@@ArvinHaddadOfficial I think its probably a safehouse for some organised crime boss or something, every detail just screams 'I don't want to get sniped' The garage entry, you are in your bulletproof car and are immediately safe in your garage with big thick doors. The Livingroom has recessed seating because its the only room with a view out onto the landscape, a sniper would have a tough time taking that shot. No windows, again no way for a sniper to take a shot. The additional emergency blast doors that will counter a siege. The super thick and probably bulletproof glass on the Livingroom sliding doors. All balconies being obscured by thick concrete walls. Also that tub is highly suspicious, my intuition tells me that the bottom of it slides out to reveal a staircase that leads down into the basement saferoom. Notice at 20:19 Enes walks past a moss wall, the person who designed the interior doesn't strike me as a person who likes nature in their home so why the wall? Well after looking closely you will see at that this frame, there is a feint outline of a trapezoid in the moss wall lined up with the staircase, its a hidden door... probably to the safe room also. This is Its beyond doubt built for someone who is in very real danger of being assassinated as soon as their enemies get a chance.
@@ChadWilson dude, the ex machina house is awesome, full of nature views. i think it is a hotel in norway of something. this is indeed the worst prison house ever.
@@alexs36zero, it had elements of enclosure, though. The other place that came to mind was from the Bladerunner movies. I want a room in my future house that is a platform in the middle of an indoor reflecting pool.
100 % the top floor is made to prevent any possibility of being sniped. It's sniper proof. Definitely built for an individual with high threat to life.
Honestly this entire house reminds me of an upscale prison with the narrow closets, the capsule hotel kids bedroom, the security doors, all the slick surfaces asking for slips and falls, the bath trench. Whoever designed this place hates people.
@@angelakelley7546 yeah, it does make me think of Nordic/Scandinavian prisons. Interesting comparison. It's a whole other subject but the prisons in those countries are nicer than many non-convicts' living conditions in America and elsewhere. There is something to be said about how those countries view penitence and rehabilitation.
The guy made this into a fortress. Those bunk beds aren't for kids, they are for the security staff. There are even dual showers in the "kids bathroom". They are so you can have 24/7 security onsite. The guy pissed off some people. The fact the garage turns into a funnel point that can be sealed is designed to slow/stop the attackers as they have to fight their way up to the higher floors. There are zero windows into the sensitive parts of the house so a sniper cant get you when you are sleeping. If someone wants to "get you" in this house, they need to assault the house and take it floor by floor. If you are person with a lot of enemies, this house is for you.
@@friedrichweitzer3071yes, many of the design features of this house clearly point to being secure from outside threats. Otherwise they make absolutely no sense, unless it is some sort of repurposed bunker or similar.
The glass staircases have no handrails? They must really hate Grandma. And the kid’s bathroom has two glass shower areas in the same room? Why??? Are the children supposed to shower at the same time, in full view of each other? Just No!!! This is what happens when an architect has never met actual, human people.
I think its probably a safehouse for some organised crime boss or something, every detail just screams 'I don't want to get sniped' The garage entry, you are in your bulletproof car and are immediately safe in your garage with big thick doors. The Livingroom has recessed seating because its the only room with a view out onto the landscape, a sniper would have a tough time taking that shot. No windows, again no way for a sniper to take a shot. The additional emergency blast doors that will counter a siege. The super thick and probably bulletproof glass on the Livingroom sliding doors. All balconies being obscured by thick concrete walls. Also that tub is highly suspicious, my intuition tells me that the bottom of it slides out to reveal a staircase that leads down into the basement saferoom. Notice at 20:19 Enes walks past a moss wall, the person who designed the interior doesn't strike me as a person who likes nature in their home so why the wall? Well after looking closely you will see at that this frame, there is a feint outline of a trapezoid in the moss wall lined up with the staircase, its a hidden door... probably to the safe room also. This is Its beyond doubt built for someone who is in very real danger of being assassinated as soon as their enemies get a chance.
I’m glad you’re finally reviewing this house. This monstrosity has long been one of my least favorite houses. Straight up, I would go insane if I had to spend even one night there. The house gives off “get out” vibes right and left. The only area I liked was the side yard. If I ended up stuck at this house for some unfortunate reason, I’d pitch a tent in the side yard and stay there.
I've worked on many golf courses and there are major negatives that realtors don't share when selling a golf course property that I have ended up dealing with. Big ones no thinks of are the maintenance crew equipment is loud and they work early and 7 days a week. Also, your yard may be dangerous to be in, and the house may be in danger of getting hit, especially if you live on the right side of a golf hole. This house is located next to the tee so that's better. There are also privacy concerns
This is a fact. I live near Wentworth Estate in UK which has a PGA golf course and they work 7 days a week from morning till almost evening. There will be trucks, maintenance vehicles, patrol & utility vehicles, most likely some construction going on etc... I would think whoever lives right next to the course probably uses it as a holiday home because it's not ideal to live there full-time.
I worked at a local course when I was 15 year old and I had always thought wanting a house on the greens seemed so weird. No privacy, noise, and balls flying at your house and yard! They were these big expensive mansions! Definitely not my vibe. I remember one of the home owners would come to the club all the time and bitch about the balls going into his yard and I remember thinking he was such an old doofus! "wow really the ball almost hit your window?? that's shocking!!" LOL.
@@alyross3081 It certainly has it's negatives but it also has its positives, especially huge golf courses that have a huge circumference and radius. For example, when I lived in the London, you don't have as much free space away from all the noise, pollution and just open space and privacy + there's so much crime, you can't even wear a nice watch without potentially being targeted. Now where I live which is just outside of London, you can walk around for miles, clean air, nice strolls, besides the constant maintenance, it's peaceful, great network, ambience, a lot of golf courses where you find private estates are very exclusive so it's not like a bunch of strangers are just visiting in droves every day. So my local course is Wentworth Club which costs around £175k or about $225k to join and then an annual fee of over $10k, so unless you're a member or resident people won't just be wandering in which is a perk. I would say, maybe don't buy it right on the course but maybe a 5-7 minute walk from the course would be ideal just so you can live on a quiet section of the overall estate where there isn't much maintenance or vehicles passing through. The section where I live, you're pretty much only going to hear nature, very light winds, it's perfect.
Knowing Enes videos, when he knocked on the floating stainless steel fire place, I have to admit, I thought it was going to reveal a hidden giant dish washer 😂
22:21 Agree. This was built for someone afraid of an assassination attempt. The room with the window was probably the guest bedroom. lol 26:29 That's the gun/arrow slit. lol. 31:12 😲
23:51 The narrow hallway is also a security feature. They are often called *illing floors by swat, since one person at the other end can stop an entire swat team from advancing. The length and narrowness forces people into a single line, so only one attacker can act, while the length makes shure there's no cover to slowly advance.
Small bedrooms, a joke of a kitchen, a bathtub that is probably a hazard, claustrophobic theme all throughout the house, and I’m only halfway through the video. TITTLE DID NOT LIE!!
@@talmiz101imagine this guy has brain worms after all these years rambling all the same phraaes over and over. Imagine u visit a friend and he shows off his flat like this. But all day long... .
Prisons have more windows and better views than this house, horrible, not a single view from inside. This designer was definitely being chased by the mob....
I thought of Hitman when I seen this house. It reminds me of the "Christmas party" level, including the glass swimming pool where you get extra points for shooting someone through it.
"It's incredibly private." - Yes, after walking through the closet to get to the tiny bedroom, you get a giant window that reveals a completely blocked view by a concrete wall. And the baffling thing that this was intentional - this isn't the result of a bad remodel that is trying to stay cheap and work around existing walls & beams. Baffling. In fact the entire house is an odd balance of small/narrow and expansiveness. The scale is just so inconsistent and the assistance of blocking the view is baffling. Owner: "How to we keep golf balls from hitting the windows?" Architect: "I know: we'll put large cement walls in front of the windows!" Owner: "Brilliant! Can you also keep the hallways narrow, make people walk through closets to get to the bedrooms, and mess up the scale in general throughout the home?" Architect: "Done!"
@@rangerrecon it's obvious to me with the blocked views, security doors, single garage entry, etc. that this home was designed to keep a lot more than golf balls out.
@@keithclayton1271 I agree. Additionally, there may have been safe rooms and other defensive measures not shown in the tour for security reasons. It just seems odd to put such a home on a golf course where your paying for a fairway view and securing the perimeter of the home would be more difficult.
@@rangerrecon I mean, with about 1/4 of your perimeter being a mostly flat, open golf course that is one quarter you're least likely to have to defend from.
@@rangerrecon and I agree, there's probably a ton of stuff in this structure that wasn't shown on camera... probably has a security office hooked in to video surveillance which they'd not want the public to be aware of.
The layout of this is actually impressive, it gives you privacy from the outside which by the looks of it seems to be rather uninhabitated anyway whilst designing every bedroom as well as the kid's bathroom in a way that allows/forces the people living in the house to violate each other's privacy. This must have been designed by a highly paranoid voyeur which is quite the funny juxtaposition.
The thing that struck me is that assuming the bunker idea was intentionnal to lure in paranoid clients that may fear home intrusions or snipers or whatever. There's still huge security flaws from what we could see. The middle part is half glass panels with no additionnal bunker doors to protect them. So the house doesn't seem that harder to breach than any other house anyway. It's confusing. There's some ideas here and there that can be salvaged, but overall, it's a very strange construction.
Unless the glass is some high tech bullet proof glass. Or maybe there were metal panels that dropped down. There seemed to be a lot of space above to hold them.
It’s a perfect house, perfect for one of those weird movies where neither the director nor the writers understand what’s going on, screened at those strange film festivals where no one knows what’s happening, and they just call it 'art' and tax evasion. This is the typical house built by an architect, for an architect where nobody really wants to live there.
This House looks like straight from one of those "futuristic horror movies" where a "Crazy doctor" keeps his cloned wife captive, or some scientist built a "Humanoid robot female" and keeps it in there to abuse it, some stuff like that 🤣
Having the henchmen's dormitory opposite the interrogation chamber, is a great move, but I'm not so sure about the long narrow corridor leading away though, looks like they could be gunned down as they have to exit in single file. Those closed courtyards with open roofs also seem like a problem, if someone just chucks a hand grenade over the wall there's no escape and the blast will be really amplified. That said, it will contain most of the mess.
@@channingtaintum where’s the “How to rent a 300sq foot studio for under $1500 in chicago” guy, and hopefully his partner “How to fit all your shit in a 300sq foot studio” guy
With a camo baseball cap he ran through the dishwasher rubber banded to a 2 liter Coke bottle, 4 dips in his mouth, & says “HOTDOG!” whenever he gets excited.
Eight bunk beds? Eight? Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, but eight? And two, GLASS showers next to each other for the KIDS? I'm sure all the kids who are at least 12 months apart each (assuming the adults in the house are the parents) are going to want to shower together. Kids ranging across 8 years. And big metal doors to lock everyone in. And no windows to draw out the big letters H-E-L-P on?
Glass, glass AND MORE GLASS? I like glass, but at some point I DON'T WANT SO MUCH GLASS. And i like minimal design but I DON'T WANT A SENSORY DEPRIVATION CHAMBER.
The first flor bedroom gives me claustrophobia just watching the video! Also, I love your art appreciation class, that’s hilarious. „life is meaningless, but the stainless steel version“😂
The house is at 43°32'56.36"N, 5°23'5.53"E. (or search Golf d'Aix-en-Provence, there you will see it) 1) There is even a bigger pillar box house right next to it. So on the map, this house looks like the guest house of the other "main" house. 2) The privacy of this house is not thought through. Yes, you have perfect privacy in most parts of the house, but at the main parts, the big pool and the main living room, everyone from the golf course can take a look at you. 3) Instead of a family living there, this house would be more suited for a Hugh Hefner type of playboy, who wants to throw a NSFW party.
😂 ARVIN! I'm learning so much from you. Where's the front door?? What if you have a party? People come through the garage? I ❤ your laugh. THE VOIDS! Keep up the good work.
Ok, i'm only half way in. I lost it at the tub. lol. It appears the builder doesn't like Heavy Set folks. The shower will collapse and the tub you have to turn to wash half of your body. Arvin you are a mess. 😂
That "bedroom" downstairs is an interrogation room. Look how the desk is set up. And then they make the prisoner run the treadmill until they give up information.
I thought the worst of all was the lack of direct sunlight inside the house, the humidity must be unbearable, but the entrance through the garage leading to the bathroom doesn't make any sense at all. 🤣🤣🤣
A modern interpretation of an underground Titan II ICBM Launch Facility (you can tour one in Arizona). This place gave me instant creepy vibes. I would be the one outside, looking for golf balls, when they closed the blast doors and locked the place down. Seriously, the stupidest house I’ve ever seen. Only two potential buyers: Dr. Evil, or the neighborhood Pedo. (Enes must be paying Mikey a couple hundred grand a year not to start a channel doing “behind the camera” critiques of his videos. Luckily, we have Arvin doing it instead).
7:15 " goes well with the organic lines of this home" that house is the antithesis of organic. Also that first room he shows has a gap above the en suite, to waste space and gather dust, just like the pointless cell behind the window wall... could have put a garden in there at least.
Mark Rothko created a series of paintings for a restaurant in New York. He later admitted that he wanted to make customers vomit. Arvin knows how to troll!
This is the first of your videos I see... You're a really kind person, you were so nice to this horrendous "house". I wouldn't be surprised if they found the Minotaour if they roam around long enough.
Take 5 hectars away and with the saved money install bullet proofed windows and doors if you are afraid of snipers and you still live in a lovely castle.
The architect was afraid of windows. Hardly any natural light and ventilation, many of the rooms are dark corridors using artificial light. Also you never want to use such large glass panes on a sliding track because over time the weight is going to be a problem. That stainless steel flue has been popular for about 20 years now and someone can easily get burned if they touch that thing. I feel sorry for any plumber that must work there, he better have a maglite torch. Would love to see the brief for this death trap. If people want to break in, they better bring a generator with them in case there is a blackout.
The outdoor spaces can be saved by covering up the concrete with natural elements but the rest of it is beyond saving. The TV is also parallel to the window instead of facing away from it so you're also gonna get a ton of reflections on the screen
It's an underground prison! Those "private outdoor jail exercise yards" at least add some plants. And that sunken tub! That will be your grave when you backup and fall into it hitting your head. Call it the claustrophobia bunker. And there's a golf course to see. But only in one room? Agree this is the most ridiculous excuse for a home i have ever seen. And that chrome chimney should be an extra 8 feet up. All in all a real stunner.
Im so happy. I was waiting for you talk about that one. I got so confuse when watch this house for First time. Like, Who is the mean target? A Very rich Mob? A rich witness protection Program? Its so not what I expect from a Provence house
No front door where can only go thru the garage doors that are heavy duty. I’m sure was done for safety reasons. How is ‘anyone’ going to just walk in - is a safety design.
With challenges come opportunities. The bare nature of the enclosed patios can be countered in few fashions, such as: - Olive trees planted in large pots. - Big scale contemporary art (sculptures). - Outdoor Cinema projector (bedroom).
This house could be improved a LOT by adding a ton of beautiful plants. Loads and loads of gorgeous green, arranged in a natural way. The way it is rn, it looks dead and depressing. Even the "living" wall looks pretty much dead and unappealing...
OK you actually had me laughing on this one. This home reminds of Mexico City because so many luxury homes are walled off and full of security features.
It would make a good set for a horror movie. There should be a scene where the victim glances at the killer through that swimming pool window, complete with high-pitched violin jump scare music.
You’re definitely right, I feel CIA hide out high value prisoner, cartel leader, Osamas summer house etc. someone on the who’s hiding out- that’s who this home is actually for. And I feel that’s what it was actually commissioned for. And it’s served it’s use and is now for sale
OMG I was getting claustrophobic. Absolutely a prison . Also so many fall risks , sunken coffin bath, sunken seating area that you'd fall into from outside when the window is opened. Worst house ever.
I'd say there are strong elements of brutalism here, but I think pill box revival covers it. The narrow hallways, the poor planning for things like the fireplace or air circulation, the death trap sunken tub (it is a coffin, because at 2am you'll be trying to navigate to the "kitchen" to get a snack and fall in the pit trap of a tub and be found cold and lifeless in the morning by the security team that lives in the bunk room downstairs), the weird courtyard spaces that seem to be afterthoughts... the not kitchens... the lack of front door.... just... all of it is so bad. I did get a good laugh from your reactions, though, so thanks!
Imagine being in a $10M home like this, and being thankful just to have a bedroom window. This was done on a bright day. But in any other room that isn't the living room, it would feel like a prison at night.
Where better to put a house with 100 floor-to-ceiling glass walls than next to a golf course. Gee, what could go wrong? This is not to mention that several of the glass walls are holding back a swimming pool of water.
I have a friend with a pretty big house and whenever I'm in it everything feels out of scale. This is reminding me of it. The super high ceilings with narrow hallways always feel dumb to me. And it would be hard to decorate this house to the point where it felt like a house.
Of course my initial reaction was "WHO would live in such a soulless, clinical space in the heart of AIX EN PROVENCE?" Then I realized that this building was probably not built or intended as a residence. I suspect it was created as either a spy meeting center, or some kind of retreat/meeting space for a corporation/financial organization involved in some very dangerous activities, where being as invisible as possible was the primary goal. Or, it's just a popmpous and stupid architect's vanity project....sigh....BLEAH! Thanks as always for another hilarious review, Arvin!
Half asleep goomg to the toilet in the night that sunken bathtub is dangerous 😂
That’s where the Vietcong use to set traps for US soldiers
@@ArvinHaddadOfficial I think its probably a safehouse for some organised crime boss or something, every detail just screams 'I don't want to get sniped'
The garage entry, you are in your bulletproof car and are immediately safe in your garage with big thick doors. The Livingroom has recessed seating because its the only room with a view out onto the landscape, a sniper would have a tough time taking that shot. No windows, again no way for a sniper to take a shot. The additional emergency blast doors that will counter a siege. The super thick and probably bulletproof glass on the Livingroom sliding doors. All balconies being obscured by thick concrete walls. Also that tub is highly suspicious, my intuition tells me that the bottom of it slides out to reveal a staircase that leads down into the basement saferoom. Notice at 20:19 Enes walks past a moss wall, the person who designed the interior doesn't strike me as a person who likes nature in their home so why the wall? Well after looking closely you will see at that this frame, there is a feint outline of a trapezoid in the moss wall lined up with the staircase, its a hidden door... probably to the safe room also. This is Its beyond doubt built for someone who is in very real danger of being assassinated as soon as their enemies get a chance.
@@ArvinHaddadOfficial No need for that; the f'in glass staircase without any railing is a death trap in itself.
It's a urinal.
Design inspired by BUNKER is dead on
This is the worst house I've seen on your channel.
It's like a sensory deprivation experiment, gone horribly wrong.
There's really nothing positive about the house itself, all the positivity is in the location, which you don't even get a view of from most rooms!
If you are a psychiatrist, this is a good house for you patients.......You can lock them.......
Ex machina
@@ChadWilson dude, the ex machina house is awesome, full of nature views. i think it is a hotel in norway of something. this is indeed the worst prison house ever.
@@alexs36zero, it had elements of enclosure, though. The other place that came to mind was from the Bladerunner movies. I want a room in my future house that is a platform in the middle of an indoor reflecting pool.
100 % the top floor is made to prevent any possibility of being sniped.
It's sniper proof. Definitely built for an individual with high threat to life.
This is the best explanation I’ve seen so far
And keep out zombies haha.
And donwstairs you have showers and bunk beds for the guards...
Definitely intended for a mob boss or very rich and corrupt politician...
Bodyguards sleep in the bunks, shower together. Now it all make sense
Honestly this entire house reminds me of an upscale prison with the narrow closets, the capsule hotel kids bedroom, the security doors, all the slick surfaces asking for slips and falls, the bath trench. Whoever designed this place hates people.
Bath trench is a good description. "Honey, where are you going?" I've had a long day at the office. I'm going to soak in the bath trench for a while."
@@angelakelley7546 yeah, it does make me think of Nordic/Scandinavian prisons. Interesting comparison. It's a whole other subject but the prisons in those countries are nicer than many non-convicts' living conditions in America and elsewhere. There is something to be said about how those countries view penitence and rehabilitation.
The guy made this into a fortress. Those bunk beds aren't for kids, they are for the security staff. There are even dual showers in the "kids bathroom". They are so you can have 24/7 security onsite. The guy pissed off some people. The fact the garage turns into a funnel point that can be sealed is designed to slow/stop the attackers as they have to fight their way up to the higher floors. There are zero windows into the sensitive parts of the house so a sniper cant get you when you are sleeping. If someone wants to "get you" in this house, they need to assault the house and take it floor by floor. If you are person with a lot of enemies, this house is for you.
@@ChristopherVickers so true 👍
Luxury prison is exactly what came to mind when I saw this.
The "bedroom" near the garage, with the desk and 2 chairs facing each other, looks like an interrogation / torture room... 😅
Indeed, immure someone in this house with a white jumpsuit on and it almost becomes white torture!
Thats what I thought too
“YOU GET ON THAT TREADMILL, YOU SON OF A !” 😂😂
And the "kids' room" is not a kids' room: those are private security staff's bunk beds.
It goes with the rest of the modern prison motiff.
Whoever built this house was trying to keep something from escaping.
Would make a great safe house. No sniper threat, luxury, and room in the basement for military/security personnel.
Exactly...Arvin totally missed it on this one. It was designed like that for a specific purpose
"I come in peace 👽" type house
@@friedrichweitzer3071 --- Unless the sniper is on a slightly slopped roof. Ohhh maybe that is just a weakness of the Secret Service.
@@friedrichweitzer3071yes, many of the design features of this house clearly point to being secure from outside threats. Otherwise they make absolutely no sense, unless it is some sort of repurposed bunker or similar.
The sharp stone corners in all the wet areas (pool and bathrooms) are deadly looking.
The glass staircases have no handrails? They must really hate Grandma. And the kid’s bathroom has two glass shower areas in the same room? Why??? Are the children supposed to shower at the same time, in full view of each other? Just No!!! This is what happens when an architect has never met actual, human people.
Someone hates their own self when drunk....
@@def1ghi Don't wear socks coming down the stairs!
@@danilee4738hell, better not have sweaty feet
Looks designed to be breakable in case of house invasion to be honest
So much wrong in this!!
Respectfully this property is a hot mess, No front door. the whole vibe is giving a hospital surgery room and an insane asylum combined.
I think its probably a safehouse for some organised crime boss or something, every detail just screams 'I don't want to get sniped'
The garage entry, you are in your bulletproof car and are immediately safe in your garage with big thick doors. The Livingroom has recessed seating because its the only room with a view out onto the landscape, a sniper would have a tough time taking that shot. No windows, again no way for a sniper to take a shot. The additional emergency blast doors that will counter a siege. The super thick and probably bulletproof glass on the Livingroom sliding doors. All balconies being obscured by thick concrete walls. Also that tub is highly suspicious, my intuition tells me that the bottom of it slides out to reveal a staircase that leads down into the basement saferoom. Notice at 20:19 Enes walks past a moss wall, the person who designed the interior doesn't strike me as a person who likes nature in their home so why the wall? Well after looking closely you will see at that this frame, there is a feint outline of a trapezoid in the moss wall lined up with the staircase, its a hidden door... probably to the safe room also. This is Its beyond doubt built for someone who is in very real danger of being assassinated as soon as their enemies get a chance.
@@Gyandhi-mx3tw Don’t go swimming then as you could be shot from the neighbouring field. 😂
@@Ali-Bea Yeah the pool would probably be used by the lesser/non targets, the person who bought the house probably wouldn't use the pool
Most claustrophobic mansion, like ever.
Vacation home for a foreign politician at risk for assassination.
Or it could be the assassin’s lair…..
Or Russian oligarch…
Bolt hole for when the shit hits the fan.
For such a large house this home makes me feel very claustrophobic. It’s so closed in. Just watching it I find it difficult to breath
I’m glad you’re finally reviewing this house. This monstrosity has long been one of my least favorite houses. Straight up, I would go insane if I had to spend even one night there. The house gives off “get out” vibes right and left. The only area I liked was the side yard. If I ended up stuck at this house for some unfortunate reason, I’d pitch a tent in the side yard and stay there.
thanks for recommending it
hahaha yes and the swimming pool and the lounge next to it
“Chérie, everyone gets a wall! Don’t worry!” 😂😂😂
My editor cut 75% of that …. I went off there for a couple mins …. Only 25% made it to the final
Plus each room is equipped with its own straitjacket! 😅
The Prison Architecture
This guy must have been afraid of snipers. He wanted outdoor space but without views. Very suspicious.
I've worked on many golf courses and there are major negatives that realtors don't share when selling a golf course property that I have ended up dealing with. Big ones no thinks of are the maintenance crew equipment is loud and they work early and 7 days a week. Also, your yard may be dangerous to be in, and the house may be in danger of getting hit, especially if you live on the right side of a golf hole. This house is located next to the tee so that's better. There are also privacy concerns
This is a fact. I live near Wentworth Estate in UK which has a PGA golf course and they work 7 days a week from morning till almost evening. There will be trucks, maintenance vehicles, patrol & utility vehicles, most likely some construction going on etc... I would think whoever lives right next to the course probably uses it as a holiday home because it's not ideal to live there full-time.
I worked at a local course when I was 15 year old and I had always thought wanting a house on the greens seemed so weird. No privacy, noise, and balls flying at your house and yard! They were these big expensive mansions! Definitely not my vibe.
I remember one of the home owners would come to the club all the time and bitch about the balls going into his yard and I remember thinking he was such an old doofus! "wow really the ball almost hit your window?? that's shocking!!" LOL.
I would never buy a house on a golf course. I think it’s a negative.
Thanks for sharing
@@alyross3081 It certainly has it's negatives but it also has its positives, especially huge golf courses that have a huge circumference and radius. For example, when I lived in the London, you don't have as much free space away from all the noise, pollution and just open space and privacy + there's so much crime, you can't even wear a nice watch without potentially being targeted.
Now where I live which is just outside of London, you can walk around for miles, clean air, nice strolls, besides the constant maintenance, it's peaceful, great network, ambience, a lot of golf courses where you find private estates are very exclusive so it's not like a bunch of strangers are just visiting in droves every day. So my local course is Wentworth Club which costs around £175k or about $225k to join and then an annual fee of over $10k, so unless you're a member or resident people won't just be wandering in which is a perk.
I would say, maybe don't buy it right on the course but maybe a 5-7 minute walk from the course would be ideal just so you can live on a quiet section of the overall estate where there isn't much maintenance or vehicles passing through. The section where I live, you're pretty much only going to hear nature, very light winds, it's perfect.
It’s a beautiful home for a James Bond villain with his henchmen sleeping in a basement bunk bedroom.
Knowing Enes videos, when he knocked on the floating stainless steel fire place, I have to admit, I thought it was going to reveal a hidden giant dish washer 😂
That would've been the best thing about this terrible house.
I couldn’t stop laughing after I pictured that scene. You are so funny 😂 and so true. Thank You 🙏
22:21 Agree. This was built for someone afraid of an assassination attempt. The room with the window was probably the guest bedroom. lol
26:29 That's the gun/arrow slit. lol.
31:12 😲
23:51 The narrow hallway is also a security feature. They are often called *illing floors by swat, since one person at the other end can stop an entire swat team from advancing. The length and narrowness forces people into a single line, so only one attacker can act, while the length makes shure there's no cover to slowly advance.
I agree with you Arvin. This house is a modern asylum. Who was the designer running from?
Themself.
@@mfitzburger5137 That was deep
I never knew a £10 million property could ever be classed as depressing.😂
11:11 this reminds me of those solitary confinement spaces they have in maximum security prisons
Gotta admire Enes for keeping a straight face
Feels like this was built for an army-general-turned-startup-founder where he keeps his employees downstairs to work and watch him swim
Small bedrooms, a joke of a kitchen, a bathtub that is probably a hazard, claustrophobic theme all throughout the house, and I’m only halfway through the video. TITTLE DID NOT LIE!!
Thanks 🙏🏼 I changed the title setup for this one
Enes the type of guy who shows you a glas door, tells you it's a glass door, opens it and tells you you can open it....
Thanks Enes
BUT did you know that you can in fact open it?
@@talmiz101imagine this guy has brain worms after all these years rambling all the same phraaes over and over. Imagine u visit a friend and he shows off his flat like this. But all day long... .
It's important to know that the glass doors open.
@@talmiz101 hahahahah
@@mariusvanc true that
Prisons have more windows and better views than this house, horrible, not a single view from inside. This designer was definitely being chased by the mob....
Definitely a great safe house for a chased mobster boss, or the DGSI.
The void was actualley the prison yard because the tenants are required 1 hour of out door exercise per 24 hours if they live i this house.
LOL, I know a few maximum security prisons with better views than this place!
the house looks like a Hitman 3 map.
Bonus points if you deal with the target by pushing them through the glass in the bedroom so they fall down....
😂
I thought of Hitman when I seen this house. It reminds me of the "Christmas party" level, including the glass swimming pool where you get extra points for shooting someone through it.
This house feels like where they quarantine a rich prisoner in a dystopian futuristic thriller.
"It's incredibly private." - Yes, after walking through the closet to get to the tiny bedroom, you get a giant window that reveals a completely blocked view by a concrete wall. And the baffling thing that this was intentional - this isn't the result of a bad remodel that is trying to stay cheap and work around existing walls & beams. Baffling. In fact the entire house is an odd balance of small/narrow and expansiveness. The scale is just so inconsistent and the assistance of blocking the view is baffling.
Owner: "How to we keep golf balls from hitting the windows?"
Architect: "I know: we'll put large cement walls in front of the windows!"
Owner: "Brilliant! Can you also keep the hallways narrow, make people walk through closets to get to the bedrooms, and mess up the scale in general throughout the home?"
Architect: "Done!"
The narrow passageways are easily defendable in case of an invasion. 🤣
@@rangerrecon it's obvious to me with the blocked views, security doors, single garage entry, etc. that this home was designed to keep a lot more than golf balls out.
@@keithclayton1271 I agree. Additionally, there may have been safe rooms and other defensive measures not shown in the tour for security reasons. It just seems odd to put such a home on a golf course where your paying for a fairway view and securing the perimeter of the home would be more difficult.
@@rangerrecon I mean, with about 1/4 of your perimeter being a mostly flat, open golf course that is one quarter you're least likely to have to defend from.
@@rangerrecon and I agree, there's probably a ton of stuff in this structure that wasn't shown on camera... probably has a security office hooked in to video surveillance which they'd not want the public to be aware of.
This is where royal families lock up their naughty kids with security to prevent them from leaving the place 😂
The layout of this is actually impressive, it gives you privacy from the outside which by the looks of it seems to be rather uninhabitated anyway whilst designing every bedroom as well as the kid's bathroom in a way that allows/forces the people living in the house to violate each other's privacy. This must have been designed by a highly paranoid voyeur which is quite the funny juxtaposition.
Excellent observation
@@tobiasrockel Thank you :)
😂😂😂
The thing that struck me is that assuming the bunker idea was intentionnal to lure in paranoid clients that may fear home intrusions or snipers or whatever. There's still huge security flaws from what we could see. The middle part is half glass panels with no additionnal bunker doors to protect them. So the house doesn't seem that harder to breach than any other house anyway.
It's confusing. There's some ideas here and there that can be salvaged, but overall, it's a very strange construction.
Unless the glass is some high tech bullet proof glass. Or maybe there were metal panels that dropped down. There seemed to be a lot of space above to hold them.
Thanks so much for choosing this episode Arvin! Your content selections just get better and better.
Glad you think so!
It’s a perfect house, perfect for one of those weird movies where neither the director nor the writers understand what’s going on, screened at those strange film festivals where no one knows what’s happening, and they just call it 'art' and tax evasion.
This is the typical house built by an architect, for an architect where nobody really wants to live there.
Damn Enes will even call a turd seamless 😂
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11:03 the "massive" kitchen island where one person has to eat directly out of the sink
This House looks like straight from one of those "futuristic horror movies" where a "Crazy doctor" keeps his cloned wife captive, or some scientist built a "Humanoid robot female" and keeps it in there to abuse it, some stuff like that 🤣
Human Centipede house
@@QBAN2010 For me, it's where the creator of Ex-machina keeps his android girlfriend.
@@largol33t1 yup, that too!
Having the henchmen's dormitory opposite the interrogation chamber, is a great move, but I'm not so sure about the long narrow corridor leading away though, looks like they could be gunned down as they have to exit in single file.
Those closed courtyards with open roofs also seem like a problem, if someone just chucks a hand grenade over the wall there's no escape and the blast will be really amplified. That said, it will contain most of the mess.
"I'm the how to buy a trailer guy. I buy trailers for my clients, I critique trailers, I consult on trailer design." -Arvin in an alternate universe
yeah that guy is more my speed 😶
They would probably call them "mobile modular homes" instead of a trailer home lol
@@channingtaintum where’s the “How to rent a 300sq foot studio for under $1500 in chicago” guy, and hopefully his partner “How to fit all your shit in a 300sq foot studio” guy
With a camo baseball cap he ran through the dishwasher rubber banded to a 2 liter Coke bottle, 4 dips in his mouth, & says “HOTDOG!” whenever he gets excited.
I actually critiqued a trailer home in malibu … it’s somewhere in my channel find it 😂 it’s the old format
All those walls screening the bedrooms, maybe Arvin is right when he says of the owner of the house 'some people were looking for him.'
I was expecting the stainless steel artwork to suddenly open up like a dishwasher when Enes nocked on it. 😂
Knock knock ✊🏽… I would have stopped filming
Eight bunk beds? Eight? Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, but eight? And two, GLASS showers next to each other for the KIDS? I'm sure all the kids who are at least 12 months apart each (assuming the adults in the house are the parents) are going to want to shower together. Kids ranging across 8 years. And big metal doors to lock everyone in. And no windows to draw out the big letters H-E-L-P on?
Glass, glass AND MORE GLASS? I like glass, but at some point I DON'T WANT SO MUCH GLASS. And i like minimal design but I DON'T WANT A SENSORY DEPRIVATION CHAMBER.
Modern architecture?😂
This house is so hideous, I won't even live in here for free.
Amen. My anxiety spiked just watching this.
(And I don’t even suffer from anxiety).
If the guy is worried about assassination, he shouldn’t have his toilet facing an open courtyard!
The first flor bedroom gives me claustrophobia just watching the video! Also, I love your art appreciation class, that’s hilarious. „life is meaningless, but the stainless steel version“😂
This is what I imagine "Luxuy Solitary Confinement" in prison looks like
😂
The house is at 43°32'56.36"N, 5°23'5.53"E. (or search Golf d'Aix-en-Provence, there you will see it)
1) There is even a bigger pillar box house right next to it. So on the map, this house looks like the guest house of the other "main" house.
2) The privacy of this house is not thought through. Yes, you have perfect privacy in most parts of the house, but at the main parts, the big pool and the main living room, everyone from the golf course can take a look at you.
3) Instead of a family living there, this house would be more suited for a Hugh Hefner type of playboy, who wants to throw a NSFW party.
😂 ARVIN! I'm learning so much from you. Where's the front door?? What if you have a party? People come through the garage? I ❤ your laugh. THE VOIDS! Keep up the good work.
The thing missing in this bunker house is a super duper secure food storage room so you can hole up for years if being assaulted from the golf course
Ok, i'm only half way in. I lost it at the tub. lol. It appears the builder doesn't like Heavy Set folks. The shower will collapse and the tub you have to turn to wash half of your body. Arvin you are a mess. 😂
That "bedroom" downstairs is an interrogation room. Look how the desk is set up. And then they make the prisoner run the treadmill until they give up information.
I thought the worst of all was the lack of direct sunlight inside the house, the humidity must be unbearable, but the entrance through the garage leading to the bathroom doesn't make any sense at all. 🤣🤣🤣
This is the perfect hiding place for a Boeing employee who wants to testify in court and doesn't want to bite the dust early.
Take a shot every time Enes says “seamless”
A modern interpretation of an underground Titan II ICBM Launch Facility (you can tour one in Arizona).
This place gave me instant creepy vibes. I would be the one outside, looking for golf balls, when they closed the blast doors and locked the place down.
Seriously, the stupidest house I’ve ever seen. Only two potential buyers: Dr. Evil, or the neighborhood Pedo.
(Enes must be paying Mikey a couple hundred grand a year not to start a channel doing “behind the camera” critiques of his videos. Luckily, we have Arvin doing it instead).
This pill box is a tear down project
Explosives involved.
7:15 " goes well with the organic lines of this home" that house is the antithesis of organic. Also that first room he shows has a gap above the en suite, to waste space and gather dust, just like the pointless cell behind the window wall... could have put a garden in there at least.
Your pivot in content and format is a real lesson for all.
This house looks like an upscale prison for an alien experiment.
Mark Rothko created a series of paintings for a restaurant in New York. He later admitted that he wanted to make customers vomit. Arvin knows how to troll!
How not to troll this house?
@@benttranberg2690 No way!
He sounds like a jackass
This is the first of your videos I see... You're a really kind person, you were so nice to this horrendous "house". I wouldn't be surprised if they found the Minotaour if they roam around long enough.
For this price, in the same area, you can get a cool castle with 10 hectars park.
Take 5 hectars away and with the saved money install bullet proofed windows and doors if you are afraid of snipers and you still live in a lovely castle.
That's squash court in the bedroom is the most depressing thing I've seen on this channel
ARVIN'S REACTIONS ARE SO NATURAL AND FUNNY..... LOVE THE GUY
It feels like big brother reality tv house set re-scaped as a house
I think the architect was an American. “Hey, let’s not make an entrance, people just drive anyway.” 🤣🤣🇺🇸
lol.. golf side properties are a plus right up until a golf ball comes though your 300 grand window or that lovely glass pool
@20:06 I’m over those living walls😝
Same. Looks so 70’s.
The architect was afraid of windows. Hardly any natural light and ventilation, many of the rooms are dark corridors using artificial light. Also you never want to use such large glass panes on a sliding track because over time the weight is going to be a problem. That stainless steel flue has been popular for about 20 years now and someone can easily get burned if they touch that thing. I feel sorry for any plumber that must work there, he better have a maglite torch. Would love to see the brief for this death trap. If people want to break in, they better bring a generator with them in case there is a blackout.
The outdoor spaces can be saved by covering up the concrete with natural elements but the rest of it is beyond saving.
The TV is also parallel to the window instead of facing away from it so you're also gonna get a ton of reflections on the screen
It's an underground prison! Those "private outdoor jail exercise yards" at least add some plants. And that sunken tub! That will be your grave when you backup and fall into it hitting your head. Call it the claustrophobia bunker. And there's a golf course to see. But only in one room? Agree this is the most ridiculous excuse for a home i have ever seen. And that chrome chimney should be an extra 8 feet up. All in all a real stunner.
Inspiration for this design: getting stuck at Tetris level 1 😂
I wonder if Enes does his videos now going "damn Arvin is gonna grill me on that one" mid sentence.
Im so happy. I was waiting for you talk about that one. I got so confuse when watch this house for First time. Like, Who is the mean target? A Very rich Mob? A rich witness protection Program? Its so not what I expect from a Provence house
This would make a great set piece for a horror movie.
18:09 Oh I get it now. This house was made for a mafia boss who was afraid of getting offed 😂😂😂
Your laughing had me LMAO --- Arvin, you are exceptional at your work!
Thanks 🙏🏼❤️😂
No front door where can only go thru the garage doors that are heavy duty. I’m sure was done for safety reasons. How is ‘anyone’ going to just walk in - is a safety design.
Same with the long and narrow hallways/walk in closets. These are perfect for a defensive position. This thing is a prison/ bunker mashup.
With challenges come opportunities.
The bare nature of the enclosed patios can be countered in few fashions, such as:
- Olive trees planted in large pots.
- Big scale contemporary art (sculptures).
- Outdoor Cinema projector (bedroom).
The anti-sniper upper floor is different
This house could be improved a LOT by adding a ton of beautiful plants. Loads and loads of gorgeous green, arranged in a natural way. The way it is rn, it looks dead and depressing. Even the "living" wall looks pretty much dead and unappealing...
I watched this at 3 am and laughed and laughed. Like crying laughing. Phew. If I win the lottery I’m hiring you. Arvin. No doubt about it
This house design could be used for a counter strike map.
"It's really good if you really gotta go" 🤣
OK you actually had me laughing on this one. This home reminds of Mexico City because so many luxury homes are walled off and full of security features.
Already feeling claustrophobic by watching the video outdoors
It would make a good set for a horror movie. There should be a scene where the victim glances at the killer through that swimming pool window, complete with high-pitched violin jump scare music.
You’re definitely right, I feel CIA hide out high value prisoner, cartel leader, Osamas summer house etc. someone on the who’s hiding out- that’s who this home is actually for. And I feel that’s what it was actually commissioned for. And it’s served it’s use and is now for sale
If I bought it, I would paint on the roof “the bad guys are gone, they moved! Carol Brady lives here now with her bunch”
Witness protection program!
OMG I was getting claustrophobic. Absolutely a prison . Also so many fall risks , sunken coffin bath, sunken seating area that you'd fall into from outside when the window is opened. Worst house ever.
“hello enes where is the front door”
🤭🤭 right out of the gate (with no door)
I'd say there are strong elements of brutalism here, but I think pill box revival covers it. The narrow hallways, the poor planning for things like the fireplace or air circulation, the death trap sunken tub (it is a coffin, because at 2am you'll be trying to navigate to the "kitchen" to get a snack and fall in the pit trap of a tub and be found cold and lifeless in the morning by the security team that lives in the bunk room downstairs), the weird courtyard spaces that seem to be afterthoughts... the not kitchens... the lack of front door.... just... all of it is so bad. I did get a good laugh from your reactions, though, so thanks!
Imagine being in a $10M home like this, and being thankful just to have a bedroom window. This was done on a bright day. But in any other room that isn't the living room, it would feel like a prison at night.
Where better to put a house with 100 floor-to-ceiling glass walls than next to a golf course. Gee, what could go wrong? This is not to mention that several of the glass walls are holding back a swimming pool of water.
I hope nothing happens to the backup power because entering and leaving through the garage is not good if something should happen.
I have a friend with a pretty big house and whenever I'm in it everything feels out of scale. This is reminding me of it. The super high ceilings with narrow hallways always feel dumb to me. And it would be hard to decorate this house to the point where it felt like a house.
It’s great to see Arvin having as much fun with this as we are.
This one was fun
Of course my initial reaction was "WHO would live in such a soulless, clinical space in the heart of AIX EN PROVENCE?" Then I realized that this building was probably not built or intended as a residence. I suspect it was created as either a spy meeting center, or some kind of retreat/meeting space for a corporation/financial organization involved in some very dangerous activities, where being as invisible as possible was the primary goal. Or, it's just a popmpous and stupid architect's vanity project....sigh....BLEAH! Thanks as always for another hilarious review, Arvin!
Soviet era brutalism!