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Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

olivius — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:35:11 EDT

i will like to say....tis house got too many windows....
somehow it look unfriendly at that surrounding

olivius

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

iomatic — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:26:44 EDT

@Ubik2501: Very nice reference.

wagers on World of Starcraft as the next big MMOG?

iomatic

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:14:46 EDT

Man, I love that house. It looks like a supervillain's lair.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

DJTripleRRR — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:34 EDT

Awesome! I'd live there!

DJTripleRRR

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Rbastid — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:02:03 EDT

I Like the camo-Crab look, but pft the whole eco thing is worthless.

Give me a big, energy sucking LCD covered Crab house.

Rbastid

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

gadgetfreak — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:48:47 EDT

If I had that kind of money, I suppose I might pay that much to make sure it was NEVER BUILT.

gadgetfreak

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Gann — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:33:40 EDT

@Oldbrass: trees of course. curved lines = same effeciency with different shape as straight lines. They're not cutting the shapes out of a rectilinear piece of wood, they're molding long, thin, rectilinear pieces of wood into curves. Like plywood, this minimizes inconsistancies in the member and requires less material to hold the same load. It could possibly be more efficient than custom framing it out of nominal lumber.
Here is a good example of curved glulam beams.
Laminated veneer members work the same, only the 'plys' are thinner, allowing a tighter curvature and higher strength.

Gann

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Argyle — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:33:48 EDT

good lord it's ugly and it looks rather small...

Argyle

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Oldbrass — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:11:46 EDT

@Gann: Yah... And the custom made laminate shapes are going to be cut out of what, exactly? Straight lines = more efficient use of timber.

Oldbrass

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Ariel_Wollinger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:35:58 EDT

this is obviously CGI.

Ariel_Wollinger

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Ubik2501 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:30:18 EDT

I don't think I'd pay $15M to live inside a Protoss spaceship.

Ubik2501

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Gann — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:21 EDT

Just checked the designer's website, the structure is made of a bunch of custom laminated veneer lumber beams which will definitely be built off site, assembled onsite then shingled.

Gann

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Gann — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:30 EDT

@Oldbrass: Judging by the price listed and the unique shape of the house, I bet most of this will be built in a factory and have very limited waste.

Gann

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

broho — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:02:00 EDT

what a moron. that's the fugliest 'house' i've ever seen.

broho

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

GiltProto — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:09 EDT

That's a very expensive hunting duck blind.

GiltProto

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

WD40 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:55:19 EDT

@hmooby: or give the money to the treehugger foundation...it'll shut them up for a while. Oh wait, they can't accept it because money comes from trees...

WD40

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

hmooby — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:35:35 EDT

just give that 15 mil to charity...wtf!

hmooby

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

strider_mt2k — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:05:42 EDT

Drape a couple of vines over that thing, give it swamp-lowering ability and I think we've found our Hall of Doom!

Now if only we had a way to foil those pesky SuperFriends...

strider_mt2k

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Agata — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:09:17 EDT

awesome! green life style becomes fashionable....

Agata

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

martini1179 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:55:53 EDT

Why do I think this "anonymous treehugger" is someone from Radiohead?

martini1179

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

BostonK — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:26:04 EDT

Is the top picture the "Master Chief" version?

BostonK

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

malvones — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:57:43 EDT

@Oldbrass: you mean, something like this ?

malvones

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

iomatic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:48:09 EDT

Meh, I'd buy this over a small-dick Veyron.

iomatic

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

djdare — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:46:25 EDT

@seanmac: uhh I'm no expert, but you can buy 15 acres in my neck of the woods for $50,000 or so, which means you could build a house... a normal house, and put solar panels on a good portion of the rest, and for a $1.5 million initial investment, I would assume you could recoup the costs in like 5 years... assuming you get paid by the electric company for energy put back into the grid... just saying.

djdare

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

photophile — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:06:28 EDT

I think some dumb rich dude got ripped off...

photophile

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:12:18 EDT

If its a business expense + good publicity for someone in the entertainment industry then of course!

They will indubitably brag about this while flying around in their own private Jet powered by fossil fuel.

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

seanmac — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:51:23 EDT

$15,000,000 / 1000 years = $15,000/year of energy.

At first it seemed like a short time, but it's not a bad of the cuff estimate for a big house. Well done Sean.

I bet it would be possible to make a $1.5 million home in the right area that would pay for itself in a much shorter period of time, perhaps a couple lifetimes. As the technology continues to improve, it might even approach a good economic decision. Think of the possibilities...

seanmac

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

sfokevin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:24:02 EDT

$15 million dollars donated to World Land Trust will save 150,000 acres of land for perpetuity...

[www.worldlandtrust.org]

sfokevin

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Oldbrass — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:15:06 EDT

Dumb dumb dumb. I do work in the construction trade from time to time and when I look at this design all I can picture is the 8 dumpsters of lumber cut offs, specialty made, one off concrete forms and about a 400 kilos of special use piping cut offs.

You want a real "green" house? Build it half under grade and out of sod. Minimal eco foot print and piece of cake to heat.

Oldbrass

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Final — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:57:21 EDT

well if they have 15 mill to blow on a house I'm sure they can afford the malaria and or west nile treatment that living on that dirty pond will eventually lead to.

Final

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

Step666 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:55:12 EDT

@oyumurtaci: 'Paper was used to get this 'green' house. I bet it was 'green' paper.'

Not in the UK - we have real money here.

Step666

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

92BuickLeSabre — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:49:34 EDT

@djdare: Dude, there's nothing wrong with actually trying to be green; it's not inherently uncool to be environmentally friendly/conscious.

No need to abandon trying to do right by the world just because one also enjoys exposing hypocrisy, lunacy, and idiocy where it exists.

92BuickLeSabre

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

djdare — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:31 EDT

@male roof blower (CFB): and word, I'm not saying I'm "green" or buy into any of this stuff... as my record in previous posts makes very clear, I just think it's funny when people pretend.

djdare

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

djdare — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:37:22 EDT

@oyumurtaci: and you sir need to stop dabbling in the other green stuff easily rolled in paper.

[www.pot-party.com]

djdare

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

oyumurtaci — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:29:17 EDT

Nothing says 'treehugger' like blowing 15 mil, or probably approximately 30 trees worth of paper on a house. A 'green' house. That sounds oddly familiar, the phrase 'green house'... now I wonder what other 'green house' exists that 15 million could have been better spent on? AHA! The White House. No wait that's not green. It's white. Like paper. Paper was used to get this 'green' house. I bet it was 'green' paper.

oyumurtaci

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

ceilingFANBOY — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:40 EDT

@djdare: That's an issue with people. They only think of energy use and recycling when thinking of "green." They don't consider the fact that the building is planted right in the middle of a marsh or the fact that the dark portions of the roof are going to emit heat, or that the concrete in the pond is going to warm the water around the house.

ceilingFANBOY

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

takashimiike 3G edition — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:30 EDT

I've seen better looking homes in New Orleans.

takashimiike 3G edition

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

tidybowl — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:23:12 EDT

I thought the top one looked like a camouflaged frog about to take a dump.

Just goes to show you - just because you've got lots of money - doesn't mean you're smart.

I'm betting for $15 mil - I could design a much sweeter house than that - and it'd be "green".

tidybowl

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

mikeness — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:20:20 EDT

Haha, you spled wethly rong

mikeness

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

djdare — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:43 EDT

the top one looks like it has shark tails... I thought building on a body of water disrupted the ecosystem.

djdare

Weathly, Anonymous Treehugger Buys Eco-House For $15 Million

bookmark — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:06:34 EDT

... odd

bookmark