Crazy House in Vietnam combines elements of Gaudi, Dali and Disney for a truly fairytale holiday
- Quirky stairs and hallways designed to look like caves
- Architect was inspired by natural environment
The ten-bedroom Vietnam hotel has been said to draw influence from eccentric artists Salvador Dali and Antoni Gaudi as well as from the fantasy look of the Disney castle.
Inside, the themed rooms are filled with quirky, handcrafted furniture and the stairs and hallways constructed to resemble caves.
Quirky and quaint: The fantastical holiday retreat is the perfect place for some escapism
Pretty and peculiar: Architect Dang Viet Nga has said she was inspired by the natural environment surrounding the city of Da Lat
Wonderland: The wonky building has echoes of imaginative writers such as Lewis Carroll or C.S. Lewis
Personality: The house boasts ten themed bedrooms, including a ‘kangaroo room’ where a fireplace sits in the belly of a sculpted animal
Animal magic: The architect says each creature represents a nationality – the tiger room is ‘the strengths of the Chinese’ while the eagle room is ‘big and strong’ like Americans
Architect Dang Viet Nga has said she was inspired by the natural environment surrounding the city of Da Lat, as well as the work of Catalan artist Gaudi.
The building’s organic, expressionist-style shapes are reminiscent of animals, mushrooms and spider webs.
The rooms include the tiger room, featuring a large tiger with glowing red eyes; the kangaroo room, which boasts a sculpted kangaroo with a fireplace in its belly and an eagle room – where the fireplace is in the form of a giant eagle’s egg.
Many of the rooms have an added level of symbolism, with the animal theme connected to a particular nationality.
Spooky stuff: The walls and stairways look like caves while the windows are unevenly shapred
Dream location: The delightful hotel has been compared to Walt Disney’s Cinderella’s Castle
Nga describes the tiger room as representing ‘the strengths of the Chinese’; the eagle room as being ‘big and strong’ like Americans; and the ant room as representing the ‘hard working Vietnamese’.
Nga’s design was brought to life by non-professional local craftsmen.
Few right angles are found throughout the building, whose exterior resembles a banyan tree, with unevenly shaped windows and branch-like structures that ‘grow’ along its walls and rise above the roof into the sky.
The house faced years of opposition from the city’s People’s Committee, which cited concerns about its ad-hoc character, its lack of formal aesthetic and its structural integrity.
Now, however, it has been hailed as an iconic piece of pop art in numerous guidebooks and has found recognition through being added to a list of the world’s most bizarre buildings in Chinese newspaper People’s Daily.
The five-story house was built in 1990 on a plot of land nearly 2000 square metres in size.
via….dailymail
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