Cool places to live

that one in korea is amazing

http://freshome.com/2008/12/09/shell-house-in-the-japanese-forsts/

also that place chassis posted.

starting to look like dwell magazine up in here.

I'd pretty much like a modest house that was totally balls out on the inside and neighbors that were very friendly but very far away.

converted missile silo

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/10/missile-base-2/all/1

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But not everything is out of order: In the background sit the two giant overhead silo doors. They cover the 185-foot hole in the ground where a missile armed with a nuclear warhead used to be. Townsley has managed to get one of these massive doors up and running. It took a bunch of local volunteers and a rented crane, but he finally cracked it open.

 

“I took out a loan against my truck to have a bracket built to be able to open the door,” said Townsley.

myself, i've always wanted a former telecoms bunker, the ones shock mounted, with independent systems designed to withstand a nuclear attack and keep systems running. once tech got good, computers shrunk, now lots of old bunkers on the market....

  On 5/18/2011 at 6:20 AM, hahathhat said:

converted missile silo

 

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/10/missile-base-2/all/1

 

 

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But not everything is out of order: In the background sit the two giant overhead silo doors. They cover the 185-foot hole in the ground where a missile armed with a nuclear warhead used to be. Townsley has managed to get one of these massive doors up and running. It took a bunch of local volunteers and a rented crane, but he finally cracked it open.

 

“I took out a loan against my truck to have a bracket built to be able to open the door,” said Townsley.

 

myself, i've always wanted a former telecoms bunker, the ones shock mounted, with independent systems designed to withstand a nuclear attack and keep systems running. once tech got good, computers shrunk, now lots of old bunkers on the market....

people get rickets when they live underground

i started designing my own house on monday actually. maybe i'll post the plans when/if i get it finished. it's a fairly modest, 3 bedroom house and hopefully achievable one day. the problem is too many ideas.

  On 5/17/2011 at 3:19 PM, o00o said:

 

 

 

Very cool right there.

I'd like an oak framed house somewhere by some water thats not the sea and in hills with forests. I've already chosen my architect!

http://www.roderickjamesarchitects.co.uk/projects.html

http://www.arquitecturaorganica.com/inicio_i.html

  On 5/18/2011 at 2:28 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

 

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http://www.arquitecturaorganica.com/inicio_i.html

Are you a f**king hobbit ?

Now this would imho be a nice place to live in. Quiet. Very quiet.

  On 5/20/2011 at 10:55 AM, Dropp said:

that wall would make me feel uncomfortable. why not take a normal one instead:

In that first one, i like the plantings in the garden, and how they cut medieval styled windows into those giant concrete cylinders. To add a flourish of old castle, to the thing.

But yeah, could have chopped ths space up a little and made more rooms, and cupboard space (heh)

  On 5/20/2011 at 10:55 AM, Dropp said:

The earth works would have cost more than that house was worth.

  On 5/20/2011 at 2:57 PM, delet... said:

In that first one, i like the plantings in the garden, and how they cut medieval styled windows into those giant concrete cylinders. To add a flourish of old castle, to the thing.

 

But yeah, could have chopped ths space up a little and made more rooms, and cupboard space (heh)

 

  On 5/20/2011 at 10:55 AM, Dropp said:

 

The earth works would have cost more than that house was worth.

O rly?

I'm gunning for a nice Georgian townhouse in London. Something like this one:

I should be getting a 2-bed flat in one of these later this year.

  On 5/18/2011 at 4:59 AM, data said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also that place chassis posted.

holy fucking shit. i need this house

I like that storm shelter house.

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i personally wouldn't want to live in the below, but it matches the thread description in being a place to live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7utI74c1M&feature=player_embedded#at=27

Not built yet, but set to go up.

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The design was commissioned by English footballer, Gary Neville, who has been "heavily involved in the design process from the outset and is passionate about preserving the natural beauty of this area."

 

The single-level, four bedroom property is embedded into a hillside and ringed by a series of teardrop shaped outdoor areas which give the building its floral flavor when viewed from above. This approach enables the dwelling to blend into the surrounding meadows, minimizing the impact on the natural landscape and surrounding views. linkEE

That's awesome. I've always wanted to live in a spot that's built into a hill.

  On 5/17/2011 at 9:46 PM, uptown devil said:

man that says fairbanks transit system on it. I know or know of so many people who live in buses around here it is ridiculous

I would like to live in a house boat in a bayou.

  On 6/12/2011 at 11:16 PM, Braintree said:

That's awesome. I've always wanted to live in a spot that's built into a hill.

  On 5/17/2011 at 3:19 PM, o00o said:

That's fucking awesome.

Many hold with in us the idea of what it would look like if the modern age were riven by some calamity. Not to say that we harbour post apocalyptic fantasies as a positive ideal. Just that the vision of the modern world aged under the commanding hand of nature, holds our gaze with it's wild and uncertain beauty.

We have seen architecture of prior ages fall to similar fates. But it is still starkly confronting when it's an industrial landscape, rather than some vine entangled Roman villa, or Mayan city sunken beneath the deepening forest.