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There are hundreds of airplanes that have been mothballed in the deserts of California and are sold at the price of their principal raw material, aluminum. This 747 home represents the single largest industrial achievement in modern history and its abandonment in the deserts.
Not only is the final result breathtaking, it's an environmentally friendly home, too.
A 747 Boeing Home
The Concept: To acquire an entire Boeing 747 airplane and reuse and reappropriate as many of the pieces of the aircraft. Use of the components such as roof shells minimizes construction, structure, and impacts to the site, while maximizing space and volume.
Shown here: Wing section stored at airport awaiting airlift transport to site
The wings of a 747, at over 5,500 square feet, possess an ideal configuration to maximize the views and provide a self-supporting roof with minimal structural supports needed.
Shown here: Wing section stored at airport awaiting airlift transport to site
This section, called the fuselage, will become the Art Studio roof structure
So how did these enormous pieces get from Point A to Point B? The pieces were driven to an Airport for a final airlift to the contruction site.
Shown here: Wing section on its way by truck to Airport for airlift to site
What a view these drivers must have gotten with a massive wing driving past them!
Shown here: (Nighttime) Wing section on its way by truck to Airport for airlift to site
Finally, the pieces are airlifted to the construction site.
Shown here: Chinook Helicopter airlifting wing section to site
Carefully, members of the construction crew guided a piece from the aircraft down onto land.
Shown here: Chinook Helicopter lowering wing section to site
Home owner Francie Rehwald is exuberant after the successful airlift transports were completed!
This site sits on a 55 acre property in the remote Santa Monica Montains.
Shown here: Font elevation of finished design rendering
Due to the lot's long and narrow dimensions, the design intent is to create a series of angled walls and reveals in the side elevations in order to provide for view corridors down the side yards to the ocean. The space between the tapered walls allows for the modulation of the natural prevailing breezes through the house.
Shown here: Interior rendering looking from living room through kitchen to the ocean
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