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

Kirsten Dirksen has great channel content. Good to see it linked here.<p>[edit: spelling]

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.<p>$100,000 initial purchase + $120,000 moving and renovation expenses &#x2F; 1,066 square feet = $207&#x2F;sq. foot.<p>For our foreign friends that is $2200 per square meter.<p>That does not seem competitive.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;m a quirky retired engineer do the same.<p>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&#x2F;toxic aviation materials throughout. Seems more like hipster &quot;recycling&quot; impractical bragging rights that anything else, and I&#x27;m all for unusual dwellings made out of reclaimed (almost) whatever, concrete culverts, or underground sprayed concrete+fiberglass &quot;eggs,&quot; but some things need proper recycling. Living in a nuclear reactor containment vessel seems like the next thing, but why?