Make Sure The Plans Are The Right Way Up
At a recent show at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow, Russian architects and builders created an homage to the power of fasteners and adhesives by building this entirely upside-down house. Opened in January this year for public viewing, the house is an otherwise unremarkable suburban home except for the fact that everything in it is upside down. Familiar household items and items of furniture hang over- head, the ceiling is under your feet, while the entire house stands at an angle. It claims to be the first hands-on interactive attraction with an upside-down kitchen, garage, bedroom and even a bathroom and a car outside. Some websites are reporting that walking inside an upside-down house is something akin to riding a roller coaster.
The architects behind the Moscow upside-down house project have studied international experiences—many of which are theme parks—and created their own design using the most successful and popular solutions for similar interactive attractions. A house that stands on its roof can also be found in the Polish village of Szymbark, at the foot of Mount Wiezyca, the highest mountain in the Kaszubian Province. Polish architects created another signature upside-down house in the small western Austrian village of Terfens.
Upside-down houses can also be seen in Kiev; a house in the seaside resort in Trassenheide in Germany; and one in the Japanese city of Matsumoto, just to name a few. There’s also a series of upside-down White Houses in the US: in Orlando, Florida and Tennessee, as well as the so-called Top Secret, the biggest upside-down White House, in Wisconsin.
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