A home for a modern day Rapunzel! This water tower in Soest, The Netherlands was converted to a nine level residence. Built in 1931, the tower renovation involves a unique opportunity for the architects to use a myriad of designs for staircases in an effort to make the unique space both efficient and filled with natural light.
In addition to a 3 level window that allows natural light to enter the structure near the ground level, the home features a sauna and roof deck with amazing views. Completed in 2004, the tower residence was designed by architects at Zecc Architecten — the same firm who completed the Church-Home conversion we shared a few weeks ago.
You can see more photos and architectural renderings at ArchDaily | Watertower of Living / Zecc Architecten.
Images: Zecc Architecten
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Neat. A nightmare for the aged though!
Someone lives here? Really? Because you'd never guess it from these photos. It looks more like a sensory deprivation dungeon.
(Although if you link to the site you'll see a goldfish in a bowl in the kitchen. Poor little fish.)
And you get buns of steel just taking the trash out!
Well, you definitely wouldn't need to sign up at the local gym when you practically live on a stairmaster. Those photos have got to be from the architect's photos before anyone moved in. The place is so stark and cold--practically sterile! I feel chilly just looking at those photos.
It looks like one of the heads on Easter Island!
I can't even imagine the Feng Shui challenges! ;)
I like how someone is repelling down the side!
very beautiful but very uncomfortable to live in! It would be a nice art-gallery or something like that, but not a house!
You people have no imagination. This place is insanely cool.
Lizzykewl - Maybe the owner wanted to get downstairs faster than the stairs? Don't take that seriously - it was meant as a joke.
I agree w/ Blandwagon. I love it. I would like to live there with just my bf & have complete run of the place.
There's a water tower like this in our town, and the idea of turning into a house was briefly entertained then completely rejected. Every time drive by the thing I wonder what living in it might have been like. Thanks for this peek.
@mirandabee: "sensory deprivation dungeon" *snort* Yes, it does look really cold, doesn't it? I imagine no one lived there when the pictures were taken, because... where's all the stuff!?!?! It certainly doesn't look lived in.
The romantic in me wants to like it, though. I'm in love with lighthouses, and this is similar. Could be kinda cool... if it weren't for all those stairs. :S