Tunnel House
Isn’t it great how creativity kicks in when times running out. Take for example this incredible and beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished…. I’m guessing they saw any opportunity to do something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden warp zone! More pics after the jump.(including whats at the end of the tunnel)
via hemmy
A few pics via Kevin Omara
CLICK on above image for MUCH larger image!!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
That is amazing. It reminds me of the final moments of the house in the movie ‘Poltergeist’.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:03 am
for sure, it’s trippy!
June 26th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Very cool, what do the neighbors think?
June 26th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Wow! Nice
June 27th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Cool! It’s really amazing! When a hole in a great building, for example a skyscraper?:-p
June 29th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
the neighbors must be freaking
June 30th, 2007 at 8:02 am
It’s awesome i hope the people don’t use it as an garbage garbage can
June 30th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Wow! Our minds really does create reality! It that case, spirits must be fiction; science fiction.
And, God! Well, our minds created “Him.” Because, there can’t be a “Father” and “Son” without a Mother.
Oh, I love these photos, my mind is racing with ideas!
Thanks Dan. Thanks Dean for sharing such wonderful creativity!
June 30th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Did anyone get splinters?
June 30th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Nobody should demolish this great installation!!!!
June 30th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
That is so amazingly creative.
Very refreshing.
July 1st, 2007 at 6:08 am
I always wondered what would happen if somebody managed to divide by zero…
July 1st, 2007 at 9:56 am
YAY! There’s art in Houston! And, now, the world knows.
July 1st, 2007 at 3:35 pm
esta de pocasupinchimadre!
July 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Esta de supiinchisisiisimadre chingon¡
July 1st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Creatively creepy.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
wow! where is this place? it is freaking creative, my mind cannot stop spinning, well done.
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 am
Una muy buena idea para desarrollarse
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:39 am
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July 2nd, 2007 at 7:12 am
Wow, props to the artists, the open minded house owner and neighbors. Life is grand
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
More than amazing!
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
High Fiveee. So niceeee.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:01 am
nad ass.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:54 am
FUCK TUNEL HOUSE!
July 4th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
fucking brilliant…
July 4th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Imagine walkin down the street trippin and finding this house. wow!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
cheers from Mexico for the tunnel house
July 4th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
I used to live right next to that! I was on campus at the college down there when I was dancing at the Houston Ballet Academy. I walked past it, and was like, oh. That’s niffty.
Then, two years later, no more dance, a probably unhealthy obsession with street art, and BAM! Here it is!
July 5th, 2007 at 3:18 am
esta bieeen conmadreee!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Geeee, this is just amazing. But, I mean, how much time and effort did this take ???
July 5th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Muy buena idea!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:08 am
good project!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I agree with “c a” – This is like Gordon Matta-Clark — but INVERTED!!! haha – Thanks for the photos!
July 5th, 2007 at 11:36 am
This is wild, one of the most creative public pieces of art I have seen in a long time. Brilliant. I’m very impressed. Thank you for sharing it.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
1 word WOW!!!!!!!!!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I never follow links on that smarmy, pretentious Wooster site, but glad I did this time!!! Shit’s hella dope! I thought it was painted from the thumbnail.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
wicked!!!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hello,
A very interesting new version of “Arte pobera”.
Congratulations!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Next, a tunnel to china.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
and it’s air conditioned!
July 7th, 2007 at 1:07 am
TEMPORARILY PERFECT!!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!
procrastination = creation!
…destruction = creation?
July 7th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Inversion – Eine Hausinstallation…
Die amerikanischen Bildhauer Dan Havel und Dean Ruck haben 2005 in ein Haus eine Art Vortex gebaut. Inversion nennen sie das entstandene Kunstwerk, das wie ein Tunnel durch das Haus hindurch führt.
Leider hatte diese schräge Konstruktion nur eine se…
July 8th, 2007 at 3:31 am
everything in this place ,whats real with whats concieved ,who we are to reason ,what it is that I cannot see ,living in exsentence why is reality touch taste and smell living with our sencenses whose to say our sense is real
July 8th, 2007 at 3:51 am
I guessing these guys are fans of one of my favorite childhood movies “Time Bandits” This looks like you could step through it and kill a minotaur with Sean Connery any time you wanted. I wish there were more creative structures like this that made me feel like I could walk through dimensions and space like this one. nice work.
July 8th, 2007 at 4:06 am
So cool. With all the asinine stuff going on in the world, its’ nice to see someone having fun being human.
July 8th, 2007 at 6:26 am
The neighbors were already accustomed to “interesting” things happening next door. The house was occupied by the Art League of Houston and had been used for exhibit space and art classes for over 30 years by then.
Besides, the place would be demolished soon anyway. The house was on a main thoroughfare and Houston has no zoning.
July 8th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Why do you morons say “after the jump” when you have it all on one page? Learn what stuff means before you start writing it.
July 8th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Ted…cause your on the “jump” page. The main page only has the top images and text..
July 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Now thats what I call a hole in the wall house! LoL Still cool though.
July 8th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
that is sooooooooo amazing!!!!!!! i
July 8th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Who’s the moron now Ted?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:44 am
MUito bom !!!
July 9th, 2007 at 1:03 am
a donde va el tunel?
Es impactante, la primera foto sale un hombre bastante desarrollado y finaliza y/o remata con una chica de diez.
me pone feliz. Abrazos latinos
Mujer Gallina
July 9th, 2007 at 8:36 am
What a great idea! Turning an eyesore into a wonderful peice of real-life, in your face art. Awesome
July 9th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Won’t be ong before Rosie Odonnell blames this on President Bush.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
That house was a pretty cool place. I took some pictures inside the tunnel with my friends about 2 years ago so I’m pretty sure the place has been demolished by now. It was a nice addition to the Houston art community while it lasted. It would’ve been great to keep it around a bit longer, but in a town where historic houses are demolished all the time to make room for cardboard townhomes that sell for $300,000+, good luck with that.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Why do you have to bring God into this? This has nothing to do with religion. By the way, Rosie Odonnell has already bitched about it. Nice use of architecture and creativity.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Montrose, Houston…!! I used to live three blocks from here… and remember the house going up…
July 11th, 2007 at 12:02 am
This makes me wet.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
will I ever be as bored as the owner of this thing?
July 12th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
this is amazing, I love it
July 12th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
How wonderful to see old structures turned into art space. We should see more Art like this.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
this is super, wonderful idea!!!
July 13th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I like, I like. how much?
July 14th, 2007 at 1:25 am
I’d like to cram my whole cock into that hole and fuck the house hard!!
July 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
damn who put acid in my frosted flakes?
July 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Some context, please: Where is/was this, and when was it constructed?
July 17th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Suit…if you did a bit of clicking and reading, you’d realize this was done a few yrs ago in houston TX.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Creepy sh!t
July 17th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I dreamed this few time ago!!!
July 18th, 2007 at 10:09 am
i like that type of big hole.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Looks FUN!
July 18th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I like it. Where is it, I’d like to visit and try it out. Send me directions and location.
July 19th, 2007 at 7:29 am
reaaaaaaaaaaally creative!!! i love it!
July 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am
cheers!!! breaking the neighborhood bored line
like a perspective visual game implosive black hole
regards!!
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July 19th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Our house looks like that all the time, what’s the big deal?
July 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I live in Austin, but periodically visit Houston museums every few months. I didn’t know this was up, but drove by it and nearly had an accident trying to pull over somewhere to take pictures. Some fun projects pop up on Montrose… The local Houston art scene does have some redeeming qualities after all! =D
July 20th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Reminds me of “Monster House”
July 21st, 2007 at 3:40 pm
that is a trip
all too creative
July 22nd, 2007 at 5:22 am
wow i love it i want to walk through it
i want a go
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Stumble is a wonder break in my life. Its design, art , brain work candy for my mind.
Ken
July 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
cool! so cool!i
cool!so cool! i
there is a amazingly creative
July 26th, 2007 at 3:54 am
This is grand.
It is the very nature of the artistic mindset to take what normally presents itself as a problem to be removed or resolved somehow and to view it instead as an opportunity. All of life’s beauty comes from this way of thinking.
As for the Below quote from the above poster. Please don’t use the accomplishments of more creative minds than your own to justify your erroneous beliefs about reality? please.
“Wow! Our minds really does create reality! It that case, spirits must be fiction; science fiction.
And, God! Well, our minds created “Him.†Because, there can’t be a “Father†and “Son†without a Mother.
Oh, I love these photos, my mind is racing with ideas!
Thanks Dan. Thanks Dean for sharing such wonderful creativity! “
July 26th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
What is the point of destroying it? Really cool Any splinters?
July 28th, 2007 at 10:36 am
niceeee
fiquei impressionado….
fantastico!
July 30th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
That is so great!! Who would have thought of that? I bet it took a lot of work to finish it! Super bad ass!
August 1st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
thats what my old house looked like untill it collapsed….now i live in a box
August 6th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
dude. i want one of those!
August 8th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Es algo muy creativo y desde otro punto ………. esta con madre !
August 9th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Just so everyone knows, this installation was taken down almost a year ago. It was cool while it lasted.
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 am
coolest shit ever….I love it!
September 11th, 2007 at 7:04 am
[...] An installation by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck involving a doomed house. >CLICK ME< [...]
September 15th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
holy nailgun!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
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September 25th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
[...] Don’t get sucked in! [...]
September 30th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Can someone tell my where the bathroom is at?
October 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Way cool!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
[...] MORE PICS HERE: [...]
November 8th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
[...] Tunnel House wow! [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 5:53 am
[...] Thanks to Aaron Tang at Design Verb for showcasing this installation. [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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December 20th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Woohaaaa! Vette shit ouwe! Zwaar wapperdiewapsieflap en master! Moeilijk gaaf witte wel! I SURE DO LOVE TUNNELS!
January 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am
It is just halucinogenic
February 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Not seen this before looks dangerous but that’s probably part of the fun. In the uk
they would ban it on safety grounds!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Oh! So that’s where that mini-black hole I was tracking went!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
How am i gonna find my stash now ??! huh!?
February 29th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
that is freaking awesome. they should make more of them
February 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
people this is cool
March 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
WOW!! We cannot believe how cool this house is! We decided to check out your site because we read a story about Frank Lloyd Wright and we learned about his life by reading his biography. We learned he was an architect! We think it would be awesome to visit that house and a slip and slide down and slip through it! We think you should build more of these!
March 12, 2008
March 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Wow! Cool house! Is the house still going to be torn down, or are they going to let it stand as either art or an obvious playground?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:40 am
WoW!amazing and yea..it is trippy enough!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
yeah man. shit. this is amazing
how could anyone demolish this! they should build a museum around it.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Great Work — were they tripping!!! lots of splinters.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:54 am
This looks like something out of Poltergeist, but even cooler since no movie magic was used.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Q cojon es eso?¿ O.O
September 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am
esta muy bueno, la percepcion es como de traspaso a otra dimension , la idea esta genial ojala aca en chile se hagan intervenciones asi. felicitaciones
November 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm
great post, that house looks cool to visit but never to live. it really does look like something out of the movie poltergeist =)
January 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Very cool. The things people come up with.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
too cool
April 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
This is really cool. Another example of the fun things that can be done in the architecture world, even if it is just for fun.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you from the Spanish architectural magazine* /PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA Y CRITICA* /(Passages of Architecture and Critique).
/PASAJES/ is the only architectural magazine distributed on a monthly basis in Spain. It is also currently the bestselling architectural magazine in Spain. /PASAJES/ is not only widely distributed in Spain, but also in Portugal and Latin America. A normal issue consists of 48 full-colour pages of 269×354 mm size (a bit smaller than A3), and has several sections: News, Building Analysis, Interviews, Brief Essays, Trips, Exhibitions and Books.
We are planning the next Pasajes, which is number *109*, and it is going to be a special issue about dwelling and the experimental innovation in the domestic space.
I am writing to express /Pasajes’/ interest in publishing *
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck’s TUNNEL HOUSE
we donn’t know how to contact the artist, so we would like to ask you if you could give us his mail for contact him
Thank you for your time and I´ll be looking forward to receive your reply soon.
Kind regards,
Luis Rodriguez
redactor pasajes
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PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA Y CRITICA
Avda. de Ramon y Cajal, 60. 28016 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 416 00 54
E-mail: pasajes1@dam1.e.telefonica.net
July 9th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
SO AWESOME!!!!!
August 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
awesome
October 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Looks like what happened to the mortgage market in 2008…
April 19th, 2010 at 12:42 am
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May 7th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
[...] click [...]
May 18th, 2010 at 8:53 am
[...] you do when a house down your street is set to be demolished in a few short months? If you’re artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, you have a bit of fun with your neighborhood and create [...]
May 21st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
[...] I felt a surge of Houston pride this afternoon when I opened up Design For Mankind. Even though it was demolished before I moved to Houston, I lived across the street from the site and frequented the coffee shop that replaced the house turned art installation. Check out more pics. [...]
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 am
[...] via Designverb Photos © Kevin [...]
June 25th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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July 2nd, 2010 at 3:21 pm
What is the point of destroying it? Really cool Any splinters?
July 8th, 2010 at 7:03 am
[...] was working up a post about an art project here in Houston (some years ago) called Inversion, when I got distracted. I was in the middle of searching for photos of the the tunnel house, and I [...]
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:45 am
Does someone live here or is it just a tourist attraction??
August 4th, 2010 at 12:58 am
that reminds me of the time that flanders’s house on the simpsons was demolished by a hurricane, only to get rebuilt by the city folk in a terrible fashion
August 11th, 2010 at 10:09 am
[...] Either way it is a great sculpture worthy of remembering. It appears to have had a long run, but has since been removed. There are more photos worth checking out on the Design Verb blog post “Tunnel House.” [...]
September 10th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
[...] Tunnel House, as seen on Home Rejuvenation. Check out the post where they found it over at Designverb – the pictures are pretty [...]
September 22nd, 2010 at 7:07 pm
[...] want a very public piece. They knew about Inversion. But they didn’t want their own Inversion. They didn’t want this huge social piece where they have a lot of people there. With that, [...]
November 29th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
The “Tunnel House” is very cool and original. I love it! Thanks for the post.
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 am
[...] Awesome idea by these two guys to pounce on this soon-to-be destroyed house and turn it into a 3D canvas. Another great example of why public art is so important, and not just in cities. Few kids ever get to experience the wonder of an art museum so public installations like this just might be the thing that lights a spark…maybe the next Red Grooms, Frank Stella, or Frank Gehry crawls through this tunnel house. #supportpublicart Amplify’d from http://www.designverb.com [...]
January 12th, 2011 at 6:13 am
Looks like a really bad accident!!!
January 28th, 2011 at 9:26 am
[...] can see and read more on DesignVerb which is where I spotted this 2007 [...]
February 13th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Very cool!! it is Awsome
February 14th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
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March 1st, 2011 at 9:17 pm
i cant bealive its so coollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,,and bye the way awsem house
April 13th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
splinter heaven!
April 14th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
[...] Dark matter Ah, the old "divide by zero" [...]
October 14th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
it is great and unique Tunnel House. i think it has taken many months to construct it.
December 27th, 2011 at 4:32 am
Crazy idea
October 9th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Very nice idea! And the way people get sucked in looks great