Architecture Wednesday: The Cylinder House

It’s totally tubular, man.

This unique construction is located in the woods outside Lyon, France. The architect chose the tubes, or cylinders, to make the house fits easily between the trees. From the outside it looks like a cluster of cylinders that come together to form a wavy and transparent structure but this system of cylinders allows the house to become larger and to have a fuzzy external delimitation of the house with its context. There are no defined corridors in the interior, so the variable heights of the tubes have been used to establish the partitions between each space.

It’s not for everyone, it might be for no one, but it is very unique in that “Beam me up, Scotty” kind of way.

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