Spherical houses weren't a great idea.

Thanks to Jeroen for letting us film inside his home: and please remember, if you're ever nearby, that these are homes and not a tourist attraction!

I'm dutch, born in Helmond so I knew about the cube houses, never knew these spherical houses existed. I'd love to see more of a housetour.

"man was not meant to live in a box."

"OK... but do you think you should maybe tell all the furniture companies and white goods designers that as well? Cos otherwise all those right-angles and straight lines they like using are going to be a serious pain in the arse." 🤔

Apparently Brazil had a similar phase of spherical buildings, but it didn't really take off. There are still a few houses near me, but they've all been adapted and enlarged with more traditional squarish extensions

Kitty!!

I'd love to see a scale floor plan of these (with an example furniture layout)

"Humans were not meant to live in boxes"
Creates spherical houses, divides them into boxes anyway

They do look very distinct at least. Although just thinking about how much of a pain it must be to do maintenance to them makes it obvious why the government wasn't interested in doing more houses with that shape.
BTW that's one chunky cat, unless they're pregnant their owners should consider putting them on a diet asap.

Near where I used to live there was a big spherical house that looked almost like a rock. It was a big sphere and the exterior made it look almost like a giant rock with windows. I used to ask my dad to take us by it nearly every time we drove past when I was a kid. I think it’s gone now but I looked on apple maps on my phone and it looks like you can still see the foundation of it. It’s hard to tell as it’s in a wooded area, and since it originally looked like a rock it’d be even harder to see if it was still up.

For anyone curious here’s the coordinates to what I believe is the foundation from where it was. Idk if someone knows how to look at old scans from google maps to see if you can go back years ago to when it was still standing or not, but here’s where it was.

30.14482° N, 95.67837° W

So. We've come full circle

these look so interesting!

You feel like a Pokémon in this

Doesn't 'bolbewoner' literally mean 'bulb liver'? Like, a person who lives in a bulb?

Looks like a sci-fi alien planet colony or something. Weird, but cool. But with unintended consequences for sure.

Should knock them down. Both an eyesore and impractical. The solar roadways of the 80s if you will.

Hm... No.

What a complete waste of valuable land.

Imagine having to haul all your furnishings up those narrow, winding stairs.

It's ok to say humans weren't meant to live in boxes, but it's not ok to follow it with 'therefore we are meant to live in tiny spheres.'

Wouldve liked a proper tour

“Humans were not meant to live in a box.”

“Let’s put ‘em in poke balls!”

Good looking kitty

I would feel like a gerbil locked in a running ball.

If I ever become a billionaire, I think I'm going to commission a spherical building just for fun. Sure, it might be daft and impractical, but I think it'd just be neat if there were more of these.

Any here we have another video in the series that Tom could have named "Things I noticed while jetpacking around."

That house design would make more sense in an exoplanetary colony. As it would be easy to manufacture and reassemble.

Oh man, it looks like tiny houses except from 1940’s. Even the windows open on a swivel, meaning half of each circle opens inward to take up more space. Yikes.

LIES! They work great in Terraria!

I’m not claustrophobic, but I hated just looking at the inside of that house

Especially that shower

The best thing about them is that they're built around grass and trees rather than roads and asphalt. But there's no reason we couldn't do the same thing with traditional housing.

I’d totally live in one of these 😊

Hear me out tho, instead of spheres, hexagonal housing

Cat! Also, it's too bad about the heat, the leaks, and especially the stairs (a lot of people I know can't do stairs). At least we see an honest, non-staged look at what an interior is like though.

The designer was living in a different sort of bubble

Ahh...this gives me Dragonball vibe.

Just from a practical aspect... squared furniture, round walls. WHY did he put all the plumbed rooms at the TOP of the house? Could you imagine having to run up three flights of steps to go to the bathroom?
And that's not even bringing up residents with limited mobility....

One of the biggest problems I see is that all of your furniture and appliances are still made for square houses.

Tom Scott: look at these neat things!

Me: CAT!

i mean, if you use AC, the insulation will keep them COOL in the summer, instead of warm. thats what insulation does

Whatever happened to the tent houses. Like the Denver Airport.

I understand the problems with spherical housing, but man, these things look cool!

Tom when will you realize your true identity.

They're just not that efficient when it comes to the footprint to livable space ratio. All I'm saying the true future of houses is putting everything underground.

Don't send this video to Akira Toriyama.

"Makes a house that isn't a square because of claustrophobia"
"House is way more claustrophobic than a normal house"
Good job.

Wow, we got a whole 19 seconds of interior footage. And no bedroom.

Humans are not meant to live in a pokeball either.

Any handyman will tell you curved anything is a nightmare to maintain and repair, and spheres curve around 2 axes simultaneously. But the biggest impediment is the door and window problem: Have you ever seen a square window somehow crammed on a spherical wall? Looks awful. They solved the door problem somewhat by having an arched door through the base cylinder.