Words by Claudia Schmidt // Images via Joyce Kim

Complete with a large saltwater aquarium and alpacas roaming outside.

Has Robert Downey Jr. ever screamed large, inflatable house to you? The actor recently offered up a look-see inside his white, dome-like Binishell and its very zen interior, which feels exactly like the kind of abode Tony Stark might choose – if he liked yoga and egg chairs and lived in Malibu.

The 6,500-square-foot house is located on Downey Jr.’s seven-acre estate, which naturally also features a sizeable kidney-shaped pool, a tennis court and a herd of alpacas. The Binishell isn’t even his main home, but merely a place for Downey Jr and his wife to entertain and house guests.

First invented in 1964 by industrial designer, Dante Bini, Binishells work by literally inflating air into a neoprene air bladder covered in a thin shell of concrete. The result is an aerodynamic, bubble-like bungalow which can be constructed in about an hour.

Downey Jr.’s Binishell was in fact made by Bini’s son, Nicolò – although the decision to go Binishell was likely not just an aesthetic one, as they also present an eco-friendly architecture choice (they use 75% less energy to construct than a traditional building).

“If this [house] were a movie with a budget that we’d been charged with producing, we would have been fired 12 times,” Downey Jr. said.

The bungalow features asymmetrical oval-shaped doors and windows designed by New York design firm Fox-Nahem, as well as furniture and other interior decorations from Paola Lenti, Machine Histories, Roche Bobois, Daniel Becker Studio and Calligaris. Most notably, the foyer features a large saltwater aquarium, because: why the fuck not?