The Bavinger house, located in Norman, Oklahoma, was built over fifty years ago for Eugene and Nancy Bavinger. Eugene and Nancy both worked as faculty in the art department at the University of Oklahoma at one point in time, so the called their friend and world-renowned architect, Bruce Goff. Goff designed the Bavinger home as a place where art, and nature meet.
The Bavinger house was designed as a logarithmic spiral of sandstone and glass, anchored and spiraling around a recycled drill stem pipe in the center. The spiral wall is composed of two-hundred tons of stone native to the area, complete with the Oklahoma state rock, rose rock, and chunks of aqua-colored melted glass scattered throughout.
All of the rooms in the house are suspended by cables above a living area, with a pond and plants all around. These plants aren't fake plants, they are the same types of plants that grew just outside of the house, making it unclear where nature ends and architecture begins. The bedrooms, are actually carpeted bowl-shaped pods that are suspended from the ceiling as well at different levels. The bowls are open-air, but curtains can be drawn for privacy. Like everything else about this house, there is nothing traditional about the beds; the mattress and box springs are flush with the floor in each bowl.
Unfortunately, this structure has since been destroyed, but this was definitely a unique architectural structure, way beyond its time.
its partially destroyed-you can still see it if you drive out Alameda to 60th and turn north and its on the west side of the road surrounded by bamboo
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