Close your eyes, put down that stapler you were going to throw at Scott in the billing department, and imagine your dream home. It looks exactly like that time you played mini-golf while on acid, doesn’t it? Of course it does. Well, weirdo, you’re in luck, because the manse of your fantasies exists in Naucalpan, Mexico. Behold! The Nautilus:

The clients, a young couple with two children who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The land, with upward topography, is limited to the south, north and east by high buildings. The west adjoining provides a wide view of the mountains. The model work generated numberless changes until achieving the volume needed by the construction: the Nautilus.

What. In. The holy hell. Does any of this mean? Surely there is some more “archispeak” we can use to further confuse people into thinking this looks like something other than a hippie abortion. Perhaps it is all a metaphor:

The metaphor was to feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister. This home social life flows inside the Nautilus without any division, a harmonic area in three dimensions where you can notice the continuous dynamic of the fourth dimension when moving in spiral over the stairs with a feeling of floating over the vegetation.

Translation: The owners are rich and, as such, are allowed to be as tacky and weird as they please but they have so much money it’s referred to instead as “whimsy” and “eccentricity.” That said, we would totally live in this house.

Living in a Shell [World Architecture News]