rio de Janeiro’s downtown neighbourhood.
General view of a tree-house in Le Pian Medoc, southwestern France. The Natura Cabana company rents various cabins perched in the trees for ecological holidays.
Benito Hernandez stands outside his home near San Jose de Las Piedras in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila. For over 30 years, Hernandez, his wife Santa Martha de la Cruz Villarreal and their family have lived in an odd sun-dried brick home with a huge 40 metre (131 feet) diameter rock used as a roof.
Potential buyers stand with an agent on the balcony of a three-bedroom home made from four old shipping containers in Sydney. The oddly designed house is priced at around USD $100,000.
A Bulgarian woman looks inside her wine vat home in Socuellamos, central Spain. About 40 people living in this makeshift camp are ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who came to the vineyards of Socuellamos to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest.
Thierry Atta sweeps the courtyard of his house built in the shape of a crocodile in Ivory Coast’s Capital – Abidjan. Atta was an apprentice of the artist Moussa Kalo who designed and built the house but died two months ago.
A Tumbleweed brand Cypress 24 model Tiny House is towed down the highway near Boulder, Colorado. The Tiny House Movement started some years ago with people around the world building really small living spaces and loving their new simplified lives.
A house under construction which is in the shape of an ancient Greek temple like the one in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, is pictured in the village of Miziara, northern Lebanon.
A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province April 11, 2014. The illegal construction, which takes up an area of about 40 square metres, was built 10 years ago.
A view of about 70 domes houses, which were built by US based Domes for the World, for villagers who lost their houses to last year’s earthquake in Sumberharjo village, near Indonesia’s ancient city of Yogyakarta.
A man passes a house built upside-down in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The house was constructed as an attraction for local residents and tourists.
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Published: 09 Jun 2015,10:06 AM IST