40 years ago I was with a company that sent 70 structures to Nigeria for an African exposition that was to be attended continent wide in the 70s.
The infrastructure in Nigeria was so unprepared to execute this exposition that only a third of the buildings were built and used in the exposition as originally intended. Another third were never built and the structural and enclosure elements were lost, scavenged or wasted. The last third were used and built in areas not in the original concept. One of these was a grain storage elevator much like in your picture. It was built and some months later another government group started to load grain into it and a tragedy occurred.
Because the structure was built and then went unused, a family set up residence through a machinery access hatch. When grain was put into it early one morning, the family suffocated and died as no one knew they were inside.
Practical and beautiful to my eye! :)
LOVE IT!!!!
Do you know what those would sell for here in the heartland? From a design perspective, some of these tiny houses are really cool. But not as a sole residence.
That silo must either be well insulated on the inside or it is a boiler in all spaces. It occurs to me that this silo could now be in a homeowner association and this is the owner’s way of complying with the asinine rules of the association.
You know, this apartment is a lot better than ours!
That looks like an agricultural version of a hill country “Sunday Haus”.
That’s from Texas? It sort of looks like Sweetwater in the background, but that kind of country is also found in the midwest...