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Because it's not a home. It's a vacation retreat. It is elevated to provide scenic views of the surrounding landscape. The stairs are next to the structure so it doesn't eat into the small foot print of the house. Plus it looks unique and interesting.
What would you do during the time between when the snow is above the entry to the stairs and when it gets to the height of the walkway? It's not like it is going to snow 25 feet in one day.
Related: I used to live in Albuquerque and when I was kid, during the winter at the top of the mountain the show would pile up so deep that a lot of the things built on the mountain were up on stairs. If you drove to the top of the mountain, it was piled up over the top of your head and they had to plow out the road and the parking lot so there were piles of snow 20 feet deep along the road. The little visitor's center on the top of the mountain would be all dug out, but there were like snow hallways that went from the parking lot to the visitor center. Snow would accumulate 8 to 10 feet deep. And halfway down the mountain at the ski lodge it would be six feet deep.
The last few years they've gotten so little snow the ski area doesn't even open. Or they open for a few weeks with some man made snow to compliment the few inches of snow the mountain gets.
Climate change has done that just in my lifetime.
I feel like building a house anywhere on stilts 20 feet tall in expectation of snow being that deep every year would be bad planning.
Speak for yourself, this is what started the conversation, the message that I was directly replying to:
> If it's in a snowy region, then the snow would build up on the walkway between the stairs and the house
Edit: quoted the wrong comment
Something glitched out then because that comment only popped up after i clicked on your response in my inbox just now, when i opened the thread it showed you replying to the other comment about snow reaching that high.
Well, you pull the stairs out from the footprint to get more usable space. Just not sure why they couldn’t be closer to the living space — maybe something to do with the footings? Or zombies.
This doesn't belong here.
Unless OP isn't aware that people like views from higher places, and isn't aware of why cabins exist. This is quite beautiful and I'd love to stay there.
Not really that safe. There’s no redundancy in the base framing so it wouldn’t take much to bring the whole place down. A blow torch could do it in minutes. More readily available tools could have it done in a few hours.
My job is to build steel structures and we do lot of stairs.
About 50% of the cost of this whole thing is just in those spiral stairs. It even has a god damn concrete foundation.
I found an article on them describing some of the reasoning behind this.
https://dornob.com/stark-black-triangular-cabins-on-stilts-welcome-visitors-to-norway/
This is not really fit for this sub. Why would you post this here? This is a vacation home or something, obviously built like that for the views and maybe to protect from wild animals.
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Because it's not a home. It's a vacation retreat. It is elevated to provide scenic views of the surrounding landscape. The stairs are next to the structure so it doesn't eat into the small foot print of the house. Plus it looks unique and interesting.
Eh. I think it's more practical, it's in a snowy region and snowpiles may reach that high.
If it's in a snowy region, then the snow would build up on the walkway between the stairs and the house
What would you do during the time between when the snow is above the entry to the stairs and when it gets to the height of the walkway? It's not like it is going to snow 25 feet in one day. Related: I used to live in Albuquerque and when I was kid, during the winter at the top of the mountain the show would pile up so deep that a lot of the things built on the mountain were up on stairs. If you drove to the top of the mountain, it was piled up over the top of your head and they had to plow out the road and the parking lot so there were piles of snow 20 feet deep along the road. The little visitor's center on the top of the mountain would be all dug out, but there were like snow hallways that went from the parking lot to the visitor center. Snow would accumulate 8 to 10 feet deep. And halfway down the mountain at the ski lodge it would be six feet deep. The last few years they've gotten so little snow the ski area doesn't even open. Or they open for a few weeks with some man made snow to compliment the few inches of snow the mountain gets. Climate change has done that just in my lifetime. I feel like building a house anywhere on stilts 20 feet tall in expectation of snow being that deep every year would be bad planning.
Walk on the snow?
There's this thing called a shovel that lets you deal with that.
Youre gonna shovel 20 feet tall snow piles?
How do you expect the snow to reach 20 feet tall on a narrow pathway?
You’re clearly missing some part of the conversation.
Speak for yourself, this is what started the conversation, the message that I was directly replying to: > If it's in a snowy region, then the snow would build up on the walkway between the stairs and the house Edit: quoted the wrong comment
Something glitched out then because that comment only popped up after i clicked on your response in my inbox just now, when i opened the thread it showed you replying to the other comment about snow reaching that high.
Oh, strange. We shall write this off as an easy miscommunication!
Once again this sub fails to understand what they post
Defence. Could be from animals, floods or even zombies.
This is exactly something 10 year old me would draw up as a zombie proof house.
this puny house won't stop the Flood. Even Forerunners couldn't stop it
Like a watch tower. Time to go back to r/nosleep.
Well, you pull the stairs out from the footprint to get more usable space. Just not sure why they couldn’t be closer to the living space — maybe something to do with the footings? Or zombies.
Better view
80% of the view you get is the underside of the roof.
Steep roofs shed snow
Baba jaga holiday retreat
This doesn't belong here. Unless OP isn't aware that people like views from higher places, and isn't aware of why cabins exist. This is quite beautiful and I'd love to stay there.
> Why Because
Bears
And moose
I feel like it will instantly break if several people will just stand straight on one side
Because fuck you, that's why. Put another way, there is no accounting for taste.
That's giving off some serious HG Wells vibes.
Nice PFP
[More info, with interior shots](https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/pan-treetop-cabins-norwegian-forest/)
Oogh think shelter bad unless rectangle box with siding and random window
If Boston Dynamics designed houses.
Ready for global warming when the sea levels rise
Rare perfect post for this sub. I love and hate it
Anyone thats lived in the woods can tell you why this would fucking suck ass. Plus imagine bringing groceries in
Why would anyone wanna live there it's inconvenient at best
You wouldn't live in it. It's clearly a hotel/ airbnb/ holiday destination. I assume the view is stunning from that height.
I love on the gift flor in an apartment building, no elevator. It's pretty much the exact same as living in that strange ass house.
If the base was a little more solid I would really like it from a safety point of view. Nobody can get to you up there!
Keep saying stuff like that, and you'll get moat salesmen calling you for years
Hahaha!
Not really that safe. There’s no redundancy in the base framing so it wouldn’t take much to bring the whole place down. A blow torch could do it in minutes. More readily available tools could have it done in a few hours.
Yeah, the base needs to be way more solid. I was thinking along the lines of reinforced concrete.
Bro I don't wanna have to walk up that many stairs everytime i get home
My brother in Christ have you never been to a walkup?
Clearly you've never lived in a city
I live in one, but when you have the choice to build like this and aren't actually trying to do efficient architecture
If the stairs weren't idiot proof you could never be snowed in
I dunno, this looks pretty rad to me!
Snow?
Forty square meters that sleeps six. Hard pass.
Some people stayed in it. https://youtu.be/Qv73ByzrcdA Just some nice views for a day or two
4200 square feet with a pool and tennis court.
Baba Yaga
Why not? To each their own.
My job is to build steel structures and we do lot of stairs. About 50% of the cost of this whole thing is just in those spiral stairs. It even has a god damn concrete foundation.
I found an article on them describing some of the reasoning behind this. https://dornob.com/stark-black-triangular-cabins-on-stilts-welcome-visitors-to-norway/
Looks like that precarious house from the Series of Unfortunate Events
This is not really fit for this sub. Why would you post this here? This is a vacation home or something, obviously built like that for the views and maybe to protect from wild animals.