While it may suit keen fishermen, this experimental concept for an Australian coastal home is not for the faint-hearted.

The design for a five-storey coastal getaway by Melbourne architecture firm Modscape was inspired by the way barnacles cling to the hull of a ship.

The entry to the home is from the top-floor garage where brave souls have the option of taking the lift or a winding staircase down to the living areas.

The home design comprises three bedrooms, two bathrooms as well as living and dining areas.

The open-air ground level feaures a barbecue area and a spa.

According to Modscape: “The living spaces feature minimalistic furnishings to ensure that the transcendent views of the ocean and the unique spatial experience of the location remain the integral focal point of the design.”

Modscape are known for their use of prefabricated technology and given the precarious location of this property the home would not be built in the traditional sense, it would be assembled.

As Modscape puts it, the home would comprise “a series of stacked modules that are anchored into the cliff face using engineered steel pins”.

Though it may be a poor choice of words, the home also boasts an “absolute connection with the ocean”.

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The design is purely conceptual at this point but that hasn’t stopped it being picked up by international architecture blogs.

Curbed.com described it as “a shotgun-style home that’s been needlessly tipped on its side”.

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i could see my self living there

http://modscape.com.au/cliff-house-by-modscape-concept/

I’ll stick with mowing, thanks.

I don’t like heights. That looks like a soft marly limestone it’s anchored into. I don’t like its chances of staying there long.

Michael V said:

I’ll stick with mowing, thanks.

I don’t like heights. That looks like a soft marly limestone it’s anchored into. I don’t like its chances of staying there long.

It’s only an artists impression

The_observer said:

Michael V said:

I’ll stick with mowing, thanks.

I don’t like heights. That looks like a soft marly limestone it’s anchored into. I don’t like its chances of staying there long.

It’s only an artists impression

I’m sorry I don’t do impressions

>i could see my self living there

no worries, mate, write you will out to me.

I can’t see such a thing in a location like that ever getting approval.

Nup. I’d be worried about freak waves in a storm getting up to window height and bashing the windows in. Would have to evacuate every time storm are predicted.

party_pants said:

Nup. I’d be worried about freak waves in a storm getting up to window height and bashing the windows in. Would have to evacuate every time storm are predicted.

I’d be worried about Photoshop crashing and Windows refusing to save my brand new home.

there’s no way you could pin that in any distance to the face to make it safe fom falling off, there’s another chunk there ready to come away…

wasn’t so far back council here was redoing a clifftop drive and moved the road back some from cliff edge, I think it were over a weekend they came back on the monday and there was a large chunk of the old road gone, down, into the sea.

Bubblecar said:

party_pants said:

Nup. I’d be worried about freak waves in a storm getting up to window height and bashing the windows in. Would have to evacuate every time storm are predicted.

I’d be worried about Photoshop crashing and Windows refusing to save my brand new home.

Are you taking the piss?

It looks like a Tony Stark replacement home for the one that got blown up and fell down the cliff

Reminds me a bit of the cliffs at Dee Why. A friend of mine (Chris Y, for the benefit of MV) had a cave hideaway that required one to climb over the cliff edge to access it. It still gives me goose bumps thinking about it sometimes.

I wouldn’t like to be in the house when a cyclone hits.

They sure have a big septic tank, although used toilet paper caught on the rocks might spoil the view.

morrie said:

Reminds me a bit of the cliffs at Dee Why. A friend of mine (Chris Y, for the benefit of MV) had a cave hideaway that required one to climb over the cliff edge to access it. It still gives me goose bumps thinking about it sometimes.

That rock is much softer and crumblier than the Hawkesbury Sandstone.

(I saw your reply to my questions – thanks very much. I many have to keep a look out for this: https://morrie2.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/wood-ear-an-asian-cooking-favourite/)

Michael V said:

I’ll stick with mowing, thanks.

I don’t like heights. That looks like a soft marly limestone it’s anchored into. I don’t like its chances of staying there long.

+1

Also, shorelines tend to get pretty windy. I don’t think I’d feel very secure in the high winds.

Divine Angel said:

Also, shorelines tend to get pretty windy. I don’t think I’d feel very secure in the high winds.

Not just ocean shorelines. I lived in a house on Sydney harbour that ran three stories down the face of a cliff. It did have land underneath it but the entrance was across a bridge from the top of the cliff to the front door. When a decent gale blew across the harbour the whole place used to shake..

morrie said:

Divine Angel said:

Also, shorelines tend to get pretty windy. I don’t think I’d feel very secure in the high winds.

Not just ocean shorelines. I lived in a house on Sydney harbour that ran three stories down the face of a cliff. It did have land underneath it but the entrance was across a bridge from the top of the cliff to the front door. When a decent gale blew across the harbour the whole place used to shake..

That would have been scary.

I have this as a cubby house for the kiddies

The_observer said:

I have this as a cubby house for the kiddies

Looking at that makes my knees go wobbly, too.

The_observer said:

I have this as a cubby house for the kiddies

!http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Houses-In-Odd-Places-3.jpg

you’d wanna hope that tree is sturdy … oh it’s for the kids… never mind

Arts said:

The_observer said:

I have this as a cubby house for the kiddies

!http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Houses-In-Odd-Places-3.jpg

you’d wanna hope that tree is sturdy … oh it’s for the kids… never mind

There’s a trampoline underneath it.

No mowing needed here either

The_observer said:

No mowing needed here either

no mowing is easy… many people around these parts use fake lawn… the toruble with fake lawn is 1. it looks fake and 2. weeds still grow through. You can always ditch the lawn and grow a native garden with a path instead…

Arts said:

no mowing is easy… many people around these parts use fake lawn… the toruble with fake lawn is 1. it looks fake and 2. weeds still grow through. You can always ditch the lawn and grow a native garden with a path instead…

That is the way to go.

ms spock said:

Arts said:

no mowing is easy… many people around these parts use fake lawn… the toruble with fake lawn is 1. it looks fake and 2. weeds still grow through. You can always ditch the lawn and grow a native garden with a path instead…

That is the way to go.

This is very stylish, saves mowing & weeding & watering

I’ve got a garden that’s essentially clay, when it gets dry it cracks and its quite bumpy

should I somehow dig the entire soil over spray it with gypsum and add other soil to it and then level it?

spread a layer of proper soil over the garden and lay turf on it?

just spray the clay soil with gypsum and just level out the garden with soil and then sow with fresh grass seeds?

I’m trying to make the lawn respectable

does the water saver stuff really work?

The_observer said:

ms spock said:

Arts said:

no mowing is easy… many people around these parts use fake lawn… the toruble with fake lawn is 1. it looks fake and 2. weeds still grow through. You can always ditch the lawn and grow a native garden with a path instead…

That is the way to go.

This is very stylish, saves mowing & weeding & watering

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

The_observer said:

ms spock said:

Arts said:

no mowing is easy… many people around these parts use fake lawn… the toruble with fake lawn is 1. it looks fake and 2. weeds still grow through. You can always ditch the lawn and grow a native garden with a path instead…

That is the way to go.

This is very stylish, saves mowing & weeding & watering

I can see weeds in the cracks

ms spock said:

The_observer said:

ms spock said:

That is the way to go.

This is very stylish, saves mowing & weeding & watering

That would be:

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

And bars on the windows…..

buffy said:

And bars on the windows…..

anf large street numbers… must be LA

wookiemeister said:

I’ve got a garden that’s essentially clay, when it gets dry it cracks and its quite bumpy

should I somehow dig the entire soil over spray it with gypsum and add other soil to it and then level it?

spread a layer of proper soil over the garden and lay turf on it?

just spray the clay soil with gypsum and just level out the garden with soil and then sow with fresh grass seeds?

I’m trying to make the lawn respectable

does the water saver stuff really work?

This one:

“should I somehow dig the entire soil over spray it with gypsum and add other soil to it and then level it?”

is what I’m doing with mine

Fake lawn is ok as long as you’r not trying to make it look like lawn. There’s a house in my street has a putting green covered in astroturf. Actually doesn’t too bad, it’s done nice and neatly, and is not pretending to be anything else.

Arts said:

The_observer said:

ms spock said:

That is the way to go.

This is very stylish, saves mowing & weeding & watering

I can see weeds in the cracks

What could you do? Lots of pots full of succulents and cacti and everything else that is happy in pots. Need some sort of shade…

Looking at the neighbours, you are supposed to park your cars there.

party_pants said:

Fake lawn is ok as long as you’r not trying to make it look like lawn. There’s a house in my street has a putting green covered in astroturf. Actually doesn’t too bad, it’s done nice and neatly, and is not pretending to be anything else.

Neighbours of mine recently ripped up their entire front lawn, laid down new turf and spend two hours every day watering it all (they have a rainwater tank).

Arts said:

I can see weeds in the cracks

Plastic grass is no guarantee against weeds either.

party_pants said:

Fake lawn is ok as long as you’r not trying to make it look like lawn. There’s a house in my street has a putting green covered in astroturf. Actually doesn’t too bad, it’s done nice and neatly, and is not pretending to be anything else.

it still need maintenance… leaves still drop on it and weeds still grow through… and it hurts like hell if you fall over.. not for me. I like the real stuff.. despite the maintenance

morrie said:

Arts said:

I can see weeds in the cracks

Plastic grass is no guarantee against weeds either.

But you can apply weed killer liberally without worrying about killing the lawn.

morrie said:

Arts said:

I can see weeds in the cracks

Plastic grass is no guarantee against weeds either.
!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Morrie/weeds_zps5d1e0614.jpg

yes, I agree.. and said as much earlier

Arts said:

party_pants said:

Fake lawn is ok as long as you’r not trying to make it look like lawn. There’s a house in my street has a putting green covered in astroturf. Actually doesn’t too bad, it’s done nice and neatly, and is not pretending to be anything else.

it still need maintenance… leaves still drop on it and weeds still grow through… and it hurts like hell if you fall over.. not for me. I like the real stuff.. despite the maintenance

They vacuum it with one of those leaf blowers that have a reverse flow function.

morrie said:

Arts said:

I can see weeds in the cracks

Plastic grass is no guarantee against weeds either.

Yeah, but at least you can use the Liquid Lawnmower to kill the weeds without killing the plastic grass.

Obviously the next door neighbours are in the money,

pavers, a car port & a pot plant