To enter this bathroom, you must have monstrously strong nerves. Or not to have a single phobia.
Our Russian housing legislation very strictly regulates what and how can be changed in an apartment. In your house – whatever. But if the housing is located in a high-rise building, then deviation from the norms by at least a centimeter can threaten with fines and even deprivation of property rights. Moving a toilet or kitchen, for example, to another place will not work – this is one of the most terrible violations in redevelopment.
But the designer and architect Hernandez Silva clearly did not face such problems. Otherwise, he would not have been able to bring his project to life. What he turned the toilet into is neither to tell in a fairy tale, nor to describe with a pen. So we’ll show you better.
An apartment on the very top of a 15-storey building, built in the center of the Mexican city of Guadalajara in the 70s, became the testing ground for the embodiment of the architect’s creative ideas. More precisely, not an apartment, but a whole floor. Hernandez Silva undertook to transform it into a modern penthouse. Looking at the Mexican favelas, we understand that the layout of housing there can be handled very freely, so that the designer’s flight of fantasies was limited only by the supporting structures.
Silva demolished the partition walls, which he considered unnecessary, put up huge stained-glass windows, combined the space of the apartment with a balcony-veranda. The result is a spectacular studio in a modern spirit. However, most of all, the apartment was surprised not even by the gigantic areas, but by the design of the toilet. Because this is not a bathroom, but an attraction.
We would call it a combined bathroom – the bathroom and toilet are united by the same walls. Everything looks quite compact and comfortable, stylish laconic design. But then you look under your feet – and the design immediately ceases to matter. You just don’t notice it anymore.
The fact is that the bathroom is suspended on braces above the inoperative elevator shaft. Only a transparent floor separates the visitor of the bathroom from the dark abyss 15 floors deep – at least 33 meters. The glass barrier seems so fragile that one involuntarily wants to grab onto the walls. And if a person is afraid of heights, then he is guaranteed a heart attack instead of water procedures.
The dizzying effect is reinforced by the brick walls of the mine, going down, lost in the darkness. However, if you look closely, it becomes clear that the abyss is not that deep – the mine is blocked a few meters below. But it looks, I must admit, all the same creepy: it is unlikely that you want to sit here with a gadget or a book. But for shocking guest entertainment or horror-themed parties, this “fear bathroom” is perfect.
By the way, this is not the only bathroom, looking at which one would like to ask: “Why ?!” We’ve collected a few more examples of creepy design – flip through the photo gallery.
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