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09-01-2010, 01:01 PM
Aug 31st 2010 By Michael B. Dougherty
Artist Builds Backyard Survival Shelter, Homemade Shotgun Robot
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Artist Chad Person wasn't about to sit idly by and wait for the coming robot-zombie apocalypse, so he dug up his Albuquerque, N.M., backyard and built himself a custom survival shelter.
Dubbed RECESS (Resource Exhaustion Crisis Evacuation Safety Shelter), Person's project isn't some wonky, conceptual-art stunt, but a genuine reaction to these uncertain times, just like the growing Prepper Movement.
"The short answer is fear. Just purely fear," says Person when Asylum asked him why he spends his weekends designing bulletproof doors. Person had recently achieved the adult trifecta of wife-baby-house and found his protective instincts kicking into high gear -- so he decided to replace the pool with something a bit more useful.
"After a little while of careful thought, it really made logical sense to turn it into a bunker where I could store water and resources and food and weapons," says Person.
Keep reading to get an underground tour and learn how to make your own robot shotgun sentry.
Construction
The first step for Person was to borrow designs from Army and FEMA field manuals, consult trade professionals and, in some cases, improvise from movies.
With no formal background in construction, Person wheeled in 20 yards of cement by hand to pour the bunker's 6-inch-thick, concrete rebar roof. With the addition of some creative landscaping, the shelter completely disappeared from sight.
Of course, a shelter is only as good as its front door, and Person went to great lengths to make sure you don't want to knock on his. Before you even reach it, you must slide through a hatch-like opening and into an antechamber specifically designed to discourage intruders from proceeding any further. Weighing 300 lbs., the steel door is reinforced with ballistics foam and angled iron, which is capable of withstanding rounds from an AR-15 at close range.
More at the link! This is awesome! If all artists did stuff like this, people would like them better.
Asylum (http://www.asylum.com/2010/08/31/survival-shelter-chad-person/)
Artist Builds Backyard Survival Shelter, Homemade Shotgun Robot
http://i56.tinypic.com/2u60ggo.jpg
Artist Chad Person wasn't about to sit idly by and wait for the coming robot-zombie apocalypse, so he dug up his Albuquerque, N.M., backyard and built himself a custom survival shelter.
Dubbed RECESS (Resource Exhaustion Crisis Evacuation Safety Shelter), Person's project isn't some wonky, conceptual-art stunt, but a genuine reaction to these uncertain times, just like the growing Prepper Movement.
"The short answer is fear. Just purely fear," says Person when Asylum asked him why he spends his weekends designing bulletproof doors. Person had recently achieved the adult trifecta of wife-baby-house and found his protective instincts kicking into high gear -- so he decided to replace the pool with something a bit more useful.
"After a little while of careful thought, it really made logical sense to turn it into a bunker where I could store water and resources and food and weapons," says Person.
Keep reading to get an underground tour and learn how to make your own robot shotgun sentry.
Construction
The first step for Person was to borrow designs from Army and FEMA field manuals, consult trade professionals and, in some cases, improvise from movies.
With no formal background in construction, Person wheeled in 20 yards of cement by hand to pour the bunker's 6-inch-thick, concrete rebar roof. With the addition of some creative landscaping, the shelter completely disappeared from sight.
Of course, a shelter is only as good as its front door, and Person went to great lengths to make sure you don't want to knock on his. Before you even reach it, you must slide through a hatch-like opening and into an antechamber specifically designed to discourage intruders from proceeding any further. Weighing 300 lbs., the steel door is reinforced with ballistics foam and angled iron, which is capable of withstanding rounds from an AR-15 at close range.
More at the link! This is awesome! If all artists did stuff like this, people would like them better.
Asylum (http://www.asylum.com/2010/08/31/survival-shelter-chad-person/)