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Is that room something like like a standard test item that I hadn't heard about?
Hmm;
Overall, they both have their merits.
Also, some books are repeated between the two shelves, heh.
Anyhows, I thought this was interesting:
Not pictured: the holy cheese grater and the holy U-Boot.
I have no idea how it happens, but it's common for churches to be butt-fuckingly ugly. It doesn't even seem to involve ridiculous demands of the parish priest, because I have some serious doubts that any parish priest willing to come forward with his ridiculous demands is going to have a hard-on for brutalism. Perhaps the truth is that there is actually less oversight than in secular construction, and church design is the last area open for third-rate architects to indulge their artsy whims? Who knows.
edit: but after searching for more, it turns out that a) a few of these were built during the commie era, which probably excuses a part of their ugliness, b) churches abroad aren't always better.
.......holy crap trollface is actually a built-in emoticon here
oh dear, you're right
Also some of these are pretty snazzy IMO.
And yes we've got...*ahem* modernist church designs over here too.
Mobile Defense Fortress
Combination Corn Storage Silo/Nuclear War Bunker
Fireman Tower
Battle Dress
When Adventures in CG go Wrong
Post-punk/Industrial Era Rave Building
LEGO Church but when you run out of pieces
2nd Post
ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO THESIS
This one is just kind of an office building with a kite sticking out one end
PARTY PEOPLE LET'S TRY THIS BRAND NEW ANGLE
*cellist concerto intensifies*
Converted Warehouse of Sorrow (possibly a Sanitarium)
Robot girl skirt
Moon Cannon
Artificial Cave Unit
So painfully obviously a steamboat that it's kind of disappointing
3rd Grade shadowbox diorama homework
Giant Maxi-Pencil
Somehow unrelated: 90s Pencil Holder (my grandma had one exactly like this)
Actually I didn't post the Cheese Grater, but since you ask I did some googling and it's this one:
As far as I can say it's front towards the road, so to the average driver it looks like a huge cheese grater looming from between the trees.
Also: tidy.
Anime homes are always tidy because it's easier to draw clean surfaces with fewer details.
Also, unless there's some way to dehumidify that place (I presume the tiny air conditioner console in the back isn't enough) it must be very uncomfortable to be there.
Also for whatever reason I forgot to post about this:
I like that one, though I wonder if it actually makes good use of the space.
Every time this comes up I'm just a little bit floored.
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This is pretty neat.
The guest bed is particularly clever.
I wonder how long the cushions will last if you use them day in day out constantly, but those are probably things that can be easily replaced.
Would be ideal if you could actually sleep on the bed when it's lifted up, but it seems that it's not designed to support weight when it's lifted up.
I really like the versatility of the tables.
The shelves on the walls aren't particularly secure if this is gonna move around, but that's not a huge deal.
Shower literally next to clothes storage seems like a bad idea for moisture, but it might be okay in Alaska. Probably wouldn't fly here in Florida. But then again, this sort of mobile tiny home wouldn't fly here in Florida anyway. Or rather, it might fly, during a hurricane, and that would be a bad thing.
Here's an interesting design for a heating system in very cold weather. @Stormtroper for some reason I have a feeling that this is of interest to you but I'm not sure why.
Also I'm curious about the chemical composition of this "environmentally-friendly antifreeze". A quick search suggests that ethanol and propylene glycol are considered common ingredients in such antifreeze, though I don't know exactly which brand this guy used. But it seems that antifreezes for RVs are the kinds that use these and are thus differentiated from car antifreezes.
Also that's a lotta lamps.
This is an interesting video not so much for the exact design of the house but rather for examining some of the very basics for what one would need to make a shelter.
Obviously, this only works if you're living in a place where you can dig deep enough without hitting the water table -- i.e. not Florida. (This is why we here don't have basements. We could, but it'd be a pain and a half to make sure the water never gets in, plus other issues.) Also, I think these are clay-based soils?
Given an infinite supply of wood, in straight, long segments, you can build any structure of this sort. You can use wood support beams, then even ceilings and walls.
This particular house is poorly lit and poorly ventilated. The latter is a particularly big matter since the apparent inhabitant is cooking inside it using biomass burning, which produces particulate matter that's probably not great for inhabitants' respiratory systems. I might have chosen to put the kitchen in a separate room with more ventilation, or something like that.
Still, though, for the very basics, this illustrates the possibilities.
I wonder how long this would last. Obviously various other plants would try to grow on the roof, so there'd probably need to be some amount of maintenance. Also I wonder what the weight limit would be on that roof.
That said, I noticed is that that girl was able to put that together using just like, one knife, one shovel, and one pot. Not that the use of more tools is bad, but it was just interesting to see the various solutions she used to get by with that little. For example, she made copious use of vines, as her way of tying things together, which I see this guy accomplishes using metal wire.
Vine availability might vary by region, of course. It might be possible to replace vine use with the use of thinner branches, and the use of more complex designs, such as weaving branches together to create a mat. There's also the option of doing woodworking to fit connector pegs/wedges into sockets in other pieces, which I know is characteristic of even very sophisticated Chinese architecture, if you're working with sufficiently thick logs (which she obviously wasn't).