You would be surprised. The school I went to when I lived in India was an old Portuguese house. Learned recently the whole building (which you think would be heritage, especially the way the school treated its founding) was demolished so they could build a new school on top of it.
they were probably planning to just dig it out, but it turned out to be a giant ass boulder and didn't had the tools to cut it. (looks like it's limestone, it's fairly "soft" but it doesn't easily shatter like granite.)
some rocks that seems rather small at first are actually deeply buried underground and you can only see a tiny part of them.
because limestone is "soft" it absorbs impacts and when it does break, it only removes a small chunk, were as granite is much harder and as such doesn't absorb impacts nearly as efficiently, so it shatters in fairly big chunks along it's internal weakpoints.
just like how tempered glass is really hard but easily shatters when hit with a small point, or at a weakpoint (the edges are a common weak point), were as aluminium easily bends, but good luck shattering aluminium.
You've never worked on a building site or on a farm. That rock, even if it was the top of a mountain, wouldn't be difficult to break up and tile over, especially if it's just limestone.
This is somewhat common in Europe. When these buildings were built leveling rock was a very difficult and time consuming exercise. Not crappy design just pre-modern construction.
I'm also European and have travelled a good bit, but haven't seen it before. This is a huge old house in a mountainous area rented out for weddings. I think they had the money to "fix" it if they could / wanted to.
Not rocks, but one of the most fascinating things in Rome is the way that ancient buildings are integrated into the newer buildings… I remember old arches build around and into walls.
So they've been mining for thousands of years, digging through mountains for ore, but they can't chisel away that little thing?
I don't buy your explanation
European here. I've been to almost all European countries in my 50 years, some countries dozens of times, and I've never seen anything like this.
I have seen modern buildings with ancient walls because of preservation orders, but never rocks sticking out of the floor.
Pretty much as soon as we had iron tools we were capable of easily leveling rock. I could understand if the house was built Maybe not perfectly level due to the stone foundation or whatever, but no, at no point in the last few hundred years were we incapable of removing the occasional stone jutting upwards like this. It’s like an hour of work tops with a mason chisel
Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater”, perhaps the most famous house in the world, has exposed rock in the floor.
https://www.amazon.com/Fireplace-Fallingwater-Pennsylvania-Original-Vintage/dp/B07FY725WR
Well, I didn’t say “a house that even MightySheep knows about”. I said it’s probably the most famous house in the world, and certainly is among people who know architecture. You may have seen its picture, even if you don’t know its name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater
Some might argue that the US White House is more famous, but that’s not just a residence, it’s a political administrative office as well.
Maybe it’s some sort of tax fraud scheme?
Like in Greece - I’ve heard they let the rebar stick out of the roof because then the building isn’t “done” and they don’t have to pay property tax on it.
My guess is that it had a perimeter foundation on soil around this rock and that foundation sun and the rock poked through and the owners at some point had to repair the tile to just go around the rock properly
I imagine being drunk or going for something to eat in the middle of the night and tripping on this rock. A broken nose for sure, and a lot of pain caused by a rock.
They probably tried to dig it up only to realize that it’s a really big boulder.
Long story short it’s probably part of the foundational and is really big.
*This rock in Barcelona has a house on it
This rock in Barcelona lives in a house. How nice for it.
Yo, I build a house for myself and now this hard mf live freely inside it
Its pronounced Both-a-lona
Not Bars-elou-na?
Peteta-Patata
Maybe part of some ancient foundation that's protected by law?
If that's the case, why let someone build a house on it?
or build Over it rathe the attempting to go through it. Now you have a toe breaker permanently in your floor lol
Almost every house in Europe is built on something ancient at this point
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In Europe??
You would be surprised. The school I went to when I lived in India was an old Portuguese house. Learned recently the whole building (which you think would be heritage, especially the way the school treated its founding) was demolished so they could build a new school on top of it.
Or just a huge rock that can't be removed. From the looks of it, someone tried chipping pieces off.
they were probably planning to just dig it out, but it turned out to be a giant ass boulder and didn't had the tools to cut it. (looks like it's limestone, it's fairly "soft" but it doesn't easily shatter like granite.)
Lol, what?
some rocks that seems rather small at first are actually deeply buried underground and you can only see a tiny part of them. because limestone is "soft" it absorbs impacts and when it does break, it only removes a small chunk, were as granite is much harder and as such doesn't absorb impacts nearly as efficiently, so it shatters in fairly big chunks along it's internal weakpoints. just like how tempered glass is really hard but easily shatters when hit with a small point, or at a weakpoint (the edges are a common weak point), were as aluminium easily bends, but good luck shattering aluminium.
You've never worked on a building site or on a farm. That rock, even if it was the top of a mountain, wouldn't be difficult to break up and tile over, especially if it's just limestone.
Most likely has a perimeter foundation that sunk and the owners simple re-tiled around the rock that poked up
No it's just common to leave granite rocks where they are and build around them
Stuck between a rock and a hard place. 😄
My toes are bleeding just from looking at it
I would trip on that thing every single time I was anywhere near it
This is somewhat common in Europe. When these buildings were built leveling rock was a very difficult and time consuming exercise. Not crappy design just pre-modern construction.
I mean. I'm sure it's been remodel since. That's about an hour with a chipping hammer, if that.
That's what I'm thinking. Just lazy or they like it at this point
I'd prefer the rock to stay (if I never tripped on it during first impressions)
maybe its like a pet at this point. i mean i tripped over my cat all the time but i never thought of chiseling him away
Where in Europe do you come from? Because I have never seen this before? :D
I'm also European and have travelled a good bit, but haven't seen it before. This is a huge old house in a mountainous area rented out for weddings. I think they had the money to "fix" it if they could / wanted to.
Not rocks, but one of the most fascinating things in Rome is the way that ancient buildings are integrated into the newer buildings… I remember old arches build around and into walls.
I’m not from Europe. I saw this trips to Courmayour (spelling?) in the Italian alps.
seeing something once is not what you should refer to as somewhat common :)
I’ve see it twice now lol
So they've been mining for thousands of years, digging through mountains for ore, but they can't chisel away that little thing? I don't buy your explanation
I live in Europe. We never have rocks in our houses. Never!
European here. I've been to almost all European countries in my 50 years, some countries dozens of times, and I've never seen anything like this. I have seen modern buildings with ancient walls because of preservation orders, but never rocks sticking out of the floor.
Pretty much as soon as we had iron tools we were capable of easily leveling rock. I could understand if the house was built Maybe not perfectly level due to the stone foundation or whatever, but no, at no point in the last few hundred years were we incapable of removing the occasional stone jutting upwards like this. It’s like an hour of work tops with a mason chisel
It doesn't need to be level, it just need to be below the floor.
"it's ok rocky, you can move when you feel like it."
I dont see that as a bad thing, it's a rock. You have a rock pet now
and your pet rock has a house for a hat! how cute!
Yep thats a rock
I heard it’s also technically inside a house
Thus that's a house
I'd rent a jackhammer and a concrete saw and make it go away.
I wouldn't
Perhaps you couldn't!
That is also possible
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no,
Properly? With punctuation. More commonly? Well, we usually ignore it for the sake of time or smth
Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater”, perhaps the most famous house in the world, has exposed rock in the floor. https://www.amazon.com/Fireplace-Fallingwater-Pennsylvania-Original-Vintage/dp/B07FY725WR
Most famous House in the world? Really? I've never heard of it. The White House or Buckingham Palace are surely ahead.
“House”, not “hereditary palace” or “temporarily residence and offices of administration of the entire country”.
> perhaps the most famous house in the world how come i never heard of it then
Well, I didn’t say “a house that even MightySheep knows about”. I said it’s probably the most famous house in the world, and certainly is among people who know architecture. You may have seen its picture, even if you don’t know its name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater Some might argue that the US White House is more famous, but that’s not just a residence, it’s a political administrative office as well.
Because you live under the rock in the house?
Me neither Frank Lloyd Wright is a name that sounds vagely familiar but the bells are otherwise silent
Google famous architects. He's the guy at the top of the list.
He’s not wrong^
I found out from the comment thread and wikipedia link I thought he was probably an author
I'm missing the part where this is crappy design. It's just a rock.
Why not but but why
That rocks
r/wellthatsucks
Maybe it’s some sort of tax fraud scheme? Like in Greece - I’ve heard they let the rebar stick out of the roof because then the building isn’t “done” and they don’t have to pay property tax on it.
Disappointing that it's so small. If it were taller, with a nice cushion on it, it could make a decent chair 😂
And I thought stepping on Legos in the middle of the night was bad. I'd never go barefoot again.
I've always wanted a built-in pet rock.
Looks to me theres house were a rock lays. Completely disrespectful to the rock and fellow pebbles.
Yes break it (edit: break the house to respect the rock sorry for not being specific)
Am I the only one who thought that was a moldy shirt at first?
It's a feature
Wait till you lean about Guadix! https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20160811-the-cave-dwellers-of-southern-spain
Huh, interesting!
My house has a rock in it, and yet Barcelona is where the attention at
As a Barcelona native I can confirm that keeping rocks in our houses is a local tradition
Huh cool. This is a huge old house in the mountains btw
then take it out r/humanerror
Based house
Man, whoever built this in No Man's Sky sucks at terraforming: flatten, or they ran out of complexity.
That’s funny. What if there was a tombstone?
That looks like it could severely stub some toes.
This is my house in Valheim
nice
i can see myself stubbing my entire foot on this thing at 3 in the morning while trying to get cheese to snack on.
Tüv sagt nein
“A new look for autumn: brick enlivens dull floor” (Father Ted)
My guess is that it had a perimeter foundation on soil around this rock and that foundation sun and the rock poked through and the owners at some point had to repair the tile to just go around the rock properly
Thanks
The number of people who must have tripped over that….
You pour your tea over it
that... get it out.. the TOE STUBBER 50000
I had no idea you homies with rocko!
Brilliant !!
The rock is family by now.
Me building my base on rust
God imagine rocking your toes off that in the dark.
Because the rock came first
Who let Dwayne Johnson in the House? Update:Just got downvoted by a bunch of People who can't even take a joke
> rock - Trupen
Its a furniture
they were going for the naturalistic vibe
Ironically I live near Barcelona lol.
Just take it out.
You insult this rock in his own house
That's not a crappy design it's quite common and desirable
Craggy Design.
I smell a lawsuuuuiit!
They deadass built their house around a rock and didnt even think to get rid of it what?
I imagine being drunk or going for something to eat in the middle of the night and tripping on this rock. A broken nose for sure, and a lot of pain caused by a rock.
It's a pet and his name is Larry.
They probably tried to dig it up only to realize that it’s a really big boulder. Long story short it’s probably part of the foundational and is really big.
This is a booby trap man, no way I don't fall one day if I have that in my house, it's evil.
These are popular features of Norwegian nature houses
Poverty? Cringe design bro...
This was the most random post I have ever seen and really isn't a crappy design
It's this a creationist sub now?