outside the box

[Grampa]

[lauramonster]

Pretty cool!!!

Wonder what the maintenance issues will be?? 

guess you'd have to slide it often enough so the animals don't nest in it. 

[Got Duc]

That is wild.

[erkishhorde]

No way you'd get someone doing that in the states.

[He Man]

No way you'd get someone doing that in the states.

+1

Every now and then, but these crazy houses always seem to originate from new zee-land

[erkishhorde]

Well, part of the reason that you don't see a lot of fancy stuff here in the states is geography. West coast gets quakes and a house like that one would be difficult to brace laterally. I'm thinking moment-frame type construction for that and people just plain don't put moment frames in houses.  Pardon my stereotypes but I don't think Central US-types are the kinda peeps that go for the fancy stuff like that. Plus some areas have tornado concerns.

[mitt]

It would suck to stick your hand out a door or window while it was sliding.

It looks pretty sturdy to me.  In the midwest, the biggest concern would be insulation - doesn't look very tight or warm for the 6 months we run our furnace.

We don't really build for tornadoes though (except a basement)- if you are in the wrong place for a strong tornado then even a block construction building won't stay standing.


mitt

[Got Duc]

Wonder if it has a wlanut craker option? 

[sert duc]

Here are some cool pictures of it:







The rest can be found here: http://www.dezeen.com/2009/01/19/sliding-house-by-drmm-2/

[Sleeper_I]

^^^ 
I like the garage 

Just don't hang any picture frame on the outer wall 

[jdubbs32584]

I spy ducs.

[Fresh Pants]

Umm... I like that.

For a second I thought BP visited the sliding house. But then realized #1, house is in the UK. #2 BP probably didn't ride across the US, then the Atlantic to the UK. #3 the 1098 is red.   

[Grampa]

Umm... I like that.

For a second I thought BP visited the sliding house. But then realized #1, house is in the UK. #2 BP probably didn't ride across the US, then the Atlantic to the UK. #3 the 1098 is red.   

elementary my dear fresh pants

[Manny]

No way you'd get someone doing that in the states.

Right. My friends custom built their house and put a car lift into the garage. It's a big open elevator which you drive a car into and then lower it into the basement, leaving the top of the lift as a surface to park another car on. The building inspector almost didn't allow them to activate it because he was afraid of the dangers. He ended up making all sorts of safety switches to make it "safer" like the garage door much be closed, the door from the house to the garage must be closed, and the lift takes about 20 minutes to go down or up. Cool device that was so shackled by regulations that it is almost never used now.

That house is very cool, though. From the description (before I saw the video, obviously) I thought the walls retracted into the ground.