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Multi-coloured: The giant front wall of coloured glass creates a stunning mosaic effect in the living area

Outside the effect is equally as unusual, with the giant 'peak' of the shell evident above

Inspired by the works of architects such as Antoni Gaudi - whose fantastical buildings dominate Barcelona - and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, natural plantings and spiral staircases are located throughout the dwelling.

A young couple with two children from Mexico City said they wanted to live in something closer to nature, and the house was designed to blend in with the natural surroundings in what Senosiain likes to call 'Bio-Architecture'.

Mollusc dreams: Winding pathways and staircases fill the giant inside of the structure with its massive domed roof

Greenery and white walls complement the characterful front wall of colour, with trees growing around a curved 'sofa'

Arquitectura Organica said the goal of the project was to make the inhabitants feel like they were living inside a snail.

Or in the words of the architect, to make the home's dwellers feel 'like a mollusc moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.'

Whether you think it looks like a giant snail or a seashell, these pictures show the construction is certainly something special.

And at the centre of the natural structure... A TV. Check out the size of the surround sofa

Kitchen curves: A stew bubbles away on the strangely normal looking hob. Let's hope that's not snail stew...

Time to do your teeth kids, and can you go a bit faster than snail's pace?

Far out: The curved walls of the Nautilus house resemble a giant shell, or perhaps something out of this world. But, is that a light switch in the foreground?