Solo living in a camper 727 as architecture of collapse – Kirsten Dirksen

Kirsten Dirksen has great channel content. Good to see it linked here.

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According to the video he paid $100k for the fuselage, and another article quoted him saying he paid an additional $120k to move and renovate and the square footage is 1,066.

$100,000 initial purchase + $120,000 moving and renovation expenses / 1,066 square feet = $207/sq. foot.

For our foreign friends that is $2200 per square meter.

That does not seem competitive.

And anywhere other than outside of Portland where the average high seems to be 72 (22C) and the average low 71 (21C) (this is only a little bit jokey) will require a great deal more insulation.

As a charming project for a quirky retired engineer I am a huge fan. I really like it. It is a charming project done by a quirky retired engineer that made me smile and I would really like to visit, and maybe one day when I'm a quirky retired engineer do the same.

It is nothing more.

I saw this and similar projects a long time ago. The problems include: the weird shape of living in a tube, not being at ground level, and hazmat/toxic aviation materials throughout. Seems more like hipster "recycling" impractical bragging rights that anything else, and I'm all for unusual dwellings made out of reclaimed (almost) whatever, concrete culverts, or underground sprayed concrete+fiberglass "eggs," but some things need proper recycling. Living in a nuclear reactor containment vessel seems like the next thing, but why?