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That is what the heir to the Southern California Mercedes Dealership decided to do. Take an old 747 and convert it into her house overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Francie Rehwald wanted her mountainside house to be environmentally friendly and to be “feminine,” to have curves. “I’m a gal,” says the 60-year-old retiree.

Her architect had an idea: Buy a junked 747 and cut it apart. Turn the wings into a roof, the nose into a meditation temple. Use the remaining scrap to build six more buildings, including a barn for rare animals. He made a sketch.

“When I showed it to her in the office, she just started screaming,” recalls the architect, David Hertz of Santa Monica. Ms. Rehwald, whose passions include yoga, organic gardening, meditation, folk art and the Cuban cocktails called mojitos, loved the adventurousness of the design, the feminine shapes and especially the environmental aspect.

“It’s 100% post-consumer waste,” she says. “Isn’t that the coolest?”

As  they are going to be using the whole plane for out buildings, the FAA had a special request.

He says the eight buildings will be scattered across the terraced hillside as if it were a “crash site.” As it happens, the site lies under a jet flight path into Los Angeles International Airport. That concerns the Federal Aviation Administration, which has asked Mr. Hertz to paint special numbers on the wing pieces to alert pilots that Ms. Rehwald’s retreat is not a crashed jumbo jet.

via The  RealEstateJournal.com

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