SuperAngular: 'Klein Bottle house'27. Jan2012
Kein Bottle house, located the vicinity of Melbourne city, Australia takes its name from Klein Bottle, which is the name for a non-orientable surface similar with Moebius strip but without borders. Klein suface was first described by the mathematician Felix Klein in 1882.
There are a lot of visual information about 'Klein Bottle House' design process on architects' site.
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All images by John Gollings.
With its looks similar to an origami figure, the house volume is composed of multiple geometric structures and creates, depending on the viewing angle, new forms and looks, actually having a multitude of facades.---
What counted for 'McBride Charles Ryan architects studio was to make the outer surfaces so that they blend into their surroundings composed from branches, trees and sand substrate. In contrast, the interior should invite you to relax and enjoy the holiday season. The two-story house has the rooms grouped around a central courtyard and a wide staircase connects all the two levels together. ---
Since it was build in 2008, the house won a several important awards, one of them being World Architecture Festival- winner of the World's Best House in 2009.
"This weekend house is located on heavily ti-treed sand hills adjacent the ocean beach in Rye. Its spiral configuration is a spatial device which responds to the difficult topography, it is also a figure rich in coastal allusions. By passing the spiral back through itself the house has become the mathematical concept of the Klein Bottle. This strategy has unlocked a new series of relationships and sequential spatial experience. The 'contents' of the 'bottle' are a rectilinear platform and walls which make the abstract geometry inhabitable. A dramatic stair winds around an internal courtyard picking up the bedrooms of the house as it ascends, the journey ending in the great living room. Externally the building is predominantly clad in cement sheeting, simultaneously recalling both folded origami, tents and the ubiquitous 'fibro-shack'. The building is supported on a traditional timber stud frame - pushed to its physical limit." - McBride Charles Ryan---
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