In 1930 French architect Emilio Terry offered a model of a spiral house that he called en colimaçon (“snail-style”), illustrating his view that architecture expressed a “dream to be realized.”

Junji Ito laughs silently.

I absolutely would not want that as a house. But my first thought upon seeing it was "That would make an terrific library."

Heaven knows what dreams you’d have in Bed Room 5, a room in which nothing would ever fit properly.