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A Boeing 747 is recycled and used in residential home Architect David Hertz has designed a home using all the pieces of a Boeing 747 to build it. This project is a 55 acre property in the remote hills of Malibu with several sites and unique topography with panoramic views looking out to a nearby mountain range, a valley, and the ocean with distant island views. The client, a woman, requested curvilinear/feminine shapes for the building. The wing of a 747, at over 2,500 sq. ft., became an ideal configuration to maximize the views and provide a self supporting roof with minimal additional structural support needed. The wing structures are conceived to float on top of simple concrete, shot-crete, and rammed-earth walls that are cut into the hillsides. The floating roofs will derive simple support from steel brace frames, which will attach to strategic mounting points on the wing where the engines were previously mounted. Frameless, structural self-supporting glass will create the enclosure from the concrete slab on grade into the wing as roof. In addition to the main residence an art studio and meditation room will be made from a section of the fuselage, a guest house will incorporate the first class mezzanine cabin and lounge, and a barn and other structures will use other parts of the plane. As a structure and engineering achievement, the aircraft encloses a lot of space using the least amount of materials in a very resource efficient manner. The recycling of the 4.5 million parts of this “big aluminum can” is seen as an extreme example of sustainable reuse and appropriation. American consumers and industry throw away enough aluminum in a year to rebuild our entire airplane commercial fleet every three months. Com as crescentes preocupações ambientais projectos deste âmbito devem ser incentivados, não concordam?

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em teoria tem tudo para ser bom, mas acho este projecto bastante fraco... Apenas pegou nas quase asas do avião e fez umas coberturas de espaços todos envidraçados. Não vejo o que será sustentável aqui, a não ser as boas intenções iniciais.

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Também fico com essa ideia de que apenas as asas foram aproveitadas como forma de cobertura de uma estrutura envidraçada.

Não é incrível tudo o que pode caber dentro de um lápis?...

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os LOT-EK já fizeram a mesma exploração e em maior escala utilizando dezenas de aviões num projecto para uma livraria se não estou enganado.... fica aqui o link para darem uma vista de olhos. http://www.lot-ek.com/

quanto ao projecto sou da mesma opinião que o assimplemind... no ultimo trabalho que realizei para a cadeira de projecto reutilizei carcaças de aviões, vagões, contentores e silos de armazenamento.... nunca afirmei que o meu projecto era sustentável. parece-me é que numa época em que a preocupação com a reutilização, a redução e a reciclagem são o mote de vários debates é essencial que a arquitectura absorva este espirito. podendo até formar uma nova corrente arquitectónica. isto digo eu, mero aspirante a arquitecto... ;)

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