While I might be slightly squeamish about staying in Austrian Andreas Strauss’s open-to-the-public, semi-outdoor, pay-what-you-want dasparkhotel, I love the idea of using drain pipe sections as small outdoor structures. I have no idea if it’s really all that cost-effective. My guess is that the pipe itself is pretty cheap, but getting it where you want it to be is not. But high cool points.
Yeah, I’ve thought about these as shelter of some kind, but as you say, getting it to location might be expensive. I’d like to have one in my backyard, though – maybe strategically placed out of the sun with a little mosquito netting over the ends. Looks like a cool space to rest and think.
I enjoy these articles on small shelters, BTW, like this and some of Deek’s Yellow House exploits. Good Stuff, Make:
I imagine the custom-built bedframe isn’t cheap either, but it’s still neat looking.
Could be another maker space form!
“Drain Pipe Hotel: Welcome Hobbits!”
“Drain Pipe Hotel: Welcome Hobbits!”
This may be a naive question, but where’s the insulation? Won’t naked concrete pipe sections get rather cold over night?
This may be a naive question, but where’s the insulation? Won’t naked concrete pipe sections get rather cold over night?
This may be a naive question, but where’s the insulation? Won’t naked concrete pipe sections get rather cold over night?
My wife and I have outdoor kennels for our dogs, this gives me ideas !
Three concerns: 1) bathroom, 2) minibar, 3) phone to call for room service!
Three concerns: 1) bathroom, 2) minibar, 3) phone to call for room service!
It’s a sewer pipe, who needs a bathroom?
1) Porta-potty; 2) BYOB; 3) Cell phone with Domino’s on speed dial!
my elementary school used to have a few of these on the playground. hanging out in “the pipes” was the coolest part of recess. how awesome these are!
That look’s nice,how are rates for like a month?
..dasparkhotel works with a pay as you wish system !!
That look’s nice,how are rates for like a month?
I looked into this… up to 80inch diameter, up to 3000$ as memory serves, up to 12,000 lbs!… not exactly carbon footprint lightweight, unless you amortize over 1000 years!! Build a nice, freshly carbon-sequestered pine mini bunk instead. Concrete takes a lot of fossil fuels to produce.
you can buy a nice two-piece 14foot diameter metal culvert (2 x 30 feet long sections) for $60,000 just about 10 miles North from St. Louis on I-55 in Illinois on the West side of the highway. Look for giant spray painted number on tube. I wanted to make a quonset garage with it, but PRICEY!
This isn’t the first time people have lived in pipes! The Oakland Museum of California tells this story in the Gallery of California History: At the foot of 19th Avenue in Oakland, nearly 200 people lived in leftover concrete sewer pipes, scavenging vegetables from nearby grocery wholesalers. They called their village “Miseryville,” but the press dubbed it “Pipe City.” From the Central Valley to coastal cities, homeless families built roadside camps and makeshift shantytowns like this. With foreclosures at an all-time high and migrants pouring into the state, housing was scarce and people found shelter where they could.
“To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one’s qualifications are that much stronger. One belongs.” — Oakland Post-Enquirer, December 3, 1932
This isn’t the first time people have lived in pipes! The Oakland Museum of California tells this story in the Gallery of California History:
At the foot of 19th Avenue in Oakland, nearly 200 people lived in leftover concrete sewer pipes, scavenging vegetables from nearby grocery wholesalers. They called their village “Miseryville,” but the press dubbed it “Pipe City City.” From the Central Valley to coastal cities, homeless families built roadside camps and makeshift shantytowns like this. With foreclosures at an all-time high and migrants pouring into the state, housing was scarce and people found shelter where they could.
“To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one’s qualifications are that much stronger. One belongs.” — Oakland Post-Enquirer, December 3, 1932
Dig it into a hill and you could have a wine cave.
i want you think outside of the box for a few seconds: could unit be used for tempary housing, i know it doesnt have running water.
could it be semi-fully berried for fall out selter or emergance cases.
but i think its a grate idea and i had the time or money i would love to visit and stay at any cost i just would like to experance the ideas.
thank you rod gandy usa
like i said before could be used as temper housing, fall-out selter, if berried in the back yard for emergance perposes, store food, water, fuel, living items in on selter and living in another.
i tink its a great idea, and if i had time, money to travel there i would just to experance the new idea.
thank you
rod gandy mesa az usa
Very cool idea! I’d stay there. In fact modules like this would make a great home. With the multiple sizes you can get these concrete structures in the possibilities are endless.
Very cool idea! I’d stay there. In fact modules like this would make a great home. With the multiple sizes you can get these concrete structures in the possibilities are endless.
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