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'Wing House' Built from a Recycled Boeing 747

by Caleb Johnson on June 18, 2010 at 09:10 AM

Wing House
Houses built from recycled materials are a popular trend, but the materials for one woman's house came from an unlikely source. According to Treehugger, Francie Rehwald's Malibu Hills, California, home is being partially built with parts from a Boeing 747. Architect David Hertz is charged with converting the 230-foot-long and 63-foot-tall airplane into a house that will sit on 55-acres just outside of Los Angeles. Cleverly dubbed the 'Wing House,' Hertz will mount the 125-foot-long wings onto the top of the main residence. The first-class cabin will be a guest house, and the cockpit will function as a meditation pavilion for Rehwald. The lower half of the plane's fuselage, or cargo hold, is being fashioned into an animal barn for endangered species.

The 'Wing House' should be completed by the end of the year. Though it's fantastic that the old Boeing is being repurposed for living quarters, the house itself seems to lack any 'green' features; which is odd given the 'recycled' nature of the building. Of course, that doesn't detract from the interesting concept Hertz is offering by casting a traveling vessel as a residence. We love it when ideas take flight... when designers think on a new plane, or rather, when architecture really lifts off. Yeah, that's the pun we were looking for! [From: Treehugger]

Tags: airplane, architecture, Boeing, Boeing747, david hertz, DavidHertz, design, green, House, plane, top, wing house, WingHouse

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