if it doesn't have to be a house, you might look at niemeyer's niteroi contemporary art museum.

a few of those look line "DXF" 'circles' aka sketchup max polygon 'circles' ;)

if you can get his web-site to work, look at Zvi Hecker's Jewish Elementary School, Berlin (1990-95). not a circle so much as a spiral from a central point.

www.zvihecker.com/index_entry.html

one of my fav early sejima's
this foto doesnt really show you that its round but if you dig out an old el croquis, worth it

get it out of your sleeve when you're young and then never do another one again

rolf disch, heliotrop house
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fuller's dymaxion house...

some older instances as well might be more interesting:

trulli (puglia)


kivas @ chaco canyon

whoops, here is the disch house

eeayeeayo, I TOTALLY read your link as "Christ Is Great Estates" and was expecting some bizarre evangelical crucifix/sanctuary house!

in Aurora, Illinois by Bruce Goff.

Bruce Goff Bavinger House

[img]http://www.schildrotharchitect.com/images/Goff%20bavinger_house.jpg/[img] Bruce Goff Bavinger House

wright did some circles and some 'hemicycles' (basically tracking the movement of the sun):

lykes house, az:
http://www.waltlockley.com/lykes/lykes.htm

curtis meyer house, mi:
http://architecture.about.com/library/blhemicycle.htm

jacobs ii house:
http://architecture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.dgunning.org/architecture/Wisc/jacobsII.htm

this one in hawaii: http://www.flickr.com/photos/billadams/2299419072/

house by wright-apprentice don erickson:
http://www.prairiemod.typepad.com/prairiemod/2008/04/prairiemod-podc.html

llewelyn wright house, md:
http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/NR/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=963&FROM=NRMapMO.html


...and then there's this one by ken shuttleworth, which sorta borrows from wright's hemicycles: http://arkinetia.com/articulos/art137.aspx

...and another lautner:

...and it wouldn't take long to search bruce goff and bart prince and find some circle-based stuff.

i dig this one:

um, yeah:

honestly, i wish i had pictures of a house i visited in eastern kentucky that was made of an upright steel underground oil tank. they poured a foundation, set the tank up, cut windows in, and then built an interior. they wrapped the outside in a greenhouse made of a frame covered in cast-off windows. it's really beautiful.

the window openings in the tank had depth to them: they made two horizontal cuts with a vertical in the middle - I-beam shape - and folded the wings out and built the window into that opening.

the houses that Search/Bjarne Mastenbroek designed in a former sewage treatment facility?

<img>http://www.search.nl/assets/www.search.nl/media/9407/trommel_1L.jpg</img>

http://www.search.nl/

Note exactly round but:




Future Systems.

I tried to design a circular library once, but it turns out books dont stack well around a circle unless its very big.

ah, ok.

Here.

house in a water cistern

Mario Botta - Casa Rotonda

Not a house... but housing.

In the theme of recycling old round buildings or structures:

Coop Himmelb(l)au





And three more designed by other architects next to this one.

would this be rectangular or circular?

vertically circular

horizontally rectangular

i loved that one but couldn't steal the image from the place i found it. good one, orhan. reminds me of playing in those 'tunnels' on the playground when i was in 2nd/3rd grade.

silverlake, good dig on the botta. his early houses are the only projects of note, outside of tamaro and mogno chapels.

not a house but architecture nevertheless

Villa Spies / Villa Fjolle - Staffan Berglund

The dobson house overlooking the Rio Grande gorge...an earthship with a circular west end on the main building.

for those who missed it in my post above because i buried it among a lot of other less stimulating stuff, check out the shuttleworth:


more here:
http://arkinetia.com/articulos/art137.aspx

Steven that's a nice one. Besides just looking cool, his crescent house was a very thoughtful design on a number of levels. I remember reading his list of objectives in building that house a while back. Even though it may look somewhat "exotic" it seemed like a very practical design.

Sleeper House, Gennesee Mountain, Colorado by Charles Deaton
http://www.homeandgardenmag.com/articles_w08/sculptural_house_photos.html

This is a house by Art Dyson in Florida:

An other round house (mine) can be found here:

http://kant.dk/projekter/boliger/det-runde-hus/

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Build: 1951
Renovated: 2008-09

Interisting and very motivation reading - thank you.

I lived in a round housing unit in college. Each of these "mods" houses 8 5-bedroom apartments in a donut formation with a round space communal space in the middle.

It was weird living with all those angles, and quite difficult to fit furniture into wedge-shaped rooms.

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Sorry, try this link:

http://www.hampshire.edu/map/360_greenwich.html

The American octagon house typology is analogous to the circular house:

There's a whole website with examples of round and curved houses -

http://roundhouses.wordpress.com/

I particularly like this one, designed by Jack West in 1960 -

Hi friends!

This is just like coming home in my round house...!



http://kant.dk/projekter/boliger/det-runde-hus/

Round and Passive

An other initiative - Cal Earth:
http://calearth.org/galleries/emergency-shelter-village.html

250 exemples (and more) on my blog : https://autrecarnetdejimidi.wordpress.com/

Have a good trip ! 

JMD 

Be sure to look up plans for all the above, otherwise it's impossible to tell why the shape even works

Standard House by KWK Promes:

Also the Circular Spaces Instagram feed is fun:https://www.instagram.com/circularspaces/