Australian architectural firm Modscape has designed a house that hangs off a cliff to provide great views of the ocean.
The structure, called Cliff House, is currently just a concept, and may not be for people who have a fear of heights, according to BBC News. Features of the house include three bedrooms (two doubles and one en-suite), a carport and separate bathrooms. The bottom floor comes with an open-air spa and barbeque area.
Modscape, which is responsible for designing and building prefabricated homes, came up with the idea for Cliff House when a couple asked the company's designers to find a way to build a holiday home along "extreme parcels" of coast in Victoria.
The shape and behavior of barnacles that hold onto a ship's hull were used as inspiration for the house's design, Discovery News reported. Engineering steel rods are used to hold the house to the wall of the cliff. Owners and visitors would enter the home at a level even with the cliff top and use an elevator and stairs to get to floors below them.
While houses in the city provide the best view from the roof, Cliff House's outdoor patio at the bottom level provides a fantastic 180-degree view of the ocean.
Cliff House joins a list of unconventional homes that have been created around the world, such as floating homes, houses built underwater and ice hotels, BBC News reported.
Maxwell Hutchinson, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, said the owner of Cliff House would have to be someone with not only a lot of money, but "a very, very strong stomach."
