Like an inhabitable billboard, the Single Hauz – by Poland's front architects– proposes cantilevering domestic living space from a central mast. Thehouse can then be installed above a variety of ground conditions, fromthe middle of a meadow to an urban core. Personally... I'd put it in a lake.
Thecool thing is that I've actually spent the last 11 months of my lifestaring up at some of the Herculean billboard structures out here inLos Angeles; they tower over intersections on streets from Venice toSepulveda and often seem as large as houses. But how much weight could a billboard carry?
Could you build a house up there? Couldyou use the mast-and-cantilever model for other types of architecturalstructures, whether those are single-family houses – whole cul-de-sacslined with modernist billboard homes! – or even restaurants and publiclibraries? The Single Hauz shows how beautiful the effect could be.