Architect David Hertz of Studio of Environmental Architecture has a very interesting summer ahead of him. The designer well known for his “green” heart is neck deep getting a house ready for Francie Rehwald, who wants her new abode made entirely of recycled parts of a Boeing 747 airliner. Found at an airplane junkyard in the Mojave Desert, 125-foot-long wing segments and other parts of the $40,000 jumbo were hauled to the Malibu location using a helicopter, costing $10,000 per hour.
The extraordinary green home, when completed, will include a 4,000-square foot home and several other buildings, including guest houses, a caretaker’s residence and a barn. And that’s not all. The house will also feature an art studio made from a piece of fuselage with a part of the tail being used to make a viewing platform for visitors to take in the view of the hills toward the Pacific Ocean while the nose cone will be converted into a meditation pavilion, and one of the guest houses will be crafted out of a first-class lounge of the airliner. The wings of the plane will provide the roofing for the entire setup, which is all set to be one of the more spectacular homes made from recycled materials in the whole world.
Source: MSNBC
