Construction of Full-Sized LEGO House Planned

Posted by John Farrier in Architecture on July 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm


James May of the British television show Top Gear is planning to build a full-sized house out of LEGOs:

On Friday, more than three million Lego bricks were delivered to the vineyard in preparation for the task.

Denbies marketing and business development manager, Jeanette Simpson, said: “The millions of bricks came all the way from the Czech Republic. The house will be life-size with a staircase, toilet and shower.”

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13 comments to "Construction of Full-Sized LEGO House Planned"

  1. Kalel
    July 26th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    A Lego house seems rather piecemeal.

  2. KIT CLOUD
    July 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I've been wanting to do that since I was seven years old.

  3. catsvillage
    July 26th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    weirdly interesting

  4. Vonskippy
    July 26th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Seems very unlikely. Since Mythbusters needed 5 million plus just to make a ball, it's unlikely they'll be able to make walls thick enough to support a two story house - unless they cheat.

  5. john1432
    July 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    I'd love to see the follow up article. Mythbusters only needed one million blocks for their ball, it was the original viral video that claimed to have used five million. Still, I bet they end up scrapping their plan and doing a one story house.

  6. Josh
    July 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    That is going to be one tiny house for just 3 million bricks.

  7. Nicholas Dollak
    July 26th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    "... staircase, toilet and shower."

    Ow! I'm getting pelted by tiny clear bricks! And I'm not getting any cleaner!

  8. Johnny Cat
    July 26th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    I never understood the appeal of LEGO. To me it always seemed a mess that I would have to clean up, so I always opted for board games. yes, even as young as 4.

  9. Foreigner1
    July 27th, 2009 at 5:57 am

    Yeah well if you take Mythbusters as the measure for truthfinding...
    And so what if they need 5 million or 5 billion? The fact that it will be done and that Captain Slow will do it is amazing enough.

    But How will they make the walls and floors? Will they only use the stones as cladding and decoration while they make the loadbaring construction of steel and wood? Or do they make the whole thing out of those tiny bricks, double walls, I-beams and all? That makes a load of difference in the number of stones needed. And the glue they need...

  10. Christophe
    July 27th, 2009 at 6:03 am

    I wonder if it would be a good insulation material.

  11. tigergal39
    July 27th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    I sure wouldn't want to be the one to clean the lego toilet!

  12. ...
    July 27th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    I assume there will be a father there to perpetually scream about having "stepped on your dammed legos".

  13. Scooter
    July 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I bet the structure would be quite sound if they glue it together and make the walls thick.


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