My comment in the post:
Pretty cool but it seems to me that it would be an infrastructural nightmare. Roads, electricity, water, Garbage, Schools, WalMart...
Is this just an idea for a well designed exburb?

These make me afraid because they look like the post WWII propaganda of suburb. These houses will not be able to go into these sites without major damage to these beautiful sites. If, however, they were meant to populate the dead space that are the sides of highways and roads I begin to get excited.

Dryland is not a myth, I have seen it!

it is cool but i'm just concerned about the structure: it can work for the vertical load (the stem seems quite big) but it looks very fragile for the windload (in the joint between the stem and the billboard ) and in a seismic condition... anyway it is cool

who needs plumbing? you bring the beer in coolers on the back of your boat and you pee off the side.

that's what the open railings are for!

this whole thing makes me uncomfortable.

What whole thing?

i love it and hate, but that is bound to happen when someone actually puts pen to paper an idea you had over 10 years ago....

iaakuza, me thinks the final solution is a lot less elegant than this "structure" portends....

...why?...

I think "not per" is the only one here who gets it.

dude, architects make things so complicated.

is that a floating ice bin? Lots of space to load the beer - I want one

i had a prof. that was working on something similar in a floodzone in florida or georgia and the whole house was going to be elevated 10' on a giant steel column, roughtly 6' in diameter, that would carry up all services.

this wasn't meant to be a typology or a community, but a unique project in a tough and demanding environment.

but would you really want your the mast of your 46' hunter bobbing around in your view? and it doesn't make a strong case for the urban condition.

that's the same project! was your prof someone from front, holz?

so now i'm confused. is this some sort of post-global-warming/melting-of-the-arctic-ice/rising-of-sea-levels project? because if that's the case, i'm digging it much more.

cue the soundtrack to 'waterland'.

Shame about the site's in the pictures - i dont see the house ever being practical in the middle of the ocean or city. Could be usefull in floodzones or steep terrain areas though.

I've seen similar concept at least 3 times while I was at SCI-Arc, living in LA it was a pretty obvious idea due to all the huge billboard structures around. None of the SCI-Arc projects had such pretty renderings though.

See COA's Brix restaurant for actual use of billboard structure in a project. (I think that was the name of the resturant, not sure and no time to look it up.)

SW... that's how i was reading it... i assumed that it was a sort of post-apocalyptic project... we could use them down here in florida since we're gonna be underwater in 20 years...

yeah, definitely not new, but clean resolution and presentation.

a guy in my undergrad, chris brooks (in japan last i heard. you out there chris?), used the la freeway and 'occupied' billboards in his thesis project in '91.

Q:wouldn't it be cool if....
A: yeah for about five minutes. let's move on shall we.

They kind of remind me an idea of for 'tombs' for ad agency executives. iihhhiiii...

i work near this place and the billboard is gone and it's no longer called Brix. but it was called Brix and it's in COA's book...they've left the huge lower portion of the post and welded a new 6 inch dia. post on top to mount the new sign. if you didn't know the story behind it , you'd think, "why is that big ass 2' dia. billboard post holding up a tiny sign?"

Brix couldn't compete with El Pollo Loco.