A picture of an apparently floating barn has recently been making the rounds.
According to whoever posted it on
panoramio.com, the barn is located in Ukraine, 1 km from Krasnosilka. However, the same person also titled the picture "kin-dza-dza," which is the title of a
Russian science-fiction movie. I don't know if that's supposed to mean that the picture looks like something out of a science-fiction movie, or if it's fake.
I'm inclined to think that the building is real, and that the image wasn't photoshopped. I think that the steel beams at the back of the building could support the entire structure. Here's another image of the building, from a different angle.
Comments
for an example in Appalachia see
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgraham54/228251518/
Another photo (also inconsistent with the two above) is available here:
I believe the building had four pairs of support trusses - one pair at each end and a pair at each one-third of the length. Some of these might have been physically removed, but others have I believe been 'shopped out.
I've seen it a couple of places now and now I finnished my own version of the "Impossible barn"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasrasmussen/3320246001/
(my one is fake and I made it in max 😛)
Love it.
I am still unsure if it is real or not.
Nice to know that it is infact real 😛
Can you post your picture or link to it please?
- Jonas
I guess someone removed parts of it and left it like this - if not done in Photoshop to make us all wonder 😊
2) There is no way in hell that structure would hold, unless it would be minuscule and not a real barn. You would need an extremely rigid framework both along the top and the bottom. The metal base alone
3) It doesn't even make sense.
Why would someone design something like this when you could easily make it safer? It would be trivial to add a second concrete base to the 2nd or third inverted cone thingies.
Structurally, you don't want things to be hanging from a thread. The conic shape that ties it to the concrete is stupid. It should follow the "strength lines" - projecting from the concrete forwards, to look more like an arch. Also, you should have a compression-absorbing beam between the tips of the inverted cones so as to prevent it from bending at that joint.
Even if you wanted to build something this way, the weight distribution is all wrong. You should lay as much weight as possible next to the concrete base, and you could even make it lean backwards a bit to balance gravity's pull at the tip, which makes the structure tend to rotate around its fixation point.
Again, this would need strong beams or, even better, suspension cables like you have in bridges, to absorb the stretching.
Sorry for my bad English :(
But my opinion is that it probably was used as one of those silos that used to load seeds/salt/grain/sand into railroad cars or 18 wheel trucks since there is a worn path at the bottom and the structure does have the conical form to do that .....
But then again ...I might be wrong
Of course a lot of structural work would have to go on to make the building look implausible, but plausible at the same time, but I'm sure it's possible, stranger things have happened, and we might be looking at a real life example in these pictures. Maybe I should pitch this to the Scotish tourist board, could make a floating croft in the Western Isles or something? Could put in a hydraulic lift for the animals to come in for shearing etc!