I was once asked if I could design a hurricane-proof house to protect
the owner and his art-collection.  Sure! sez I, but I don't know how
much enjoyment you'll get out of living in a big styrofoam cooler.

-jc


On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Ruth Barton wrote:

> You want to see a house made of extruded foam?  There's one about 10
> miles
> from us.  I understand it is very uncomfortable to live is as it is so
> airtight the walls sweat all the time.  I'm not sure if anyone lives
> in it
> anymore or not.  It was built as part of the "Santa's Land" complex.
> There
> are actually 2 of these structures, one was used as a "pancake house"
> for
> several years and I guess they did a rousing business of selling
> pancakes
> there.  I think these things were built by some guy who did foam
> insulating
> for a business, possibly a relative of the owner of "Santa's Land" at
> the
> time.  Ruth
>
>
>
>
>
> At 6:51 AM -0500 3/4/05, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>> -jc
>>
>> If Miss Bouncy (why do we assume they will get married?) gets a water
>> bed she may need an engineer. If she gets a fireplace then we know
>> already it will be a heat-a-lator installed by a carpenter with a
>> screwdriver. Houses should be extruded out of foam and set in place
>> with
>> blimps. The damn things should float, blow away intact in high winds,
>> and move when the mud slides. The New Discoursets should design
>> communities composed of units of sea containers with applied
>> traditional
>> details such as plastic columns and pediments. I would also suggest a
>> good deal of neon lighting. I continue to believe that Heineken was
>> brilliant when they designed their beer bottles so that you could
>> build
>> walls out of them. (On the stonework of the Hessian Hut, circ 1915,
>> there are wine bottles embedded on the interior side of the wall. It
>> made for an interesting brief discussion of the crew as to the need to
>> maintain authenticity as in not removing the bottles simply because it
>> was a new technique to us and at first seemed out of context.) What
>> ever
>> happened to the good old days?
>>
>> Hey, bro... is your Skype up yet?
>>
>> ][<
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