Comments on: PREFAB FRIDAY: Single Hauz Elevated Domain

By: Jac

Jac — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:37:10 +0000

it’s a great idea but i can’t see how feasible it really is. Maybe they should build one and live in it for a while, sorta test-drive it. Dun banners have holes in them to accomodate huge winds and storms?! And a banner compared with 2 people is definitely way lighter. Until it’s built and tested, it’s just looks pretty on photoshop at the moment.

By: Leo Mac Ender

Leo Mac Ender — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:36:36 +0000

Keep going on, don´t let anyone “snort” at your brilliant architecture, ok.
Diploma for you…
Leo Mac Ender
Senior Architect

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:45:52 +0000

wow – absolutely love this. the area beneath could be a shade garden, lush ferns etc, nice place to linger.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:50:40 +0000

The first thing I thought of (apart from ‘ooooo funky’) was ‘Where does the water/sewage/ectricity come and go?’. I’m guessing they would have a lot of pipes and such in the main column that holds them up.

By: Francisco Saraiva

Francisco Saraiva — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:31:37 +0000

Apesar do apelo da imagem, acho que ninguem me convencia a viver num rectangulo de 2×10metros. onde punha o meu estirador? ecologicamente não vejo nenhuma mais valia.
Very good looking, but i could never be convinced to live in a 2×10 metres space, where do i put my drawing table?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:24:29 +0000

Cool looking, but I don’t think I’d want to be in one during an earthquake :-).

By: joe

joe — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:04:58 +0000

Why aren’t there any pics of the interior?

By: David Ewing

David Ewing — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:24:45 +0000

Are they stackable?

By: John Wade

John Wade — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:31:31 +0000

You need some pulley system to bring up your groceries though. And not exactly senior or disability friendly by the looks, Otherwise, interesting.

By: Christopher P.

Christopher P. — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:34:17 +0000

Interesting concept for flood prone areas, second unit development on limited lot sizes, where local codes require additional parking per unit (e.g., most cities in Greater Los Angeles). Not practical for any but young singles and couples, and the more athletic older singletons. And yet another venue for Inhabitat’s favorite, shipping container repurposing! Just park an unadorned shipping container underneath for one’s “stuff” (always have to have a places for one’s “stuff”!)

As for windloads, brachiated trees evolved into forests and groves, to hold each other up and act as wind screens and moisture catchment areas, with minimal sun blocking. Could work here….

By: Anson

Anson — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:16:08 +0000

It comes down to this; the design is creative and fairly original. it allows the structure to be put in many many places that an ordinary foundation could not achieve and does it in a rather inexpensive way. wind could pose a bit of a problem but there are many billboards with a larger face that survive the wind so with attentive positioning (thin side toward the prevailing wind) and a solid foundation it should make a facinating stand alone tree house!

By: Katie Bond

Katie Bond — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:33:45 +0000

I have been looking for an affordable pre-fab design for a vacation/retirement home along the Siletz River here in Oregon. I will be interested in more details (in English, of course).

By: djfred

djfred — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:28:13 +0000

Jill, because it’s been floating around on design blogs that readers of Inhabitat most likely also frequent.

I really like this one. Nice clean design and utilizing existing components as opposed to asking the manufacturer to fabricate custom pieces and then trying to figure out why the low-cost pre-fab isn’t low-cost. I wonder about the floor plan. It seems like there’s a lot of wasted space on the upper story but t would make a great office or even work/occasional live with a little more floorspace.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:44:10 +0000

I don’t know why everything thinks we have covered this before on Inhabitat, but I can assure you that we have not.

Thanks!
Jill

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:30:56 +0000

This design is great… but what about high winds, or intense articulating winds (0-150mph in 1 second, hurricane style). I’ve always wondered about lifting up dwelling structures on the tubular posts that support Advertising Billboards. It seems like a new use of ‘off the shelf’ , already existing, industrial technology.

My vote is to triangulate. 3 equilaterally spaced posts and a wider structure. (Maybe the structure could be more aerodynamic as well ?) Obviously… this would be a different project(Single Hauz 2, Multi-Hauz 1 ?) BUT… imagine creating a pre-fab ‘building system that utilized this telescoping billboard sign post idea ? High up, or close to the ground… it could be something ? Of course… high tension cables could anchor the ‘Single Hauz’ to the ground… but they would ruin the look, just like they ruin the look of so many single pole wind generators. Wasn’t the ‘Single Hauz’ previously featured in ‘inahabitat’ a while ago ? Too bad the architects site is in Polish !
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