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The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/7/2017 8:18:33 PM

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I have thought long and hard on this, and I think it would be kind of fun.

I have toyed with a home design that is large hexagon with an open court yard in the center of the hex.

It would consist of three floors, with the first floor being built into a hill, with all entrances concealed, the garage doors made to blend into a vertical limestone face and opening inwards so as to leave no trace outside the door.

The main entrance pathway would be concealed by large native juniper and native shrubs (okay cactus) and made to look like a game trail leading to a man made tunnel made to look as close to natural as possible, and at least 70 feet long.

Using shotcrete and structural foam as ways to hide the man made construction.

Strategically placed sensors would activate a digital play back of foot steps on stone behind any visitor, with the occasional red "eyes" peering from hollows in the walls of the tunnel.

The door would be an artificially distressed blast door, complete with the mandatory metal on metal moan. On the floor of the entrance alcove would be a good location to place medical supply purchased human skeletons, with the obligatory scratch marks and dried blood from having scratched so long fingernails were removed by extended scratching at the door. with rotted clothing on them.

The above ground portions of the structure would be done to resemble something of a fusion of star trek Klingon stone construction and possibly the temples of Yabin from star wars.

Oh, the entrance tunnel would be the perfect place for large, articulated robotic realistic looking spiders.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 4:52:37 AM

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Sounds cool. I'd've thought you'd fancy something more baroque than organic looking, though?

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 4:57:21 AM

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Where do you park the cars ?

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 6:53:33 AM

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 9:03:34 AM

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I have had a similar vision, for many years! Not the whole project as you described, but a house with a courtyard in the middle. Each room off the courtyard (which is all of them) has ultra large sliding doors so the walls can disappear. There's an outdoor shower in the courtyard, too, so we can shower privately under the sun. I've contemplated some kind of glass ceiling (which can be completely opened to fresh air) over the courtyard so it can still be used during colder months.

Do it. Do it for the rest of us who never will.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 10:44:19 AM

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You had me with "courtyard" and lost me at "spider"

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 2:31:38 PM

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Think of the spiders as keeping the creeps away so we can use the shower in the courtyard...armed with mini-missiles...

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/8/2017 9:16:07 PM

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I used to summer in a house like that. The bedrooms and living room opened to the courtyard which had a swimming pool in it. One of the bathrooms did too. It was odd when you were in the shower and someone knocked on the courtyard door. You would open it to discover happy hour had started and you were being handed a glass of wine and some Brie. For some reason we ate a lot of Brie back then.

The spiders and the rest sound like you're planning a haunted house attraction for Halloween.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/9/2017 4:47:52 AM

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I used to summer in a house like that. The bedrooms and living room opened to the courtyard which had a swimming pool in it. One of the bathrooms did too. It was odd when you were in the shower and someone knocked on the courtyard door. You would open it to discover happy hour had started and you were being handed a glass of wine and some Brie. For some reason we ate a lot of Brie back then.

The spiders and the rest sound like you're planning a haunted house attraction for Halloween.

Building a house around a central veranda (or atrium, properly) is quite common in some parts of Europe because the Romans used to do that. They're normally open on one side with just three wings, though.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/9/2017 6:46:42 AM

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I used to summer in a house like that. The bedrooms and living room opened to the courtyard which had a swimming pool in it. One of the bathrooms did too. It was odd when you were in the shower and someone knocked on the courtyard door. You would open it to discover happy hour had started and you were being handed a glass of wine and some Brie. For some reason we ate a lot of Brie back then.

The spiders and the rest sound like you're planning a haunted house attraction for Halloween.

Building a house around a central veranda (or atrium, properly) is quite common in some parts of Europe because the Romans used to do that. They're normally open on one side with just three wings, though.

I am going for a Klingon estate meets star wars on tatooine look.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/9/2017 6:16:34 PM

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with the interior being steampunk meets star trek.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/10/2017 5:21:11 AM

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with the interior being steampunk meets star trek.

Isn't that David Lynch's cruddy film of Dune?

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/10/2017 8:13:37 AM

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with the interior being steampunk meets star trek.

Isn't that David Lynch's cruddy film of Dune?

Nope, not quite, that was a case of a good director hiring a shit for brains set designer and special effects person.

And since you brought it up....

First, the flyers were Ornithopters, meaning the damn things had flapping wings (makes me wonder about Herberts sanity when he wrote it.)
Second, Lynch left out the murder of Paul and Chani's first born son by Sardaukar troops.

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RE: The more I think about it, the more I want to build it - 9/10/2017 10:45:42 AM

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with the interior being steampunk meets star trek.

Isn't that David Lynch's cruddy film of Dune?

Nope, not quite, that was a case of a good director hiring a shit for brains set designer and special effects person.

And since you brought it up....

First, the flyers were Ornithopters, meaning the damn things had flapping wings (makes me wonder about Herberts sanity when he wrote it.)
Second, Lynch left out the murder of Paul and Chani's first born son by Sardaukar troops.

Ornithopters were quite a big thing in '50s and '60s SF, for some reason. They're the only flying transport besides giant flamingos in one of the better Michael Moorcock series as well. I think the assumption was that in another five hundred years or so mechanical engineering and power sources will improve to a point where aircraft can stop flying through sheer brute force and start emulating a bird's lift mechanics instead.
I suspect that Dune would have turned out a lot better if Lynch had been less concerned with set design (and whatever else can be said about his shitawful desecration of Dune at least Caladan, Geidi Prime and Arrakis all look radically different in that film, which is a plus) and more on direction (and casting, scripting and the like: the score's pretty good, iirc, so he can have a pass for that).
The film's stuffed with omissions, but you're not the first person I've spoken to who finds that one particularly offensive. (With good reason, if we're honest.)

I was, if I'm honest, just making a cheap crack about how inappropriately steampunky a lot of the hardware in Lynch's worst flick looks, though. Quite impressive for something that came out before there was even much in the way of the cyberpunk that term was coined as an analogy with.

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