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A conical house, designed with the main entry room the largest, each room farther along the spiral slightly smaller and higher, with a spiral staircase linking them all and wrapped around a central services core.
Right at the very top, in the smallest space, extractor fans to expel hot, rising air
and to draw in fresh air at the lower levels.
The outer structure is a rigid, load-bearing shell, economcally using the minimum building materials necessary.
Comfortable and cosy, with the option of spreading a viscous organic lubricant onto the ground, allowing travel if you decide you'd like to move to some place greener.
Nautilus house
http://dvice.com/ar...fantastic_nauti.php
Not quite the same but still very interesting. [tatterdemalion, Sep 20 2009]
Nautilus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus
The actual creature. Surprisingly large .... [8th of 7, Sep 20 2009]
Trochus shells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochus
[UnaBubba, Sep 20 2009]
The Dymaxion House
http://en.wikipedia...?wasRedirected=true
Very cool, very practical. [DrWorm, Sep 20 2009]
Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.greatbui...genheim_Museum.html
[hippo, Sep 21 2009]
Wiki: Golden Spiral
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Golden_spiral
Sometimes known as the Fibonacci Spiral, it can be used to create more traditional (non curving) floorplans. [zen_tom, Sep 21 2009]
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I'm trying to figure out the house I'd build and retire to, and this design is definitely a good chance. |
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Thanks for the nautilus link, [tatters]... very cool design. |
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I suppose in your country you could actually do this (over here you would be obstructed by a thousand regulations). Nice idea for a house this+ Good luck with it. |
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Plenty of regulation here, too. The main problem would be getting engineering certification. |
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However, the strength of steel mesh and Shotcrete would probably pass all of the loading requirements under the building code. |
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Our building code is one of the toughest in the world, especially if you live in a designated ''cyclone-prone'' area. |
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just make it out of aluminium sheets... the garage is the front (with a little recess between the first and second spiral for the front door). |
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Like Nautilus shell house but in a vertical plane ? On a central axle ? |
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Like giant ammonites, but more in the shape of a trochus shell. [link] |
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Kinda Baked in Star Wars EU novels. |
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If the spiral staircase passes through every room, it's going to
be difficult if you have teenagers (or, indeed, parents). |
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This reminds me of Buckminster (link) Fuller's houses. |
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Building a new house or changing an existing house is comparatively easy here. You just need an architect and permission from the city. The regulations problem kicks in when they realise your new house isn't going to look like the house next door. |
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Like an adobe version of the New York Guggenheim museum, only more so. |
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I quite like the format, you'd have to come up with a clever way to insert windows into that organically-shaped surface - but I'm sure that's doable - architecturally challenging, but doable. |
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I like the venting idea - perhaps if some of the lower chambers were underground (if you're building a new house, you should consider a massive underground component containing sections for wine storage, meat hanging, smoking (as in the preservation method, not the tobacco habit), metal forging, fuel and chemical storage etc etc - but again, architecturally challenging - unless, you just used the golden ratio to generate your floor-plan (see link - Fibonacci Spiral) and stuck to straight-lines, albeit creating rooms with a satisfying distribution of arrangement and size. |
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I thought of mentioning the Golden Ratio but I figured most people here could visualise the diminishing size of each space as you moved up the spiral. |
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I have done a few preliminary drawings for this sort of design. Windows are simple enough if you make them square/rectangular and design their frames deep enough to be able to cut them to fit the outer surface. |
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Overcoming the ''character housing'' bullshit bylaws here is the problem. The local council simply refuses to let you build houses that don't look like slight variations on your uninspired, boring neighbours' houses. Hell, we even had angry deputations of neighbours visiting us when we painted our last house a dark ''elephant grey'' colour. |
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//angry deputations of neighbours// - with pitchforks? |
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It's understandable. If Ubie starts going for fancy colour
schemes, the other inmates will want them too, and the
whole thing will get out of hand. |
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That was pretty much it. One old mongrel, from about 6 doors up, across the street, arrived with two of his neighbours in tow and demanded to know, "Is that the final colour? It looks like a prison block." |
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I pointed out that his wife's "lawn art" collection of garden gnomes and concrete marsupial statues made his twee little house look like a 1905 "House & Garden" advertising campaign. |
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Some unkind words about involving the style nazis from the local council were spoken before they stomped off in lockstep, to contemplate their next sarcastically cutting move over milky tea and stale biscuits. |
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Very clever name to this - I meant to mention before. |
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I certainly hope that the giant ass snail never comes
back to get his shell. |
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// "Is that the final colour? It looks like a prison block."\\ And I thought you didn't have that problem over there, garden gnomes, how dare they. |
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I hate freakin' garden gnomes. I've even taken a few of them fishing with me, to use as trolling anchors. |
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I'm surprised you didn't sneak over under cover of darkness and paint them grey. |
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If you've played Final Fantasy VII (don't mock me!) you might
remember the shell village near the deepest darkest Northern Crater.
That's what I thought of when reading this. |
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I never thought of that, [egbert]. |
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What on Earth is Final Fantasy VII? It sounds like a porn movie. |
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A man in my mom's hometown got so mad when they wouldn't allow him to rezone a church he bought for a storefront that he up and painted the whole thing bright pepto-bismal pink. And now he simply holds garage sales there, every weekend. |
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Computer game on the PS1. |
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You could always start your own Church of Discount Products. |
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