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Found this and thought it was interesting to look at and consider. Build your own house with the number of families you want to live with you with these multi-family unit plans.
Nice starting place, but I'd strongly recommend one roof, one kitchen, and one 'family' (that is literally "one household"). Those plans can be modified, though. The house we live in was built from a plan Cheryl and I had found 10 years earlier and we just redesigned parts to make it work for us.
Have always wanted a huge dome home with satellite rooms/passages. common area in main dome with monster thermal mass fireplace, kitchen, fellowship and eating area.
Bury half in a hillside for temper control and passive heat/cooling...
Have always wanted a huge dome home with satellite rooms/passages. common area in main dome with monster thermal mass fireplace, kitchen, fellowship and eating area.
Bury half in a hillside for temper control and passive heat/cooling...
I love it, and have considered something similar myself. Alongside several other similarly off-the-wall ideas:
A giant industrial scale greenhouse (very cheap per unit area). Can then add rooms inside however you like with no need to waterproof the roof, just build another bedroom whenever and wherever you like. Have an orchard as your lounge, sit under a tree in shorts while there's snow outside. Live in the Garden of Eden!
A castle made from eight 40-foot shipping containers. A square of four containers as the base (giving a 50 x 50 foot square building with a 30 x 30 foot central courtyard). Another square on top to make the walls two stories high. Many windows on the inside, to the courtyard, few on the outside. And battlements.
A multi-storey complex modelled on a conference venue.
A house sunk completely into a hillside with a fully glass front wall...
What I actually do in reality is never quite that extreme, as I have the moderating influence of a wife and finances. But if you start by considering the most crazy ideas, the sensible plan you finish with will be a lot better and more interesting than if you'd stayed in the 'normal' way of thinking and never allowed yourself to think of anything new.
@FollowingHim love the greenhouse idea. Maybe combine that with a buried dome home with large glass expanses to south (north in your hemisphere) and we are in business. Greenhouse adds fresh garden year around and humidity. Buried dome modulates temp. .. great coexistence. Greenhouse, particularly with a nice aquaponics system offers running water sounds, fresh fish and veges as well as the benefit of a courtyard.
One of my ideas is an old time western town, separate buildings cheek-to-jowel with a covered porch/boardwalk out front.
Supplies kept in the General Store
Meals in the Restaurant/Lunchhall/Cafe with a commercial style kitchen.
Rec area in the Saloon, although in some families that may be the actual adult beverage area.
Then shotgun houses down the line for individual apartments.
My mancave would be the bank.
Wives could be Seamstress Shop, Milner, etc.
A really outdoor oriented wife might want Feed and Seed, Gunsmith, etc. I’m not sure that anyone would want the Stable, but maybe Tackroom.
Add another wife, slap on another building on the end.
Even extended family could be incorporated with everyone having closeness and privacy at the same time.
Bunkhouse for guests and a hotel if you get really fancy.
Church doubles as school, of course. Until you get big enough.
Big enough family, build on both sides of the street.
Love greenhouses as house attachments. For you northerners, check this out. But I don't think its really a good idea south of the 35th parallel.
I also love shipping container building. But the financial numbers don't usually pan out compared to building straight. It's more of a novelty thing.
Here is a new idea. Across much of rural America there are empty school buildings, the result of school consolidation and the habit of some areas to build new rather than renovate their old early 20th schools. Lots and lots and lots of space and they can often be had cheap. Well, if you can figure out how to make a living out in the sticks; in more prosperous areas they usually get converted into assisted living or apartments.
Which brings up another idea. It has been common lately to build trendy apartment/studio complexes in old industrial warehouses. But this is usually limited to locations that are very close to a lot of jobs and (often) very pretty vistas. That leaves a lot of places out of the running for such development; and there are enough of these all across the rust belt they might be easier to get a hold of than an old school.
Old school... great idea. I know someone who secured a very nice old school and large surrounding property for about $2 a square foot. They have added a bit of money to upgrade, but are still sub $6/sq/ft for about 40,000 sq/ft. In their case, they made it an education and ministry center. Beautiful hardwood gymn. Cafeteria... Very nice. Never thought a as a huge family or multifamily dwelling,..
It depends how you do it. Cycling air at slow speeds through buried ductwork (I forget the proper name) can employ the thermal mass of the ground beneath as a huge heating/ cooling battery with very low electrical expenditure.
