THE A.C.H - A NEW ADDITION TO METALLURGY
This is my idea for the perfect and sustainable, simplistic dwelling for the mountain lover. I originally got the idea by dropping a few pinches of Irish moss and bark on my table, I added some filter-tips that I split from my Marlboros and there you have it! I had an eureka moment.
An apostrophe of insight, sudden eureka! moment (a great and exciting idea that just springs to mind). I had been in the mountains backpacking and may of stumbled on invention.
Alpine Cylinders would be made out of recycled pipes (tanks, containers, jet engines), twice the dimensions of a human in height and long enough to weld in a nice bedframe, a study table, dressers, a sink and shelves. What I am describing is just the tip of the ice-berg. This invention led me to the discovery of tiny-homes a new wave project inspired perhaps by the hippies and oldies of the 60's but this new tiny-home idea is different. I have not seen any cylinders on the massive YouTube playlists of "Tiny Home Tours". Maybe they think a cyclindrical object would roll over.
That's a very staunt possibility. Also transport is a key issue but unfortunately this is a more immobile home. Large square bricks would be needed on both sides of the Cylinder to keep it from eroding clockwise or counter. And helicopters seem the only sensible means of getting it to your mountain-top garden. Yet when I was posting this to Facebook I suddenly got the idea that because of the shape and small size, these Cylinders could be rolled or gradually pushed uphill with tractors. I'll be sure to explain how this would work thoroughly in the show.
Second of all this type of project cannot be started from scratch. The stages:
1. Cleaning them
2. Sanitizing them for living
3. Painting/spraying them with rust-remover
4. Then finally painting them with white paint, inside and outside.
Other Factors
1. Sliding vent on roof of Cylinder. Ventillation must be installed. Very strong steel-alloy for the sliding vents.
2. 2 small circular submarine-windows made of reinforced glass or very strong glass. Although some people might think windows would be optional, I disagree. I think without a few windows that office or research-lab feel would not exist, neither would a homely feel for a gardening-lover.
The door is a great feature, like an airplane door. Eventually solar panels could be installed to the roof. Running water can be installed just like in tiny-homes but only for one stainless steel kitchen sink. No toilets inside the Cylinder.
This cylinder only looks well in white. I have thought of other colours but they don't offer the veil of seclusion white offers. I have thought about a coat of camouflage for the exterior of the Alpine Cylinder, that is an option. Places like New Caledonia, Coral Sea would benefit from that type of feature. I could also imagine the elder war-veteran pertaining to a camouflage-painted-alpine-cylinder.
Imagine this..
You are a retired military man and you want to live right in the bush. Say Roscommon, Cairngorms, Zillertal Alps, Romania, Ukraine or the jungles of New Caledonia, wherever. The Alpine-Cyclinder-Home would supply all your basic needs. With your hammock and your 4-wheeler outside the window, you will not be let down by its strength and durability, all year-round.
Instead of leaving your campsite to have to make a fire, you would be leaving a comfortable double-bed to do this. You wont have to worry about terrential rain, a metallic home will keep you dry all year round.
Now just while writing this up guys I just thought of the problem with ice. If snow gets trapped in the door, would you get stuck outside for the winter? Could you get stuck inside for the winter? If an avalanche fell on it, what would happen?
Ans: No.
I think installing a new component to the A.C.H might be a wise move. Some kind of emergency door. I thought about this for a long time one night that the Alpine.Cylinder.Home would need two doors, one on either side but I thought that might a be a bit messy. So the door or (escape exit) would have to go somewhere else.
Some kind of mechanism with the air-vent, you could have a third sliding panel that would suffice as a door, this could be accessed with a key and would have to made from ice-resistant material. So you would have to find somewhere to boil some hot water, apply it to the third vent-panel and then dig your way out of an avalanche.
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