There is great Rockhouse interest in building underground and for a multitude of reasons but the aesthetics have been relatively low on the scale relative to functionality. In these housing examples, the approach has been the other way around and some of them are startlingly cool. You'll need to forgive the author for trying to be a poet with the title since there's more to the article than that. (CNN: Terra Mater Trilogy: Three buildings exploring the unseen world)
We're not exploring any 'unseen world' but rather blowing a bloody great hole in it to discover whether we can build suitable accommodations there. It turns out that, in incredibly radical style, we can.
Casa Brutale
- Pic from Google, unknown photographer
Living with a swimming pool above me is kind of creepy but it does make for some exceptional wall decorations.
The Plinth
A larger-scale semi-subterranean lair and this one is intended for Afghanistan.
Here's another view on entering it:
So I told my design team, 'If Kim Kardashian can break the internet with a picture of her butt, we can do it with some interesting architecture, too.' Since then, we've had a lot of new projects and clients and it's going well.
We're not exploring any 'unseen world' but rather blowing a bloody great hole in it to discover whether we can build suitable accommodations there. It turns out that, in incredibly radical style, we can.
Casa Brutale
- Pic from Google, unknown photographer
Living with a swimming pool above me is kind of creepy but it does make for some exceptional wall decorations.
The Plinth
A larger-scale semi-subterranean lair and this one is intended for Afghanistan.
Here's another view on entering it:
So I told my design team, 'If Kim Kardashian can break the internet with a picture of her butt, we can do it with some interesting architecture, too.' Since then, we've had a lot of new projects and clients and it's going well.
- CNN
Note: there was one more example in the CNN article and it featured an underground facility shaped like a cross and it opened out to the water. It wasn't omitted for any religious reason but rather I thought it was a colossal waste of space simply to make a visual effect from the light of the cross over the lake or sea. Read the linked article if you like as that will reveal more about it and your estimation may be different. (CNN: Terra Mater Trilogy: Three buildings exploring the unseen world)
Note: there was one more example in the CNN article and it featured an underground facility shaped like a cross and it opened out to the water. It wasn't omitted for any religious reason but rather I thought it was a colossal waste of space simply to make a visual effect from the light of the cross over the lake or sea. Read the linked article if you like as that will reveal more about it and your estimation may be different. (CNN: Terra Mater Trilogy: Three buildings exploring the unseen world)
6 comments:
Ideas are cool but lets hear about the costs and production times.
My take on these ones is they're for the same audience that buys the mega yachts. I doubt whether there's any hope of economy in underground construction unless it's on a much larger scale.
These are pipedream structures.
I didn't follow it through but I think the Casa Brutale did get built. I agree the underground church was crazy since it would be a huge expense but wouldn't even hold much of a congregation. It doesn't make any sense.
I'll stick to my focus on functionality since I don't believe any of those structures really offer that much.
It was comissioned but not actually built yet.
When it has to be commissioned, it tells me it must have cost a ton
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