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Post by Avinalaff on Sept 11, 2014 13:39:20 GMT
Perhaps juddablue should reconsider his house build? A design for a home anchored to a sheer cliff face offers a striking vista. But what would it take to live in such a place, asks Jon Kelly. For sale: distinctive seaside property with spectacular coastal views. Would suit high-value buyer untroubled by vertigo. So far it only exists as a concept, but the design for the Cliff House by Modscape, an Australian firm that designs and builds prefabricated homes, is enough to give a lurch to the stomach of anyone uneasy with heights. Here's the pitch - it features three bedrooms (two doubles, the other en-suite), a stylish living space, a carport, separate bathroom and (tantalisingly or nausea-inducingly, depending on your tolerance of sheer drops) an open-air spa and barbecue area on the bottom floor. Artfully minimalist interior décor focuses visitors' attention on "transcendent views of the ocean". According to the company's website, the plans were drawn up after a couple approached the firm asking its designers to explore how to build a holiday home along "extreme parcels" of coast in Victoria. Cliff House Inspired by the way barnacles cling to a ship's hull, the design envisages that the house would be made up of five modules connected by a lift and secured to the cliff face using engineered steel pins. It might look precarious - and a hostage to coastal erosion - but there's no reason why the design shouldn't be structurally sound, says Maxwell Hutchinson, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Cantilever beams drilled into the rock could support the building just as crampons support a climber. While people assume homes must be built upwards from foundations in the ground, it's equally possibly in theory for them to be suspended or hung, says Hutchinson. There's a tradition of unconventional properties around the world including floating homes, underwater homes and even ice hotels. But, he warns, "all of these things are expensive because the construction industry hates anything unusual". Any prospective owner of the Cliff House would need very deep pockets. And that wouldn't be the only thing required of them, Hutchinson says. "It would have to be someone with a very, very strong stomach."
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Post by juddablue on Sept 11, 2014 15:53:49 GMT
F***k that they would hard pushed to pull that off (excuse the pun) would cost a absolute mint an all
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Post by Avinalaff on Sept 11, 2014 16:24:19 GMT
F***k that they would hard pushed to pull that off (excuse the pun) would cost a absolute mint an all You have mints on the brain lol. From the Air to the Ground: An Airplane House
Bruce Campbell is an electrical engineer who has a dream of creating an entire subdivision of retired airplanes, and he is starting with his own airplane house first. Purchased for $100,000 and sitting on a portion of his ten-acre lot in Portland, Oregon, Campbell lives and works in this retired Boeing 727. Campbell's apartment inside the plane is 40 m (130 ft.) long and 4 m (13 ft.) wide. And another:Little Trump, Benoit, MS, USA
Moving on from boats to planes, this Boeing 727’s name is a reference to Donald Trump’s $16 million corporate jet, also a 727. When hairstylist Joan Ussery’s previous home was heavily damaged in an ice storm, her brother-in-law, an air traffic controller, suggested she look at the recently retired aircraft. It was love at first sight, so she plunked down $2,000 for it. She paid an additional $4,000 to have the 727 airliner moved and then did 90% of the remodeling work herself. The plane is 12 feet wide and 127 feet long and has 99 windows. The now three bedroom 1-½ bath home also has a large storage area in the cargo hold beneath the living area. Perhaps Ussery’s favorite feature is the whirlpool bath, providing gorgeous views of the lake from the cockpit windows.
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Post by jimmy on Sept 11, 2014 17:01:46 GMT
You'd need to be plane crazy to live there. She looks like Pat from East Enders.
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Post by Avinalaff on Sept 11, 2014 20:05:25 GMT
You'd need to be plane crazy to live there. She looks like Pat from East Enders. Ha ha she does a bit when you think about it.
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