INVISIBLE Sunken Home Takes FIVE YEARS to Finish | Grand Designs | Channel 4 Lifestyle

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • Did somebody say car lift? This perfectionist quits his job to meticulously finish an ambitious invisible family home when builders make him lose faith in outsourcing the project. But the original schedule implodes and it takes FIVE YEARS to complete. Stream free on All 4
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Комментарии • 79

  • @markclans3284
    @markclans3284 5 месяцев назад +22

    That’s beautiful. Agony but I hope they’re proud. Interior styling is great as well.

  • @flz00
    @flz00 4 месяца назад +28

    I could understand building a house like that in hot, sunny areas, but in the UK?

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll 3 месяца назад +1

      what I was thinking regarding the pool.

  • @ep1981
    @ep1981 Год назад +22

    Intriguing design, but that tacky hot tub lets it down a bit. Still, after five years maybe they deserve a soak...

    • @gregzoller9003
      @gregzoller9003 4 месяца назад +3

      Gotta agree. A tub executed as a natural looking pond would have fit the character much better

    • @tyhuyghebaert5416
      @tyhuyghebaert5416 4 месяца назад

      at some point when your in a 5 year overrun, you just gotta cut a couple corners to get it done

  • @recolletsmanoir
    @recolletsmanoir 3 месяца назад +2

    love their resolve and determination. Good luck to them.

  • @ВалентинаОсипова-е2п

    Какой дизайн 🙂очень красиво.

  • @ArthArmani
    @ArthArmani Год назад +26

    So rain just flow down to your house? i wonder how well those walls will keep after 10 years.

    • @ArthArmani
      @ArthArmani 7 месяцев назад

      @@vaderstar it does, but i don't live in a pit

    • @itorapadas
      @itorapadas 7 месяцев назад

      Engineering figured that out.

    • @Caiyde
      @Caiyde 4 месяца назад +34

      You'll never guess how they solved this - about 6000 years ago, the Mesopotamians invented these things called pipes. It was revolutionary at the time because they could be used to transport water from one place to another! There's been a few minor improvements to the original concept, but the idea is still used today!

    • @JVZBrowser
      @JVZBrowser 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Caiydepipes only work for flowing water my friends. You can see the naked walls touching the soil. The damp in the soil will eat away the walls within a couple of years. This needed a bitumen sealing on the outer shell

    • @StillAliveAndKicking_
      @StillAliveAndKicking_ 4 месяца назад +4

      @@JVZBrowserYou mean just like every house with a concrete foundation has collapsed after a few years because the water ate away the concrete? We still have concrete from roman times built by the romans.

  • @edmund6392
    @edmund6392 Год назад +8

    One word - drainage

  • @mikedl1105
    @mikedl1105 4 месяца назад +2

    I can almost hear the French horn and see the twin suns set

  • @isassetuba
    @isassetuba Год назад +4

    Never give up

  • @wr4tune
    @wr4tune Год назад +5

    Beautiful 🤩

  • @JD-yx1zi
    @JD-yx1zi 16 дней назад

    Modernist monstrosity

  • @adamstevens6299
    @adamstevens6299 Год назад +4

    gorgeous!

  • @MsColetha
    @MsColetha Год назад +4

    It’s a grave with a view?

  • @Bikepacking
    @Bikepacking 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wow

  • @johnbraunschweig
    @johnbraunschweig Месяц назад

    How much?

  • @joyb5525
    @joyb5525 Месяц назад

    Whoa, Amazing. From Ireland

  • @jasonking6892
    @jasonking6892 8 месяцев назад +13

    Expat 🇬🇧 i deisged and built my own house in Colombia 🇨🇴 6 months $35,000 3 story over looks the Mountains no stress
    Are these people Crazy 👎

  • @brucebaker3523
    @brucebaker3523 3 месяца назад +1

    I am amazed by the artistry and craftsmanship of bygone era's and the lack of it today.

    • @eliaschevette
      @eliaschevette 3 месяца назад

      I demolish homes for most of the early 2000s. What you feel is nostalgia. Few people build good homes before the 90s. The ones you see are those few. Building used to be such a collection of guys being guys with no idea on what an structure is. We are building to such a higher level now with proper engineering models and proper checks on the system.

    • @brucebaker3523
      @brucebaker3523 3 месяца назад

      @@eliaschevette You misunderstood, I'm talking about 150 -200 plus years ago. Back when door hinges had artwork cast into them. What is built today is soul-less. As you say technical. Go to Rome and you might grasp what beauty in a building is

    • @frmcf
      @frmcf 3 месяца назад +1

      @@brucebaker3523 150-200 years ago most people in Britain, in Rome and throughout most of the world lived in damp, cramped conditions in simple cottages or urban slums. As the other person tried to point out: the sturdy, beautiful homes that have survived until the present day were the exceptions, not the rule. This is the definition of survivorship bias.

    • @brucebaker3523
      @brucebaker3523 3 месяца назад

      @@frmcf Everything is relative. Mayan temples sacrificed virgins for climate change, today people sacrifice free choice and income for climate change. The world has never been safer or healthier yet people live in constant fear. You can fly to the moon but the common cold is still a medical mystery. Beauty has nothing to do with politics or time. Art is timeless and modern art sucks.

  • @Edward_alex21
    @Edward_alex21 Год назад +7

    I love inventivity and uniqueness but God this makes no sense. I see so many things going wrong with it in a few years.

  • @rwest1818
    @rwest1818 3 месяца назад

    such a shame they can't be full programs

  • @psylinx
    @psylinx 3 месяца назад

    This is not too far off from what I wanted to do. Minus the garage idea.
    George Davis

  • @JohnSmith-rp7bc
    @JohnSmith-rp7bc 3 месяца назад

    One of my favourite episodes

  • @086DEN
    @086DEN 4 месяца назад +13

    I'd like to see where the rain goes 😂

    • @stephencrowther524
      @stephencrowther524 4 месяца назад +2

      Don’t you think they might have thought of that ?😂

    • @Stevedawhoop
      @Stevedawhoop 4 месяца назад

      @@stephencrowther524 they didn't talk about it in the video 😂

  • @isthatujeebus
    @isthatujeebus 3 месяца назад

    Love to see that planting now.

  • @Prasutagucaster
    @Prasutagucaster Год назад +12

    A massive lesson in not what to do in terms of quality, cost and time.

  • @PeacefulCountryLife
    @PeacefulCountryLife 4 месяца назад

    5 years is nothing

  • @nicki8731
    @nicki8731 3 месяца назад

    3:12 very nice view

  • @ImHavingaCoronary
    @ImHavingaCoronary 4 месяца назад +3

    I love Radon gas, too!

  • @samrolfe2563
    @samrolfe2563 4 месяца назад

    Bamboo - lols.

  • @hiufgterde
    @hiufgterde 4 месяца назад +6

    So it's basically a big bathtub that will collect rainwater

  • @Andrew.-.-
    @Andrew.-.- 7 месяцев назад +2

    Like to return in 10 years and see how it looks . Cannot see very good . Very depressing structure . For me of all grand designs has to be what I would call a failure esp on what they spent . Will struggle to sell . BUT credited due to them for carrying on .

  • @ggwalie
    @ggwalie 4 месяца назад +2

    You have to give it to them for their vision and perseverance with the project but it’s not a practical or particularly aesthetically pleasing design in my opinion. They could have built above ground, as normal and boring as it may be, and achieve a similar design which would have reduce labour, cost, time and potential drainage issues as the property ages. Furthermore, in doing so, they could have utilised more of the land and incorporated more light and those picturesque views into the design/aesthetic. Missed opportunity to be unique and creative in a practical way!

  • @davaadoodoo5154
    @davaadoodoo5154 11 месяцев назад

    Amazing !!!

  • @bentleygt3716
    @bentleygt3716 Год назад +2

    looks beautiful. but why underground ??!!!!!.
    why not ground level ??!.

    • @zaneta3880
      @zaneta3880 Год назад +9

      Restricted site. Is in Canterbury conservation area

    • @NathanEllery
      @NathanEllery Год назад

      Fricken planners!! The bane of the free world. They hate humanity.

  • @danieldonaldson8634
    @danieldonaldson8634 3 месяца назад +1

    it’ll be wonderful once they get the second storey on it

  • @drita0712
    @drita0712 5 месяцев назад +13

    Modern houses are tasteless and cold. I do not like them.

    • @burningoceanfloor1560
      @burningoceanfloor1560 3 месяца назад +3

      Evolving includes opening your eyes to what you never saw before, meaning in the present, for you are never done evolving

  • @jo_magpie
    @jo_magpie 3 месяца назад +1

    Karl Pilkington is doing well huh😂

  • @TheDoubleclickk
    @TheDoubleclickk 4 месяца назад +1

    One word: WHY?

  • @cattelgibson5354
    @cattelgibson5354 4 месяца назад

    A wasted view of the landscape

  • @JohnnyNorfolk
    @JohnnyNorfolk 5 месяцев назад

    Building a problem.It must be like living in an office.

  • @eddievega1100
    @eddievega1100 Год назад

    Which episode is this one ? And which season ?

  • @thepretenda
    @thepretenda Год назад

    HORRID!!

  • @y5chu
    @y5chu 5 месяцев назад

    What a stupid idea

  • @thedifferenttraveller5684
    @thedifferenttraveller5684 Год назад +3

    Horriblement moche, excessivement moderne et froide. C'est une maison mais pas un foyer accueillant.

  • @tonymccann1978
    @tonymccann1978 3 месяца назад

    Such mediocrity for so much pain.

  • @echetlos
    @echetlos 4 месяца назад

    Unhealthy living.

  • @tiomoidofangle102
    @tiomoidofangle102 3 месяца назад

    LAME (Look At Me Everybody)

  • @Aprilsraven629
    @Aprilsraven629 4 месяца назад

    Glad they don't have grass fires in the UK or snakes...and rain where does all the water go....would be great to see it today

  • @wollinger
    @wollinger 3 месяца назад

    "subterranean"

  • @reluginbuhl
    @reluginbuhl 4 месяца назад +1

    One more blow to the concept of sustainability. NO ONE needs a house like this. It's a sad commentary on our economic system that makes this kind of thing possible.

  • @wanaan
    @wanaan 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful..but why?
    You could just sink it half way down, and put the excavated earth around the outer wall for the same effect. House in a hill is not much different from house in a hole.

  • @dklabratful
    @dklabratful 4 месяца назад +1

    Invisible? Hardly!

  • @ismaelhussain3625
    @ismaelhussain3625 Год назад +1

    Amazon delivery station Dsp designers you could design an Amazon year

  • @aarondouglas4232
    @aarondouglas4232 Год назад +1

    ew

  • @Lou-bg1xc
    @Lou-bg1xc 4 месяца назад

    Ok, soooooo, it never rains here?
    If yes, is there some type of system to remove water as it pours in.

  • @zolastic
    @zolastic Год назад

    A hot tub. Ugh. Human soup.