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News: Spanish architect Luis de Garrido has designed a conceptual mansion that looks like a football for Argentine footballer Lionel Messi (+ slideshow).

The One-Zero Eco-House designed by Luis de Garrido features a two-storey property shaped like a football. It is proposed for the Llavaneres Sant Andreu municipality – 36 kilometres north of Barcelona, Spain – and intends to reflect the interests and lifestyle requirements of FC Barcelona and Argentina footballer Lionel Messi.

From above, the building looks like a football with a hexagonal-shaped centre and six walls angled outwards from each point.

The property would be entered via a block at the edge of a rectangular plot and a path crosses a lawn leading up to the main house. A large pool surrounds the rear half of the building.

De Garrido’s renderings show how wooden decking would surround all sides of the property on the ground and first floors. Most of the roof would be covered in turf and a glass roof would cover the rear of the mansion.

The design forms part of the 33 BIP VIP (33 Architectural Birthday Presents for Very Important People) architectural research project to design conceptual eco-houses for 33 celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Barack Obama, Beyonce, Brad Pitt, James Cameron, Johnny Depp, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Hawkins.

“The homes are designed specifically for each person and are completely personalised according to the information we have obtained from their life and career,” explained the designers.

The project is led by Luis de Garrido and managed by research centres National Association for Sustainable Architecture (ANAS) and the International Federation for Sustainable Architecture (IFSA).

“These advanced homes should be able to be real, and therefore must be designed to fully meet the needs of each of the persons elected,” explained the designers. “At the same time [they] should serve as a reference for future generations, for different manifestations of a new paradigm in architecture, perfectly integrated into the natural ecosystem.”

Luis de Garrido, known for his work in sustainability, has also designed conceptual celebrity mansions including an eye-shaped property with a central done for supermodel Naomi Campbell. He is a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the Master in Sustainable Architecture in Spain.

Earlier today we also published a story on a concept for a transparent football that changes colour when it passes over the goal line.

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Images are courtesy of Luis de Garrido.

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