Upside Down House UK upside down experience

For those spending their holidays in the UK, here is a little treat that is sure to turn the heads of those who follow you on social media, ensuring maximum virality of holiday images. We are talking about the Upside Down House UK initiative. We have already seen similar installations around the world, including the famous Olympus Playground, where visitors could experience space through artistic and optical illusions and effects. 
Upside Down House UK, on the other hand, is a true destination, in the sense that these are permanent installations. With the help of the architecture, they allow the curious to have an “upside down” experience and even rent out the various locations for parties, advertising, or team-building activities. It's not by chance that one of the pay-offs reads: “It is an experience to be shared in real time with friends and family.”.
In the UK, the first example was realised in Bournemouth, a popular seaside resort in the South of Great Britain. Here, on the terrace of the famous Pavilion Theatre, you can find the ocean blue house turned on its roof. Its construction required a lot of work and an excellent organisation to bring back and contain the latest trends in interiors and exteriors. It is no coincidence that last spring, the Upside Down House in Bournemouth underwent renovation work to ensure that its visual and furnishing proposal was up-to-date.
A success quickly explained in our world dominated by images, where everything is communicated with a few shots sent to one's address book or published on one's social profiles. Disruptive photos that are successful, consequently also increasing our visibility, such as those that can be achieved in an artificial environment such as an upside-down house. Moreover, the thrill of the upside-down perspective allows us to see with new eyes a living space that we usually do not look at very carefully anymore, namely our homes.
For those not travelling to Great Britain on holiday, other locations around the world offer similar thrills. In 2008, an upside-down house, born out of a festive evening between two architect friends and entitled Die Welt steht Kopf (The World is Upside Down), was built in Trassenheide on the island of Usedom in Germany. But we also find examples from China to South Africa, Romania to Colombia, Thailand to Turkey, and the United States of America.
In short, people's fascination for architecture and built space is great, and these tourist attractions prove it, although something less archetypal and in the “normal”form would not have displeased us. Or is it a sign that, regardless of the country where we see it, a house must be easily recognisable with concessions to local taste only in the interior design? This is the question one must ask oneself, even upside down.

Christiane Bürklein

Upside Down House UK
Location: Bournemouth, Brighton, London, Essex, Manchester, Bristol, Milton Keynes
Images: courtesy of Updside Down House UK
Find out more: https://upsidedownhouse.co.uk/