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Meter House

Architecture, Bizzare Oddities August 8th, 2008

METER HOUSE

Can you actually stay in a house which is 1 meter WIDE by 10 meters tall?
A house calls attention in Madre de Deus , Brazil ; it has three floors with the above dimensions. Helenita, the designer and the owner of the house lives happily in one such house.

At first, the municipality refused, but in the end when the plan was approved for construction, it became a touristic spot in the small town of 12 thousand people.

There are benches in front of the house where the tourists can spent some time watching the unusual building. Some, more curious ask to go inside and take pictures, to which Helenita (woman in yellow) allows. The couple now have plans to build a 4th floor, ‘open for leisure, with barbecue and everything’.