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Why not put square rooms into your round building and use the voids for closets or some other purpose? The interior shape of a dwelling doesn't have to directly

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Why not put square rooms into your round building and use the voids for closets or some other purpose? Because nonrectangular closets are also awkward to use (moreso than putting furnishings directly on curved or non-right-angle walls, the problem with furnishings is that you have to have them custom made for the wall angles or degree of curvature, which is expensive, but they often aren't inconvenient at all in use.)
  • ghaff 10y ago
    My family used to have a house in Mexico with exterior walls that were circular to greater or lesser degrees. You can make it work. You mostly wanted to be looking out the windows so those walls mostly didn't have furniture against them anyway. And, where you did need seating areas against a curved wall, those were built in. But, as you say, it's hard to just stick in regular rectangular shapes.
• saeranv 10y ago
  Do you mean putting the square rooms in the interior, and creating closets/stairs etc along the awkwardly shaped perimeter? The problem with that is that the space by the perimeter is the most valuable (access to fresh air, light, views) so you actually want to do the opposite.