Now, if it’s weird that you’re after, there’s some of that in architecture too. Quite a lot of it.
Closer to the “conventional normal” side of the extreme, we have the Helmer Castle, which is maybe a bit underwhelming as castles go, but hey, 2,000 square feet of residential living space in the form of a medieval tower and some auxiliary housing quarters. It was sold for $504,500 back in 2021, but is now valued at $533,800.
Then there’s the Keret House, an unorthodox, yet minimalist approach to housing found in Warsaw, Poland. While you wouldn’t call it a house in the traditional sense, it’s definitely a living space with just 48 inches (122 centimeters) in width, it’s suspended on stilts, and the narrowest point is just 28.3 inches (72 centimeters) wide.
Then there’s places like Eliphante Art House, Cornville, Arizona USA, Cappadocia Rock Houses, Central Anatolia, Turkey, and The Ancient Cliff House, Guyaju, China if you’re a bit of a druid and need a nature retreat.
But if that’s too much, you can have a mix of both, like this 100% solar-powered floating villa called the Lilypad Palm Beach Villa found in Pittwater Bay near Palm Beach, Australia.
Or better yet, don’t forget that this thing exists. And by this thing, it’s the world’s first luxury floating hotel that was built back in the 1980s, designed to watch the Great Barrier Reef. But now it’s in North Korea. Why? How? Read here.
