The houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside.
The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak metro station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called ‘super-cubes’, all attached to each other. The houses contain three floors. The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square metres, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
Featured Image: Cube Houses viewed from beneath / Image: Wikipedia
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