Cube house
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Kubuswoning, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984, and built on Overblaak Street in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 32 cubes altogether, all attached to each other.
People do live in the unusual dwellings. Since they were disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and make a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The houses contain three floors:
- ground floor entrance
- first floor with reception, kitchen and living room
- second floor with bedrooms and bathroom
- top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden
The kitchen is ordinarily shaped, but with ceilings and windows angled at 45 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
