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Unread 05-17-2012, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Mostly in my head
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Sorry, Lamborgotti, those don't qualify as weird to me. Victorians with unusual paint colors (period accurate for all I know) and some modern ones. Weird is like a house built of tin cans or beer cans, or shipping containers, etc.

 
Unread 05-17-2012, 12:51 PM
 
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I think this would qualify:

 
Unread 05-17-2012, 12:52 PM
 
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Sorry, Lamborgotti, those don't qualify as weird to me. Victorians with unusual paint colors (period accurate for all I know) and some modern ones. Weird is like a house built of tin cans or beer cans, or shipping containers, etc.

LOL, okay, then I guess it just got a whole lot easier explaining why there are no "weird" houses in Utah then. Apparently something is only weird if it's a heap of garbage.
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 12:56 PM
 
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Oh and then there is the "Up" house. Can't remember where it is located through...
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Soon to be Plano....
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You'd be surprised what they can do with shipping containers. I have found a few things, but thanks for the help. It just seems that they are much harder to find in Utah than anywhere else I've tried to look and, yes, most of them are in the middle of nowhere.
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 01:38 PM
 
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You'd be surprised what they can do with shipping containers. I have found a few things, but thanks for the help. It just seems that they are much harder to find in Utah than anywhere else I've tried to look and, yes, most of them are in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, I know what can be done with shipping containers (I'm an architecture student), and there was even a proposal in Salt Lake a few years ago for a shipping container building (see below). I just don't see the point in drawing an arbitrary line between what is "weird" and not based on whether or not the material was intended to be used for architecture. Shipping containers are trendy these days, just as victorian houses, streamline moderne houses, green houses, etc., are or have been in the past; they're still unusual, so I don't see the difference.

 
Unread 05-17-2012, 02:21 PM
 
Location: God's Gift to Mankind for flying anything
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what can be done with shipping containers
hehehehe, reminds me of the ULD containers used in commercial aircraft.
They look like an aluminium container, the size of a flat pallet but instead of canvas, they are made form alu sides. One side of the bottom is angled so it fits in the hold of the aircraft.

When they were used to ship goods to Africa, you never get the containers back !
People there start living in them ...

ULD containers - Google Search
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 04:17 PM
 
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Oh and then there is the "Up" house. Can't remember where it is located through...
The "Up" house is in Herriman.
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 05:17 PM
 
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The "Up" house is in Herriman.
I thought it was in daybreak?
 
Unread 05-17-2012, 06:38 PM
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Location: The other side of the mountain
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It is in Daybreak.
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