About an 60 minutes ’s drive sou'-east from Amsterdam is a twelfth - century city called Den Bosch , whichboaststheNetherlands’slargest Catholic church and anart centerdevoted to painterHieronymus Bosch(who was bear there ) . As Unusual Placesreports , Den Bosch also plays host to a neighborhood comprising 50golfball - shape homes .
The home — competently namedbolwoningen , for “ ball houses”—were the last intersection of a President Grant for advanced residential developments the Dutch authorities launched in 1968 . Dutch creative person Dries Kreijkamp make them in 1984 , the same year the grant was eliminated . Though the colorless , concrete dwelling seem industrial or even futurist , Kreijkamp in reality based them on much older models : Inuitigloosand African the Great Compromiser huts .
" The ball - shape is wholly ego - plain . It ’s the most organic and raw shape potential , " Kreijkam once explained in an interview , according touncube magazine . “ The world combine the biggest possible book with the smallest potential airfoil area , so you need minimum fabric for it . It ’s space - economy , very ecological , and nearly maintenance - loose . Need I say more ? ”
Each ball sits atop a piston chamber with a front room access , a storage outer space , and a staircase that winds up and then wraps around the internal wall of the ball itself . In accession to the bedroom , bathroom , life room , and kitchen , there are also several windows and a fanlight — which help oneself give the feeling that the home is a niggling larger than its 592 substantial pes .
Kreijkamp stay on a strong worshiper in his excogitation and continued mastermindingbolwoningenblueprints until his dying in 2014 . edition on the design featured lightweight polyester or else of concrete , and even capabilities for solar and jazz energy . But while people have been felicitous enough to remain living in the existing supersized golf game Ball of Den Bosch , the musical theme never really catch on — as you may likely guess from the conspicuous lack ofbolwoningenin your ( or any other ) neighborhood .
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