Upside down

'The World Stands on its Head'



Foreign Policy’s Passport blog reports that “in the town of Trassenheide on Germany’s Baltic Sea island of Usedom,” a man has built a house upside down. The house is called ‘The World Stands on its Head’ and is open to visitors.

South Africa’s IOL website, in an article titled Man turns house on its roof, identifies the builder of the upside-down house as Polish-born German Klaudiusz Golos. It states that, “Visitors enter the 120-square-metre home through the attic and ascend to the ‘ground’ floor. All the furnishings including chairs, the fitted kitchen and the toilets are also upside down, but the stairs are right-side up because visitors have to use them.”

Some very interesting images of this upside-down house can be found here.

[Citation: Photos: Germany’s upside-down house, Foreign Policy’s Passport blog, 4 September 2008; Man turns house on its roof, in South Africa’s IOL news, 4 September 2008. Image reproduced from Foreign Policy’s Passport blog, Photos: Germany’s upside-down house, 4 September 2008.]