Architects and designers often use mirror surfaces in the design of facades – this technique helps to visually change the volume and shape of the building, create an optical illusion or even make an invisible house.

Copperfield House?

In the suburbs of Warsaw, architect Marcin Tomaszewski from Reform Architectural Studio designed a building hovering among trees.
The mirror facade reflects the surrounding forest, which gives the impression that the house is suspended in the air between the trees.

Invisible Rectangle

This house in Austria is made with a mirrored facade to completely merge with the landscape and not to violate the natural harmony. However, the creators took care of the birds, covering it with a special infrared film, invisible to humans, but visible to birds.

Hotel on a tree in Sweden

In Sweden, there is an unusual hotel Tree Hotel, which is a mirror cube suspended around a tree trunk. Designed by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, the glass cube reflects the surrounding forest and sky, and access is made through a light bridge.

Cafe in Japan

Blooming Sakura is reflected in the mirror gables of the cafe in Gifu (Japan), the project of which was developed by the architectural studio Bandesign. The building has two wings and looks like it was cut in half and placed around an evergreen tree that stands on a square of white gravel. Mirror pediments are located at an angle to each other in such a way as to reflect both the neighboring tree and the cherry blossoms that grow on the river bank.

The illusion of a house in London

House-illusion of the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. This work of art is called Dalston House.

Mirror sauna in the USA

Architect Dan Heusel built this tiny sauna on the banks of the Saranac River, not far from New York. The building itself is made of wood, but almost completely covered with mirrors. Because of this, the house is almost impossible to detect.

Mirror restaurant

The architects of the PRAG Architects studio were so carried away by the task of “inscribing” the building into the surrounding landscape that they even overdid it – the restaurant Steirereck simply dissolved. Reasonable question: how can a tourist find him?

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