So what happens when you tackle “an exercise in making as little house as possible”? This. And it is beautiful.
It’s part of what’s essentially a Disney World for architects called “Solo Houses”: residences designed by hot up-and-coming firms and built in Matarraña, Spain. Blink and it looks (a lot) like Southern California.
This “Solo Houses” piece is the product of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, a Belgian firm. The footprint of the residence only takes up a tiny sliver of the 90,000-square-meter lot — it’s 550 square meters, or about 6,000 square feet. The building is circular, with interior spaces marked off by glass walls beneath the round roof. In the middle is a patio and pool. The only thing we don’t like? Those curtains, which look like they were picked up at IKEA and hung without seeing the underside of an iron. Otherwise: Somebody put it on Airbnb so we can book ourselves a stay.
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