Breathtaking series of photos by Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes features sand covered interiors of the abandoned houses in the Namib desert. Enjoy!
Also check out: Flying Houses and Creative Playgrounds
Breathtaking series of photos by Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes features sand covered interiors of the abandoned houses in the Namib desert. Enjoy!
Also check out: Flying Houses and Creative Playgrounds
víqui
this is great.
Aug 10th, 2010
Bob
gorgeous. I’d live there.
Aug 10th, 2010
MG
lol u’d live there?…
Aug 10th, 2010
Sara
Woah! I wonder what the outside looked like..
Aug 10th, 2010
jess
possibly the coolest photos of the coolest subject I have ever seen. stunning and eerily beautiful
Aug 10th, 2010
Debbie
Tragic! What if this were YOUR home?
What’s wrong with you people?
Aug 10th, 2010
unDave™
If that were my home, i wouldn’t let all that sand inside, dah!
Aug 11th, 2010
Sherise
Tragic? They left obviously. What’s the problem?
It would be more tragic if they remained there as dust and grit got into everything–to the extent of affecting their health such as their food or respiration.
The constant war of man versus nature.
Eerily beautiful is right.
Aug 11th, 2010
James Anzalone
@Debbie hmm haha..
I really like this series, I think Jess said it well.. There is something eerie and beautiful about them.
Aug 11th, 2010
k
This is so creepy ;~;
Aug 11th, 2010
woops
Patrick Star called. He wants his furniture back.
Aug 11th, 2010
Jantra
Wow, these look so cool.
Aug 11th, 2010
Sidragasum
Just shows that nature takes everything back once humans are out of the picture.
Aug 11th, 2010
Lushe
That is going to be a bitch to clean
Aug 11th, 2010
Art of Concept
Awesome! Very beautiful! Great photos!
Aug 11th, 2010
Chad
Home . . . a baron wasteland for some.
Aug 11th, 2010
Nikita Hengbok
Agreed with Sidragasum.
Aug 11th, 2010
Aertryn
Patrick Star knows how to use a phone?
Aug 11th, 2010
Stan
A Hoover nightmare !
Aug 11th, 2010
Kirvi_Inci
WHO WANTS TO MAKE SAND ANGELS?!?!
Aug 11th, 2010
cindy
Agree so eerie it is beautiful, something mysterically sensual about the shots.
Aug 11th, 2010
Toasty O's
My house looks like this after my 2 year old gets back from the beach.
Aug 11th, 2010
mosswoman
The sandman has been busy….!
Aug 11th, 2010
Daniel
sands of time!
Aug 11th, 2010
G Loaf
OMG its so pretty
Aug 11th, 2010
derschreckliche
Seems to be so unreal – like a painting or so.
Really impressive!
Aug 11th, 2010
Kevin
Gold mine for photoshoots
Aug 12th, 2010
Yngve Thoresen
“My house looks like this after my 2 year old gets back from the beach.”
Ha, that was my first thought too.
Excellent pictures, that really shows how important location can be.
Aug 12th, 2010
PauL B
Amazing!
Africa!
Aug 12th, 2010
Andrew
It looks more like the scene was created for this photoshoot. There’s no way that it happened naturally!
Aug 12th, 2010
LoyalV
It’s like a mansion for the world’s richest cat.
Aug 12th, 2010
timmay
patrick has a phone?
Aug 12th, 2010
X3msnake
That’s The Extreme of having a beach on the house!
Aug 12th, 2010
Raman
wow! But I wonder how they’ll look like during night time? ghost-land! great stills though!
Aug 13th, 2010
Julie
That’s amazing!! Especially the picture of the two doors. I wouldn’t want to live there but it would definitely be interesting to go there and slide through all that sand. Haha.
Aug 14th, 2010
chicanefromart
that’s good quality work of art
Aug 14th, 2010
Bobbob
Where is the beach…..I brought my shovel to make a sand castle
Aug 14th, 2010
Ankoku Flare
Whoa, that putting my house is a desert in literal terms!
Aug 14th, 2010
Birdaz
I don’t get it. How does it get that way?
Aug 15th, 2010
Tjalling
@Birdaz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification
Aug 15th, 2010
Kallamitty
this is fantastic. Great play on light
Aug 15th, 2010
Raads
@ Birdaz if you didnt go on the link,, obvious answer….. Sandstorm! duurrhh!
Aug 16th, 2010
Astrid Claessen
The houses are in Namibia and this is what they look like from the outside
http://www.flickr.com/photos/astridclaessen/4904993524/
Aug 18th, 2010
Carol
just look at the photographs… they are amazing! Ancient and spiritual and beautiful!
Aug 18th, 2010
Kentus
Clean House, anyone?
Aug 19th, 2010
Griffin
beautiful and creepy. very cool combination
Aug 21st, 2010
Toad
I wonder if you picked up the house would it leave a giant sand castle?
Aug 23rd, 2010
rich
Real cool houses we have in Namibia.
Aug 26th, 2010
Noah Goyette
I love seeing nature take back over places where we don’t belong, and although that is true, I don’t relish the idea of anyone losing or having to leave their home for any reason. But the result is fascinating, if only momentarily.
Sep 2nd, 2010
Paul Deane
These people don’t own a broom?!
Sep 5th, 2010
Matt Sloanim
Really fantastic. The photographs are great, but honestly the originality of the idea itself is amazing. Inspiring stuff.
Sep 14th, 2010
Nebb
This is a fantastic place for photographing! I also stumbled over this deserted place some years ago. Kolmanskop is the name of the Town, and the inhabitants were diamant diggers. It was abandoned around 1950 due to a national prohibition against diamant digging.
Thanks for nice pictures!
Nov 1st, 2010
annag16
great images! talk about reclaimed/recycled/transient art!
Jun 25th, 2011
Falcy
so creepy, sad and beautiful at the same time
Jul 7th, 2014