A 40 year retired industrial art teacher's project by Robert Sanchez Rivera is creating quite the commotion in Puerto Rico.Mr.Sanchez's flying saucer home actually does not have anything to do with anticipated encounters with aliens.Just the average industrial design graduate accomplishing his childhood goals that included building a house that was unlike any other.
The UFO Home by architect Robert Sanchez Rivera Images courtesy of NY Times
Video:UFO Home by By Tony Cenicola and Almudena Toral
All of the UFO house's pieces have been hand-picked from discount-score knickknacks and discarded car parts.Mr.Sanchez's keen ability to theme his home to match the exterior adds an out of this world effect!(See interior pics below)
'When he first started the lighting,he would walk all the way down to the corner and see how it looked,'Ms.Martinez says,as she and her son,Leandro,24,and Mr.Rivera move into the house to sit at the kitchen table,which hovers several feet off the floor.'On three occasions he went down to the corner.Then he would see the attitude of the people when he turned on the lights'they wouldn't know he was the owner of the house'and he would hear,'That looks better now,''Yeah,''Right.''–NY Times quoting Mr.Sanchez.
Ceiling lights–made from car engine parts
A recent Google search resulted in pages and pages of UFO and Flying Saucer homes.Resulting in the new understanding that Robert Sanchez Rivera's UFO styled architecture is actually part of an underground phenomena of UFO architecture.For more information on Robert Sanchez Rivera's UFO Home visit:NY Times-Close Encounters of the Romantic Kind
Metal hanging lamps–made from stove burners
Copper Pipe Lighting
Colorful Lighting
Mr.Rivera's Hovering Furniture
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