March 9, 2010
Spring 2010, mad pads

Mad Pads, a new section on yourchitect, will feature the maddest houses found anywhere in the world. Some are good mad. Some are bad mad. Some are just mad mad. Enjoy, G.

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Spring 2010, mad pads

In Chongqing, China, home to 1.4 million people, they took an entire 1.2 km street and turned it into a work of graffiti art.

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Spring 2010, mad pads

Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts (China) has perpetrated a massive group effort, involving more than 300 artists ( mostly students), covering more than a kilometer of apartment blocks.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

In this case, the maddest pad is the one you desperately need when you've lost your home. ShelterBox is the only international disaster relief organization that provides shelter and lifesaving equipment, after natural and manmade disasters.  I wasn't familiar with them until recently. What they are doing is nothing short of amazing.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Responding to over 100 disasters in more than 60 countries, ShelterBox has firmly established itself at the forefront of disaster relief.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Each box supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent and essential equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

We all aspire to a house on the water. This house on the Drina River, near Bajina Basta, a town in Western Serbia, takes it to the extreme.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Welcome to the trailer-park high-rise. I'll take the penthouse.

 

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Winter 2010, mad pads

The Shell House. Japan. Good Mad. Very good mad.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

From the genius of the Shell house to the...uh...well...of The Shoe House. Of course, someone just had to do it. Hallem, PA.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Mad good, good, good. Villa 24, part of the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia. One of 100 villas designed by 100 architects from 27 countries.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

...and it has a nice guest room for your mother-in-law.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Kind of an extreme Super Mario makeover. Just what you always wanted.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

A house that just dropped in for a visit. The Viennese Museum of Modern Art

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Because we all need more storage. The Hang Nga Guest House and Art Gallery in Dalat, Vietnam. Crazy good.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Just a plane ol' home.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

What was once a house in Cinncinnati was turned into a tree house. About time.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

A lot of people have bugs under their house. But not like this.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

The Upside Down House. Syzmback, Poland. Don't bother visiting the basement.

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Winter 2010, mad pads

Sideways. To my eye, more good than mad.

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