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Architects using old Boeing 727s and 737s fuselages in new building
inhabitat.com — New York ’s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, have recently designed a library in Guadalajara made entirely of refurbished airplane fuselages.
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- otismedina, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Frickin' sweet!
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -34/+5Dupe http://digg.com/design/New_Jalisco_Library
- protiek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Seriously shut up, nobody cares about dupes
- Karkian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, it wouldn't get dugg if EVERYONE had already seen it and the site doesn't exist purely to service you.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Again yet another dupe whore
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Again the convo goes awry. pronounced "awreeeee"
Dupe this ya bastards!
Frickin' sweet!
good point otismedina10hoursago
I agree - alf86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Osipr:
Yours also was a dupe. See link several posts down. At least do you homework before being a dupe nazi. - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Interesting concept....but kind of weird. I dont know, but I wouldnt want to see a pile of 737 carcasses stacked up across the street from me. If they really want to recycle them, then just use the materials, not the whole fuselage. The planes they used would probably be better off refurbished and sold off to private consumers as BBJs (Boeing Business Jets).
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hahaha, i was nuked for pointing out a dupe, but postmxtr further down wasn't. Consistency ppl
- handeyman, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5I didnt know you could do that
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http://HostFilez.com - Aztlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7that's cool and here is a link to a house designed with the same idea.
http://digg.com/design/Jumbo_architecture_turns_Boeing_747_into_dream_home_ - middleman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks interesting but whats supporting the building, just the planes themselves? I notice a ring running around the fuselages but that cant be enough to support all the weight even if its aircraft aluminum. Looks like there would be allot of sunlight in there also.
- Powerdrift, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looks really weird from outside, but inside looks cool.
- jvkr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Looks awesome. It reminds me I-robot movie
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2the day this flies i might as well build forts in my backyard as apartments
- phidong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Form follows function.. looks like they forgot something there. It doesn't look too functional to me, unless walking inside tubes is your kind of thing...
- jasongetsdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Form Follows Function" describes just one approach to design, the Functionalist approach. Function and form are not necessarily coupled. Look at the work of Frank Gehry. Do you see any relationship between the giant curvey blob and its use as a concert hall?
There is quite a bit of convenient functionality to using fuselages though. They have an upper and lower compartment so its easy to make space for mechanical and electrical systems and their shape is sort of natural for library stacks. the only thing I wonder about is how the cost of stripping them and preparing them for a building compairs with new construction. These days, form follows money. - 71M80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your right phidong. This building looks dumb.
If it was up to me i'd dot the around the country as playgrounds for little kids.
The companys should also be made to recycle their waste.
- jasongetsdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Form Follows Function" describes just one approach to design, the Functionalist approach. Function and form are not necessarily coupled. Look at the work of Frank Gehry. Do you see any relationship between the giant curvey blob and its use as a concert hall?
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like the thing I have in my fridge for holding beer cans. good idea to turn that into a building.
- piratearggghhh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm waiting for the redneck version where it's made of recycled campers.
- the_d, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Haha, they're doing the terrorists' jobs for them...
/lame joke - bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1....where are the books? (just to cover my ass, yes i rtfa and i saw the part about the "mechanical distribution of the books"...but where are they?)
- 71M80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There on the internet. Librarys arn't needed anymore.
- rbvmusic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5dugg just for the amelie poster on that one pic
- razmech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1According to the article, there are a ton of discarded fuselages strewn all over deserts of the western states. Has anybody found any on google maps?
- nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hope they don't serve old Airline Food!
- postmarxter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And here I was trying to gget on the digg front 4 days ago!!!
http://digg.com/design/Jalisco_Library_proposal_stacks_discarded_airplane_fuselages
More images at:
http://www.noticiasarquitectura.info/especiales/biblio-jalisco-lot-ek.htm - GreatBunzinni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This concept (recycling industrial components as housing units) isn't particularly new. In the 90s, when recycling steel was more expensive than making it, there were quite a few building projects which were made using used steel containers from the shipping industry. In the end quite a few buildings were made using that approach, including a London school.
But because shipping containers are everywhere and are a dime a dozen but airplane fuselages aren't all that frequent and cheap, I wonder what's the cost of using them as prefabricated units. - GhengisKhan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Like tubular, dude!
- gailwin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0eh i guess it's cool
get some of the planes out of the deserts.
i'd like to see them get the L1011 Tristars back up in the air.
I loved those planes - cneil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is an interesting story, but it shouldn't have made it to the homepage. If you ever catch a dupe, it needs to be reported, the first link should be submitted in the comments section, and people should digg the story the first time it was submitted.
- gmerin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If we start recycling all the old wide-body fuselages, where will J.J. get sets for his new LOST spinoffs: LOST The Next Generation, Return to LOST, and LOST, DC-9?
All these will require wide-bodies to demonstrate the essential midair airplane breakup, as well as the obligatory "man sucked into jet engine" scene for the pilot episode. ;) - twinmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'd hit it.
- fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Does this make a building that can be flown into airplanes?
- baudbwoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Osjpr
@protiek
some of us do care about dupes just not a big deal and @protiek the link he gave actaully has better pics. - MaxPowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ugly.
- UltravioletMars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not trying to be rude or anything but this looks more like a student project than anything else. (long on cool, short on practice)
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