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He built underground maze of light-filled earth homes in CA Sierras [video]
- bix6 1y agoSaving to finish watching later this is super cool
- more_corn 1y agoNeat!
- johnohara 1y agoKirsten did a nice job on Forestiere Gardens in Fresno, CA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKRPoQKynk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKRPoQKynk
- ompogUe 1y agoI've watched this probably 5 times since it was released. It's all-the-way-around incredible.
- trhway 1y agolooks like the fortifications and their underground parts from the previous centuries in my homecity that we were exploring as free-range children back in USSR when all those fortifications were sitting as is, unused/unattended and freely accessible.
- mutagen 1y agoSome amazing ideas here, definitely inspiring. The trees right up against the above-ground structures make me weep for defensible space. While the underground structures may be survivable in the event of a wildfire and the trees are beautiful I'd be happier seeing a property that feels more survivable in the types of fires we've been seeing in California.
- trhway 1y agonatural question and way more complicated and interesting in its complexity here than the actual architecture - what about permits? Everybody can build, not everybody can manage getting permits for what they can build :)
- ThereYourGo 1y agoThey do discuss permits at ~5:50
- davidw 1y agoBeautiful, but I bet those things cost a boatload. Also, I don't know how much 'environmentalism' is the goal there, but most Americans' CO2 output on a personal level involves heating their homes and transportation, and building isolated housing where you have to drive a lot to get to anything doesn't help. You're better off with shared walls in a walkable city if you really want to lower your impact. Still, that's a really beautiful part of the world and it looks well done.
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- fortran77 1y agoWere they twisty and all alike?
- leobg 1y agoBook recommendation: Recovering America : A More Gentle Way to Build [0] Also, Mike Oehler (1938—2016) and his “The $50 and Up Underground House Book”. [0] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/recovering-america--a-more-gentle-way-to-build_malcolm-wells/439616/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/recovering-america--a-more-gen... [1] https://undergroundhousing.com/ https://undergroundhousing.com/
- ddellacosta 1y agoHeh I had a feeling that this was going to be Kirsten Dirksen before I clicked on it...great channel, lots of amazing projects to see there.
- enduser 1y agoWhat happens when the drainage (he said PVC pipes below, waterproofing cloth above) fails? Seems like you'd have to rip up all this concrete to fix it..