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Home Floating Over the Pacific Brings Peace, Insane Envy [Architecture]

Posted June 30, 2008 9:26 AM

From Gizmodo:

It may not be crazy high-tech architecture, but there's something about this Chilean home hanging over the Pacific that has me glued to the screen with a mixed feeling of complete awe, peace, and The materials, the clean design, the floor plan, the breathtaking views, all of it, make it the perfect place I want to live in. Divided in three floors, Casa 11 Mujeres (House 11 Women, named like that because it was designed for a family with 11 daughters, ages four to twenty) was built with bare concrete with wood floors, glass, and steel on a 45 degree slope looking down Cachagua beach, 87 miles north of Santiago de Chile.

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Re: Home Floating Over the Pacific Brings Peace, Insane Envy [Architecture]

07/01/2008 11:53 AM

Beautiful home and setting. Does Bill Gates own this?

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07/01/2008 11:02 PM

Another let-down, after the headline.

The house does not actually float, but is cantilevered out from the face of that slope.

Evidently the architect does not know that Chile has large earthquakes, with landslides to follow.

Looking at that hillside, the house is going for a one-way ride, when that big temblor strikes.

Refer: http://www.earlham.edu/~bieriir/earthquakes/

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