Upside Down House In Sabah

• NeverSayGoodBye

  11 Apr 12, 22:43

  A Sabahan has forked out half a million ringgit to build Malaysia’s first upside down house to send out an environmental message.

  Alexander Yee said the unusual structure at Kampung Bantayan-Telibong, about 40km from the city, was worth every sen.

  “If we keep exploiting our natural resources at the rate we are going, sooner or later we will find our world upside down,” said Yee, who owns a construction firm besides operating a tourist lodge in the wildlife-rich Kinabatangan district in Sabah’s east coast.

  

  Yee pointed out that the 140sq m house with fully equipped interior including living room, bathroom, dining room, bedrooms and kitchen also contained unique Sabah features.

  He said everything had been placed upside down including the fridge, stove and rice cooker in the kitchen as well as a functioning old sewing machine.

  He said the upside down house took nearly six months to build – it involved reinforcing the roof, walls and the floor from where the interior furnishings were suspended.

  Yee said visitors would be given a guided tour of the upside down house.

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Apr 12, 09:33

  

   

  good luck to him becoz ... ... ...

   

  

• fudgester

  12 Apr 12, 11:57

  How, pray tell, does an upside-down house make me want to save the environment?

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Apr 12, 12:51

  infact, the money spend could be use to do other meaningful stuff...

   

  dun tell me making a upside down house dun use electricity, do not generate greenhouse gases etc etc...

• TehJarVu

  12 Apr 12, 12:58

  bat man's house

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Apr 12, 13:00

  

  I didn't think of that... hokay, tat's a good one

  

• StriveOn

  12 Apr 12, 13:11

  He owns a construction firm, operates a tourist lodge....

  So this is just another gimmick to draw in revenue for him.

  But he needs a theme,

  Save the environment is a good theme...

  but no connection with his upside down project.

• alize

  12 Apr 12, 20:34

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  How, pray tell, does an upside-down house make me want to save the environment?

  He's making a point of China's abuse of the environment.

• fudgester

  12 Apr 12, 20:54

  Originally posted by alize:

  He's making a point of China's abuse of the environment.

  How, pray tell, does this upside-down house make me specifically think of China's abuse of the environment?

  

• charlize

  12 Apr 12, 20:59

  He wasted all the raw materials building this house which nobody would want to live in due to the inconvenience and claims people are exploiting natural resources ?

   

  Ok.

• mancha

  12 Apr 12, 21:07

  He also missed his own point.

  He should say the house is orientated correctly.

  Its the world that is upside-down.

• kenn3th

  12 Apr 12, 21:24

   so, if you are from Australia, will it be the right side up?

• mancha

  12 Apr 12, 21:43

  The map makers default is the North Pole up orientation, but it how to know where is up in the universe.

  

• NeverSayGoodBye

  12 Apr 12, 22:52

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  How, pray tell, does an upside-down house make me want to save the environment?

  
  .....look at the big picture, he is using the house to symbolise what will happen to the world if de-forestation is overdone. Ozone layers, global warming is affected.

• NeverSayGoodBye

  12 Apr 12, 22:54

  Originally posted by StriveOn:

  He owns a construction firm, operates a tourist lodge....

  So this is just another gimmick to draw in revenue for him.

  But he needs a theme,

  Save the environment is a good theme...

  but no connection with his upside down project.

  
  You're right in the revenue part, he charges a fees for visitors;

  The entrance fee is RM18 for adults and RM5 for children up to 12 years’ old.

• fudgester

  13 Apr 12, 08:22

  Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:

  
  .....look at the big picture, he is using the house to symbolise what will happen to the world if de-forestation is overdone. Ozone layers, global warming is affected.

  I am looking at the big picture.....

  ..... and all I see are trees being cut down to build this house, CFCs in the fridge and aircon depleting the ozone layer, and construction vehicles used in the building of this house contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

  This house is a gimmick, nothing more. He could have marketed it as 'Malaysia's First Fully-Functional Upside-Down House!' and no one would deride it.

  Instead, here I am, poking fun at this piece of idiotic marketing.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  13 Apr 12, 09:11

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  I am looking at the big picture.....

  ..... and all I see are trees being cut down to build this house, CFCs in the fridge and aircon depleting the ozone layer, and construction vehicles used in the building of this house contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

  This house is a gimmick, nothing more. He could have marketed it as 'Malaysia's First Fully-Functional Upside-Down House!' and no one would deride it.

  Instead, here I am, poking fun at this piece of idiotic marketing.

  
  I have to agree... this is exactly my point... the resource he wasted on this upside down house is more then the awareness it generated... meaning the cost outweigh the benefit...
• fudgester

  13 Apr 12, 09:28

  Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

  
  I have to agree... this is exactly my point... the resource he wasted on this upside down house is more then the awareness it generated... meaning the cost outweigh the benefit...

  If he had seriously wanted to promote environmental awareness, he should have just set up an exhibition center to that effect.

  The exhibition center could have held exhibits like deforestation in Malaysia, the effects of car ownership on air pollution in KL and things like that.

  All this would have cost far less and better achieve its goal to promote environmental awareness.

  Heck if he really wanted to pull off the environmental awareness message properly, the house would be filled with the exhibits that I just talked about previously. 

  At the end of the day, this upside-down house is just a dumb money-making gimmick for him, nothing more. His environmental marketing strategy is a textbook example of how NOT to market a product or service.

• βέτά

  13 Apr 12, 11:27

   

  Not going to be pretty when they take a dump in the toilet.

   

   

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  13 Apr 12, 11:31

  Originally posted by βέτά:

   

  Not going to be pretty when they take a dump in the toilet.

   

   

  
  unlike greenhouse effects, shyt do not travel upwards so end up, someone shyt on ur ceiling...
• FunGuyWorkaholic

  13 Apr 12, 12:06

  he just want to make money lah... if he really wants to save the environment, why jeopardise the trust by profitting from the whole thing?

   

• NeverSayGoodBye

  13 Apr 12, 22:08

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  I am looking at the big picture.....

  ..... and all I see are trees being cut down to build this house, CFCs in the fridge and aircon depleting the ozone layer, and construction vehicles used in the building of this house contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

  This house is a gimmick, nothing more. He could have marketed it as 'Malaysia's First Fully-Functional Upside-Down House!' and no one would deride it.

  Instead, here I am, poking fun at this piece of idiotic marketing.

  
  Anyway, there'll be supporters and detracters for this house. Whether it is a money making or attention seeking project, credit should be given to him for putting his thought into action. No body is force to pay to visit the house. This guy is a concern individual, he is not an enviromentalist. He just wanna sent a simple message that's all.

  Cutting down of trees are happening in every countries, even in singapore. The main worrying thing is the illegal downing of treess in the third world countries.

• NeverSayGoodBye

  13 Apr 12, 22:11

  Originally posted by FunGuyWorkaholic:

  he just want to make money lah... if he really wants to save the environment, why jeopardise the trust by profitting from the whole thing?

   

  
  .....hope the money he collected he use it to plant more trees

• charlize

  14 Apr 12, 08:37

  Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:

  
  .....hope the money he collected he use it to plant more trees

  Maybe he will use the money to build a sideways house or a house with no rooftop or a house within another house. 

• NeverSayGoodBye

  15 Apr 12, 22:32

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Maybe he will use the money to build a sideways house or a house with no rooftop or a house within another house. 

  
  .....sideway house? Can"t imagine how it looks like even I tried very hard to