Nautilus by Javier Senosiain
Magalli Mayorga and her family are the current resident of this dream-like house in Mexico City. It is an extraordinary giant snail.
The house taps into the natural climatic drama of Mexico City: during the rainy season, downpours crash into the Perspex skylights and are channelled around the roof and down the spiral to a fountain in the garden. But Senosiain has told the family not to worry about the earthquakes that periodically shock the city: constructed in one piece, from an iron lattice framework filled with cement, the house is unlikely to crack or crumble when shaken. -excerpt from [guardian]
Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect celebrated as a key exponent and explorer of so-called organic architecture. The work some have likened to that of Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Goff, Paolo Soleri, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Buckminster Fuller, Antoni Gaudi and Rudolf Steiner. He is currently a professor of architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). -from [wikipedia]
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Not really my idea of ideal home, but it will be an awesome house to live in with children. It seems so magical and 'organic' as the architect intended. I love the colourful stained glass window and the warmth the structure has. Rain will definitely add the feeling of living under water in this giant shell.
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