upcycled 747 wing house

The roof of this Malibu estate is made from the wing of a 747.

The house had to be registered with the Federal Aviation Authority lest pilots report a downed plane! I wonder though, if just the right amount of wind charging up the Malibu Canyon hills would make the entire front structure take off!

The house was designed by Studio of Environmental Architecture, who have this to say about the concept:

The scale of a 747 aircraft is enormous - over 230 feet long, 195 feet wide and 63 feet tall with over 17,000 cubic feet of cargo area alone and represents a tremendous amount of material for a very economical price of less than $50,000 dollars. In researching aircrafts we began to realize that there are hundreds of airplanes that have been retired to sit in the deserts of California and are sold at the price of their principal raw material, aluminum. As we analyzed the cost, it seemed to make more sense to acquire an entire airplane and to use as many of the components as possible, like the Native American Indians used every part of the buffalo. Therefore, the property is to consist of several structures all made with components and pieces of a Boeing 747-200 aircraft.