The narrowest house in the world
Surely you would be hard to name a comfortable dwelling, which is a few meters wide. Most of these facilities are made in order to refute the myth that the meager dimensions can be applied to architecture. I suggest you look at the most famous narrow houses in the world.On the one hand Keret House in Warsaw, built in 2012 - a residential house, and the other - an art project by Polish architect Jakub Szczesny. The first inhabitant of a two-story house was an Israeli writer Etgar Keret, after which it got its name. This is one of the main contenders for the title of the narrowest house in the world. Its minimum width of 90 inches and a maximum - 1.5 meters. It has one bedroom where you want to climb the stairs, and instead of a window equipped with a roof made of transparent plastic.
Some homes are not just a narrow and extremely narrow - if his arms out to the side, you can touch the opposite walls. It is said that the house Long Beach in California was built on the dispute. In 1932, a man out to prove that the section 3 × 15 meters, he will be able to build a full house. The result is a three-story house with two bedrooms.
Houses in Amsterdam
Once upon a time, in many European cities, the real estate tax is calculated based on the width of the house. Therefore, from an economic point of view, narrow build multi-storey houses were profitable. The result can be seen in Amsterdam along the main channel. Here are some home no wider than three meters. One of the main attractions of the city can be called a house at Singel 166. Its width is 1.8 meters.
The Dutch settlers called New York New Amsterdam. Not surprisingly, there appeared narrow houses. House in Manhattan at 75.5 Bedford St width slightly less than three meters, and costs nearly $ 3.5 million it was built in 1873. Now there are three bedrooms and three bathrooms, and earlier it housed an art studio, confectionery and a shoe shop.
In Japan, the land - is a value that is suitable for building a house, even a place which in other countries is barely enough to park a car. Architect Yasuhiro Yamashita Lucky Drops house built on the site, which is the maximum width of 3 meters.
Legend has it that the Spite House in Boston built a soldier returning from the Civil War. He saw that his brother built a large house on the site which has got two of them inherited from their parents. Returning to his brother left very little land, but it was enough for the construction of four-storey building, which closed the light of the big house, and spoil the view from the windows. The maximum width of 3.1 meters at home.
When squeezed into a narrow house on the already built-up areas, such a move is not surprising. But sometimes designers manage to build a house on an extremely narrow open space. Pie House was built in the city of Deerfield (Illinois) in 2003. Its width is only slightly less than a meter.
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House 2-meter wide in the Old Town Alexandria (Virginia) was originally planned not as a living room and a place for the carts.
Width of a two-story house La Casca Estrecha in Old San Juan (Puerto Rico) - 1.5 meters in length - nearly 11 meters. Now it wants to convert for an art gallery.
Wedge width of the house in Scotland just over the doorway, only 120 centimeters. Further into the house extends to 3.3 meters.The house is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Width of the plot, which is built Skinny Building in Pittsburgh, just 1.8 meters. He appeared after the decision was made to narrow down the areas facing the street Forbes, to expand the roadway. Most owners have sold their decrease the parts the city, and in this case, figured out how to get out of the situation.
A similar situation happened with the plot on which stands the Sam Kee Building in Vancouver. The width of approximately 1.5 meters.
