The brick-clad Nithurst Farm contains grand concrete rooms that are modelled on the Russian science-fiction film, Stalker.
British architect Adam Richards designed the house, which replaced an old farmworker's cottage in the countryside near the town of Petworth, England, as his own home.
It is intended to evoke the ruin of a Roman villa and contains unexpectedly contemporary interiors characterised by the building's exposed concrete structure.

The ground floor of Nithurst Farm has a tapered plan that moves from a giant, hall-like kitchen and dining room into a bright sitting room.
This layout is modelled on the story of post-apocalyptic film Stalker by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film follows the expedition of three men through The Zone in search for The Room ? a mythical place where a person's deepest desires are rumoured to come true.
"My take on the character of The Zone in the film is that it's structured like a religious space ? like a church or a chapel ? and it has these concrete blocks down the side and this great wash of light at the end," Richards told Dezeen.
"So there's a sense that progressing through the space is this sort of journey to a sort of more spiritual place," he explained.

As in the film, the layout of the ground floor is designed to take visitors on a journey, beginning in the hall ? a kitchen and dining room with a grand 4.5-metre-high ceiling that is symbolic of The Zone.
Around its edges, the hall has six inte...