Model Home Monday: The 747 Wing House

The architect and owner of design firm SEA (Studio for Environmental Architecture) David Hertz is building a much-discussed 747 Wing House, which is still under construction in the Santa Monica mountains. The home appropriates parts of a retired jet for a multi-structured residence that embodies the idea of reuse into home design.

“I drew a section that was curved like the hull of a ship” for the 55-acre site, he recalls, “and when I completed hat ellipse, I realized it looked like an airplane wing.” Knowing that he was looking at an expensive roof, Hertz opted instead to “repurpose a real one.” An airplane wing, he found, already offered the means “to achieve the highest strength and the lightest weight.” Even better? “This is a 100 percent post-consumer product, and it’s a $200 million airplane that we bought for $30,000—the price of its primary raw material, aluminum.”

To see more of David Hertz and his firm's other completed works, visit their website.

via: Plenty Magazine