Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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Ashcans: Jan 2, 2006; Let's do the space-time warp again!

I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor.

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# ? May 14, 2024 00:17

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Ashcans posted:

I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor.

That�s also true of New York and San Francisco and scores more coastal metropoles.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:07

brugroffil: Nov 30, 2015

Chicago is built on the ruins of the great fire and much of the lakefront is garbage infill

# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:28

crazypeltast52: May 5, 2010

There are roads in Singapore that were on the coast once that now have blocks of skyscrapers on both sides. The big casino and it's attached mall are on the ocean side of a reclaimed bay that has been converted from salt to fresh water as they covered the outlet.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:49

drgitlin: Jul 25, 2003; luv 2 get custom titles from a forum that goes into revolt when its told to stop using a bad word.

The same is true for large parts of Monaco.

Large being relative because it's tiny.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:58

Youth Decay: Aug 18, 2015

Crappy and awesome at the same time

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 02:55

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

drgitlin posted:

True, but a marsh is not a swamp.

Ah, close enough for purposes of construction. A marsh is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is grass, a swamp is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is trees. It's just as dumb to try to build on one as the other.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:27

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

I was fine til I scrolled to the exposed rebar

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:34

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Phanatic posted:

Ah, close enough for purposes of construction. A marsh is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is grass, a swamp is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is trees. It's just as dumb to try to build on one as the other.

What if the principal vegetation is palms, which resemble trees but are actually grasses?

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:39

MrYenko: Jun 18, 2012; #2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Youth Decay posted:

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

I'm really digging the half Hitler's occult sun-worship temple, half Taliban-hideout motif.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:43

canyoneer: Sep 13, 2005; I only have canyoneyes for you

What are you yabba dabba doing?

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:49

nmfree: Aug 15, 2001; The Greater Goon: Breaking Hearts and Chains since 2006

Youth Decay posted:

Crappy and awesome at the same time

: the house

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:50

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Platystemon posted:

What if the principal vegetation is palms, which resemble trees but are actually grasses?

Then it's beachfront property

# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:53

Slugworth: Feb 18, 2001; If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Tunicate posted:

Then it's beachfront property

In which case, an even dumber place to build than either swamp or marsh.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 04:29

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Youth Decay posted:

Crappy and awesome at the same time

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

Pretty sure this is where Luke Skywalker grew up op

# ? Sep 25, 2017 05:40

brugroffil: Nov 30, 2015

I'm thinking it's supposed to be Flintstones House

# ? Sep 25, 2017 05:50

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

brugroffil posted:

I'm thinking it's supposed to be Flintstones House

Please don't mock my modern stone-age family fanfic.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 06:23

Javid: Oct 21, 2004

Looks like a cougar habitat at a zoo or something.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 06:37

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > DIY & Hobbies > Crappy Construction Tales: like a cougar habitat at a zoo or something

# ? Sep 25, 2017 06:43

ullerrm: Dec 31, 2012; Oh, the network slogan is true -- "watch FOX and be damned for all eternity!"

Ashcans posted:

I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor.

Seattle too. When it was settled, the entire city was in a coastal mud flat, either at or below sea level, with no underground plumbing or stable water pressure. And all the buildings made out of wood! Perfect fodder for a Great Fire in 1889 that basically leveled the city because all of the above made firefighting impossible.

After the fire, they decided to do a massive regrading project to raise the entire downtown area by 22 feet. Most of it they filled with dirt from hydrosluicing out a nearby hill, but some of it was just landfill garbage. This has caused all sorts of subsidence problems in the long run.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 07:26

Jaded Burnout: Jul 10, 2004

ullerrm posted:

When it was settled

Seattled.

If it helps, most of London is built on skeletons.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 07:46

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Youth Decay posted:

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

I'm going to guess it was meant to be a house, but never finished. Then it fell into disrepair and/or was squatted.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 09:36

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Jaded Burnout posted:

Seattled.

If it helps, most of London is built on skeletons.

The whole island is basically a graveyard.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 13:28

Space Skeleton: Sep 28, 2004

Youth Decay posted:

Crappy and awesome at the same time

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

Based on some clues like "tons of natural lighting", "high producing well", "room for a large garden", and how it looks as though the house is meant to be buried once completed to help regulate temperature without needing electricity, I'm guessing this is meant to be as self-sufficient as possible either for hippie or prepper reasons.

Why would such a labor of love be abandoned? Well I have a guess about that too.

Looks a hell of a lot more recent than the house, when the person started building there was likely forest or field back there. Soon as the school went up the now very upset hippie/prepper probably bailed.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 14:03

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

Youth Decay posted:

Crappy and awesome at the same time

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

I like it. Catch is, I'd have to get divorced to live there.

Well, and move to Eugene.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 14:06

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Youth Decay posted:

Crappy and awesome at the same time

Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.

I have to wonder what possessed someone to say "You know what? I'd like to live in Luke's house from the beginning of Star Wars!"

# ? Sep 25, 2017 14:14

Ashcans: Jan 2, 2006; Let's do the space-time warp again!

I wish that I could make out what's on the whiteboard, it probably holds answers to so many questions.

The abandoned 'concrete decor' catalogue/poster is a nice touch.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 14:31

brugroffil: Nov 30, 2015

Space Skeleton posted:

Based on some clues like "tons of natural lighting", "high producing well", "room for a large garden", and how it looks as though the house is meant to be buried once completed to help regulate temperature without needing electricity, I'm guessing this is meant to be as self-sufficient as possible either for hippie or prepper reasons.

Why would such a labor of love be abandoned? Well I have a guess about that too.

Looks a hell of a lot more recent than the house, when the person started building there was likely forest or field back there. Soon as the school went up the now very upset hippie/prepper probably bailed.

Went back on google earth's timeline, and that school's been there since at least 1994. It looks like they were building this...thing in 2011 maybe?

# ? Sep 25, 2017 15:54

Youth Decay: Aug 18, 2015

brugroffil posted:

Went back on google earth's timeline, and that school's been there since at least 1994. It looks like they were building this...thing in 2011 maybe?

Zillow says the house was built in 1988.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 17:21

Darchangel: Feb 12, 2009; Tell him about the blower!

Collateral Damage posted:

I'm going to guess it was meant to be a house, but never finished. Then it fell into disrepair and/or was squatted.

I'm thinking unfinished, given the exposed wiring left long, and I think the exposed rebar is meant to anchor more of the sculpted "rock" on the walls.
It would probably be pretty nifty with paint, tile and other finished treatments.

# ? Sep 25, 2017 20:53

Mercury Ballistic: Nov 14, 2005; not gun related

Messing around in Google Earth Engine and using Landsat data and it looks like that school was built a few years after the hobbit/cougar hab. Can't hide from Landsat.
The center school building started in 1990 or so, then 2009 for the one on the right and 2016 for the one on the left, but Sentinel data disputes that last one. I could be mistaken though on all of this.
https://earthengine.google.com/

Mercury Ballistic fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Sep 25, 2017

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