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Sunday, December 28, 2014

This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin

Source: Gizmodo.com

This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin

The Alps are littered with hidden buildings, from World War II-era bunkers to mansions built below ground to skirt building regulations. But here's an entirely new addition: A "rock" installed on a boulder-strewn slope that's hiding a cozy one-person cabin.

You'd almost certainly miss it if you were driving by. If you were hiking, maybe you'd notice the odd square window sticking out like a sore thumb against the organic shapes around it, or maybe you'd pass it by, too. You certainly wouldn't guess that inside its rough, grey facsimile of stone you'd find a perfectly-detailed wooden cabin, complete with a small bed, a fold-down table, a window, and even a fireplace.
This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin

It's architectural camouflage, Alpine-style, and according the architects who designed it as part of a residency at a sculpture park—the Swiss studio Bureau A—it was inspired by the Swiss "strong tradition of observing the Alps, living with them, hiding inside them."
Bureau A calls their folly "Antoine," the name of the main character in the novel Derborence by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. In the book, Antoine gets trapped in a landslide in an Alpine valley and actually ends up living under the rocks for seven weeks, miraculously surviving. It was designed as part of a residency program at an open-air sculpture park in Verbier, Switzerland, where Bureau A spent six weeks designing and fabricating the boulder in the shop.

This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin
Most importantly, can anyone sleep in it? Are they taking reservations?! Oddly enough, neither the architects nor the sculpture park in Verbier mention whether you can stay over. Though there is this cryptic bit extracted from the architect's statement describing Antoine as a place "somewhat subversive in its use where one can freely enter and hide." Which seems like a cryptic way of saying that if you can find it, you can use it. A few more photos follow.
 This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin
This Fake Boulder In the Alps Is Actually a Tiny, Perfect Cabin


Impressively skilled brick layers, Vault contructiĆ³n.

Friday, July 19, 2013

A luxury mansion in Indonesia



             This residential building is located in the city-millionaire Tangerang, Indonesia. The total area of the project is 524 sq.m. The house is located in a quiet area and surrounded by lush vegetation. Despite the fact that this city residence, outside it is made in a tropical style, but inside we discover its urban character with exposed brick walls, glass walls and high ceilings.




This house is characterized by an open floor plan, a small wall separates the living room from the dining room and kitchen. A wooden staircase leads upstairs, where the study is presented, and even higher - a sleeping area.

Sunday, April 28, 2013


Amazing house in the forrest