Designers and architects around the world build mirror buildings, use mirrors in the interior and exterior decoration of their creations, thereby pushing the boundaries of space, creating unusual forms and completely changing the usual perception of architectural forms.
Mirror facades of buildings allow you to disguise them, make them “invisible”, dissolve against the sky or harmoniously “fit” into a forest clearing.
Masterpieces of Disguise
- Treehotel, Sweden
Here is built one of the strangest hotels on earth. The mirror house-cube soars in the air at a height greater than human growth. The trees surrounding it are reflected in the glass faces of the cube, due to which it is quite problematic to see it among the green crowns.
The roof is a walking terrace, so that the inhabitants of the hotel, even when walking, remain invisible to prying eyes.
- Cinema La Geode, France
In one of the parks of Paris built a cinema-ball. Outside, it is trimmed with triangular-shaped metal plates, the shiny surface of which works like a mirror.
The diameter of the mirror building is 36 meters in diameter, but for those who walk in the park it is almost invisible: the sky is reflected in the upper part, park greens in the lower part, and the building itself looks illusory and improbable, even from close distance. The screen in this cinema also has the shape of a sphere.
- Cafe Mirrors, Japan
It would be strange if such connoisseurs of natural beauty, like the Japanese, would have passed by the idea of using mirror facades of buildings to achieve harmony with the environment.
Built in Gifu cafe surrounded by sakura. Reflected in the facades, the trees form a magical forest, especially in spring, during the flowering period. Through the huge windows, those inside the building can also admire the blossoming sakura.
- Mirror House Invisible Barn, USA
Standing in the green of the park in New York is quite difficult to see the house among the foliage. Mirror facades of buildings generally create a deceptive impression of the true size of the building, but in this case, reflecting the overhanging branches of trees and the sky gaps between them, they make the house almost indistinguishable from the surrounding nature.
- Mirror game pavilion Mirror House, Denmark
The harsh conditions of Denmark make it difficult to use mirrors on the facades, so to create mirror houses a polished stainless steel is used. Its sheets trimmed the facade of the game pavilion in one of the parks of Copenhagen.
- Research Center Palaon, Germany
A modern research center has a modern form, far from the classical proportions. From above, this form is covered with mirrored steel plates, which makes it look like a spaceship of unknown aliens. However, for such a comparison it is necessary to first see the mirror house, which practically merges with the sky.
- Country Houses Mirror Houses, Italy
In Bolzano, several mirror buildings were built nearby. Two houses are designed for recreation. The nature around them is so expressive that the architects did not want to spoil its perception, and they built invisible houses, covering the facades of simple form with mirror panels.
- Mirror House Lucid Stead, USA
In the deserted part of California National Park there is an old hut, turned into a mirage house using mirror cloths. Stripes of mirrors frame the house around the perimeter, instead of doors and windows there are large mirror canvases. Do not immediately understand - this is really a building, or a mirror house - just a vision?
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