The Last Bastion of Steampunk Living

FORTIFYING YOURSELF STEAMPUNK STYLE

 People have been barricading them themselves from  enemies and the elements since time immemorial. Coastal  cliff sides are ideal look out points. Over the millennia  hillside forts have transformed from hidden caves to hurl rocks from - to concealed coastal caches of ammunition and gun emplacements.

With the advent of long rage missiles  and satellite surveillance, the sturdy forts of last  few world wars  had become redundant. Abandoned  and cast away. 

 

Now they are being put to a new purpose on the home front.

Spitbank Fort Portsmouth

 Palmertons's Follies [ named after the  British Prime Minister  of the time]

Built in the 1850s to fend off the French  threat,  these forts  are still standing strong  against the waves and are enjoying  a resurgence as luxury accommodation and private dwellings.

These estuary emplacements excite visions of a  infamous international  villain's lair.

 

 Bull sands fort

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Maunsell Forts: 2nd World War era [ after their designer Guy Maunsell]

 The Maunsell  Forts ran down the river mouths of the Thames and Mersey .

Time has marched on

The interiors of the installations  are ideal back drop for the vintage industrial look.

 Pirates had their own private radio haven broadcasting from these havens in the mid century  '60s

Knock John forts

 The Cold War  in the freezing seas

The US had its own forts for radar facilities that mushroomed   during the cold war of the  50s.  They had that  atompunk appeal for the post apocalypse

Texas Towers  , New Jersey

 

   Now lying as sunken treasure on the sea floor.

 

 

Military  Monuments of the Maginot Line

 

 

  Ouvrage Hackenberg.

After fighting off marauders from mainland Europe  down the centuries, forts down the  Maginot Line  were given a military make over  in the post WW1 period.

St Agnes set into the hillside

  Bunkers  boldly built before  WW2 . 

Beside them   in Belgium

Liege Forts , Belgium







Tunneling down . The French  have always done  decor with a little more style. 

Along the Atlantic Front

 The  Germans put military  emplacements all along the  Atlantic seaboard to keep enemies at bay. It was a decade of  Deco design.

Poland Protections of the Past






Denmark Demarcation
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Now

  & Then

Scandinavian Steampunk minimalism

Ready for a Refit

Do your own Dieselpunk  decor  and steampunk Stylings ; add that Atompunk atmosphere. Raid the recesses of your imagination .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Play in  your own  Private Para Military Paradise

There is Always  Light at the End of the Tunnel.

The Steampunk Urban Landscape : modular homes are the future

   The Well Modulated Community of the Future

Here is a sample of simple forms of Modular Home that will fit into a Future Urban Cityscape or a Post apocalyptic Landscape. 

We can utilize the developments to come in modern times to build homes for a time yet to come. Articles from our past can also be re-used to make modular homes in the future.

 - or even in the here and now

A Modular Home is a beautiful thing in every way. They are constructed from pre fabricated units, easily relocated to any location on land or sea. They  click together & stick together.

  

 they will  adapt to a social utopia - or a dark dystopia

  Escape clamp down

for when the world has been ecologically compromised 

 For a Cleaner Greener Future

 Recycle and re purpose a relic of our agricultural industrial past

Former green house used as a residential dwelling.

 Polygonal forms are simpler and stronger to piece together.

floating island unit

Hexi pods- a  human bee hive 

 A domed structure is more resistant to seismic activity and can be made thermodynamic. All important in an apocalypse.

Dakar desert 1940s

 Prefabricated Modular Homes  from History

 Modular units can be joined to make a bigger house or a simple complex.

adventure with a Venturo 

 There is already a ghost town from the past of these futuristic houses, once touted as the answer to the global housing crisis in the 60s - until  the petroleum based building materials  became to costly with sky rocket oil prices in the early 70s

Wanli Taipei

Keep Yourself Contained

Paint some cogs on and call it steampunk. Ideal for an industrial look. Container can lend themselves to any setting and any look  - from Sci Fi to urban decay. Low rent or luxury bach






Transportable and recycled. Shipping container homes .

 

Easily Transportable.

  Homes to pack up and take out  on the open road

Living in an inflatable bubble - it will take your breath away

Tents are tidy  and they can be tucked away  to transport.

Imagine surfing  the sand ocean  of the desert in a Nomad  tent  existence

Futuro homes from Finland can be flown into any location one can find.

These retrospective Futuro UFO homes are undergoing a resurgence of  re gentrifying

 Could this be the Steampunk Subdi-vision  of the near  future ?