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Location: Dietikon, Switzerland

Date: unknown

Architect: Peter Vetsch

Purpose: residential houses

Rating: (462 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

More info: The residential settlement consists of nine houses, three 3 bedroom, a 4 bedroom, a 5 bedroom, three 6 bedroom and a 7 bedroom house. All the bathrooms get natural light through rooftop windows. On top of the isolation is a protective layer with natural earth, which can be used to grow grass or plants on the rooftop.

(source: erdhaus)

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6 Responses to “Earth House 1 (Dietikon, Switzerland)”

  1. Renata
    10 May 2010 at 7:16 am #

    Beautiful..!!!

  2. dan
    19 May 2010 at 11:25 pm #

    in one of them my parents living!
    its a great house, you feel very cozy inside & it needs very little energy to heat during the winter.

  3. Linda
    21 June 2010 at 7:39 pm #

    Do teletubbies live there?

  4. Christoph
    14 October 2010 at 9:22 am #

    In Switzerland we call it the “Schlumpf-Haus” (= house of the Smurfs)!

  5. Lou
    15 October 2010 at 10:23 am #

    Hehe…it really does look like the Teletubbies which my little granddaughter and I used to enjoy watching.

  6. Renato Barreto (Brazil)
    17 November 2010 at 2:36 am #

    I think that “The Smurfs” live there!!!