Living inside a steel sculpture

blissed · 09-04-09 19:24:56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azy-Xxfn … r_embedded

nihpuad · 09-04-09 20:06:41

Blissed:

I saw a story about that place on some show (Extreme Living or some such) on the HGTV cable channel. The place looks incredibly cool.

blissed · 09-04-09 21:25:08

I love houses on legs, it means a large house can have a tiny footprint and I'd love to see more of this freestyle architecture and there's no shortage of scrap steel. I think you could build one using this robot.

http://www.robots.com/fanuc.php?robot=arcmate+100ib

Then you'd need another robot to assemble the parts into a house. This project took him 28 years, building one cost effectively could be 5 years away.

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aven frey · 10-04-09 05:30:12

I love the colour of that steel.

nihpuad · 10-04-09 07:24:03

bobby wrote:

I love the colour of that steel.

IIRC that's a particular sort of architectural steel. The color is actually rust... but the surface of the steel rusts evenly, and the iron oxide forms a protective coating that's not unlike paint in protecting the metal underneath.

In Houston, where I grew up, there was an amphitheater with an open-sided cover over the stage and some of the seating built from that same steel, and I remember that beautiful brick-red color very well.

blissed · 11-04-09 14:24:02

Actually just thinking, if it gets the hard sun on it, it might get a little bit hot in there :) and the walls would conduct the heat straight out in the cold weather and you'd freeze, would you get any kind of mobile phone signal. You'd need insulation to retain heat in the cold weather then passive ventilation and embedded systems to turn the suns heat into power for the summer.

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nihpuad · 11-04-09 17:45:55

blissed wrote:

Actually just thinking, if it gets the hard sun on it, it might get a little bit hot in there

There was something in the story I saw about thermal management... but I forget now just how the designer was handling it.

ngaio · 14-04-09 07:34:04

Oh holy damn! That is just amazing. Wow. Thanks for sharing. I love architecture that is a sculptural work of art and that works so well in that landscape.

I recently read an article in a magazine (can't remember the magazine, I'm afraid) about all sorts of adult, house sized treehouses that people own and live in. Oh to have the resources to create oneself a fantasy home!

blissed · 25-05-09 22:50:54

blissed wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azy-Xxfn … r_embedded

If you want the caravan version here it is :)

http://www.popgive.com/2009/05/inhalt-c … -your.html

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ngaio · 28-05-09 01:45:23

So...white...inside... and sparkly... it freaks me out a bit!

blissed · 28-05-09 03:56:00

I reckon the caravans a bit claustrophobic.

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