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vostok

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A design for a home anchored to a sheer cliff face offers a striking vista. But what would it take to live in such a place, asks Jon Kelly.

For sale: distinctive seaside property with spectacular coastal views. Would suit high-value buyer untroubled by vertigo.

So far it only exists as a concept, but the design for the Cliff House by Modscape, an Australian firm that designs and builds prefabricated homes, is enough to give a lurch to the stomach of anyone uneasy with heights.

Here's the pitch - it features three bedrooms (two doubles, the other en-suite), a stylish living space, a carport, separate bathroom and (tantalisingly or nausea-inducingly, depending on your tolerance of sheer drops) an open-air spa and barbecue area on the bottom floor. Artfully minimalist interior décor focuses visitors' attention on "transcendent views of the ocean".

According to the company's website, the plans were drawn up after a couple approached the firm asking its designers to explore how to build a holiday home along "extreme parcels" of coast in Victoria.

Inspired by the way barnacles cling to a ship's hull, the design envisages that the house would be made up of five modules connected by a lift and secured to the cliff face using engineered steel pins.

It might look precarious - and a hostage to coastal erosion - but there's no reason why the design shouldn't be structurally sound, says Maxwell Hutchinson, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Cantilever beams drilled into the rock could support the building just as crampons support a climber.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29127057
 

heckler73

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It might look precarious - and a hostage to coastal erosion - but there's no reason why the design shouldn't be structurally sound, says Maxwell Hutchinson, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Cantilever beams drilled into the rock could support the building just as crampons support a climber.

Oh, I bet the building is structurally sound. It would have to be designed like an over-sized roll-cage.
It's the rock I'd be concerned about.
Although, in the case of gradual erosion, there would be enough warning to make a decision to get out. I'll house-sit for you Vostok when Putin makes you National Cannabis Commander.
 

ASMALLVOICE

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Damn, that is badass.

I could totally see myself having the upper floors just full of plants and be fishing my ass of from the bottom deck.

Hell, if you fell out, you would starve to death before you hit anything :P

Peace

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Doer

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Oh, I bet the building is structurally sound. It would have to be designed like an over-sized roll-cage.
It's the rock I'd be concerned about.
Although, in the case of gradual erosion, there would be enough warning to make a decision to get out. I'll house-sit for you Vostok when Putin makes you National Cannabis Commander.
The waves would be pounding my underpinning everyday, I will take a pass.
 
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