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Offline BurningTantalum

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2020, 05:25:47 am »
'Why?' is the question that needs answering.
I'm just glad that they don't live near me - we have enough eyesores with the hippy-dippies across the valley, and the lackadaisical and non-consistent application of planning regs by the local Shire.
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2020, 05:47:24 am »
I wonder how they got that through the planning authority. I expected it to be on some rural property, but it's surrounded by houses in a residential area. Quite a feat when in some areas you can't even paint your fence. I'm half thinking the house is a giant troll. From the satellite view it looks like a giant outcropping of breasts.
 

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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2020, 06:34:56 am »
Is it small copy version of 'Pierre Cardin’s Bubble House'?
 

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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2020, 06:38:48 am »
That's actually kind of cool actually.

 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2020, 08:57:17 am »
It’s a pretty good size, and the interior seems quite nice (big library!)
Nicer than “the flintstone house” near me.  https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2019/04/05/290247.htm


I don’t want to see the estimate for exterior painting, though!

 

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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2020, 10:07:54 am »
Oof, those colours.  :o
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2020, 11:21:43 pm »
Hi,

I actually live near-ish to the Bubble House.. Didn't even know it existed  :o

We found another "interesting", and newer house when we were searching for our current home. This one is much closer to me.

https://www.realestate.com.au/property/79-sheep-camp-rd-mount-crosby-qld-4306

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2020, 12:21:30 am »
The crazy house in dalat Vietnam has to be  one of my favorite pieces of architecture
 
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2020, 03:35:58 pm »
Ggrrr....  Many years ago, (in Adelaide, Australia), I went through 6 months of waiting for the damned local Council
to approve my very standard shed I wanted to erect.   FINALLY, after not tolerating any more 'pissed-off-ness', I went
in in person, and demanded  to see the boss!  He came out, and looked at my detailed plans. (Not his plans/copy of course!).
In a matter of literally 5 mins, he said it all looks above board, considering the whole design & encumbrances and STAMPED
it as approved. Geeeze I hate council bureaucracy!!!    :palm:
Diagonal of 1x1 square = Root-2. Ok.
Diagonal of 1x1x1 cube = Root-3 !!!  Beautiful !!
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2020, 03:41:39 pm »
That's actually kind of cool actually.
Na, the furniture for it would need to be invented as well...
But if you want more floor space, just raise it up by a few inches.

I admit, its got something of a subnautica base.
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2020, 03:49:29 pm »
I'm guessing there were drugs involved during the planning stages.
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
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« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2020, 09:51:02 pm »
Giving it a bit more thought, it's super impressive. Given the age of the house, I wonder if it was designed on a computer or by hand drawings. Trying to model the structural elements to ensure it meets all engineering requirements would have taken a very creative and talented engineer.

Once you start moving away from flat planes and prisms, protecting against water ingress becomes a big challenge too. Also, regular houses have different structures that are able to move and expand, ie the brick veneer has a measure of independence from the timer frame, the roof is able to flex too. I can see some cracks in the rendering around windows, but I'm surprised the whole structure isn't filled with cracks. It would be interesting to know how it was made, and what the dome structures are made of. Maybe cement and fibre meshing?
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2020, 10:31:12 pm »
I found this short write up about the construction of the Bubble House.

https://www.ipswichfirst.com.au/bubble-house/

Ash.
 
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2020, 11:12:47 pm »
If they cut some sections and turn them around they can have a mini Sydney Opera House.
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2020, 03:25:13 am »
The new Microsoft Flight Simulator has replaced most of Australian style architecture house with cheapo American style houses :-- . I flew over Wangaratta where I used to live and the houses looked like they were straight out of Gomer Pyle USMC. Not only that, it placed the roof on the my old 12 square brick garage at 90 degrees :wtf:. It was almost as insulting as when the Max Max movie was dubbed with American accents.

MS Flight Simulator uses AI (Architectural Idioticy) :-DD Maybe it will improve over time. Even so, the flying software is pretty impressive. Gee, that Bill Gates is brainy.
 
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2020, 09:16:36 pm »
I guess they saved on roof shingles  :D
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2020, 06:29:19 am »
80 years ago Wallace Neff designed a house shaped like a balloon. There were thousands of his "bubble houses" built, it was a bit of a trend. They were made by spraying concrete onto an inflated rubber sac. Today only one remains in the US, formerly the architect's own dwelling:
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2011/12/wallace-neff-shell-house.html

Most people who have spent time in Silicon Valley have seen the Flintstone House:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstone_House
 

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« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2020, 01:03:37 pm »
Does the windows have iris blinds? If so I'm sold.
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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2020, 01:22:58 pm »
That's what it looks like, that's genius. 
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2020, 11:01:23 pm »
the bubble house looks the the 'Bini' shells constructed in some Schools in NSW, Australia.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/26/binishells-nsw-schools-fine-example-academic-architecture-hailed-revolutionary-time/

My school had one that had two basket ball courts inside or it could seat close to 1000 people.
Eventually they pulled it down as it was deemed unsafe, but I think some still stand today.
I liked it and I think most other people did too.
 

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Re: Architecture in Australia...
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2020, 11:33:20 pm »
There was also this https://www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/feeds/sunday-stories-space-city/, fell into disuse, vandalism, squatters then demolished. Usual story.

As far as the house is concerned, furnishing would be expensive, everything would have to be custom made curvy stuff.
Not easy, not hard, just need to be incentivised.
 


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