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Time-Lapse House Building Video?

Started Mar 21, 2019 | Questions
ThePlanCollection New Member • Posts: 3
Time-Lapse House Building Video?

Hi,

This might be a long shot but I'm wondering if anyone has ever filmed a house being built using time-lapse photo/video? I am looking for resources to use on our website similar to the video on the bottom of this page (https://www.theplancollection.com/ranch-house-plans) but with real photos/video and from the ground up. It would be ideal if the house were not custom but actually built from 'house plans.'  Thank you.

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drynn Senior Member • Posts: 1,130
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOY3gVV_KRE

According to the notes, this was done over a six month period.

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drynn Senior Member • Posts: 1,130
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4X1z-SBjM

This one is brown-field to housing estate in a little over one year. There's plenty on YT.

OP ThePlanCollection New Member • Posts: 3
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?

Great, thank you Drynn.

Holger Bargen Veteran Member • Posts: 4,906
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?
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ThePlanCollection wrote:

Hi,

This might be a long shot but I'm wondering if anyone has ever filmed a house being built using time-lapse photo/video? I am looking for resources to use on our website similar to the video on the bottom of this page (https://www.theplancollection.com/ranch-house-plans) but with real photos/video and from the ground up. It would be ideal if the house were not custom but actually built from 'house plans.' Thank you.

That's an interesting thread!

I know that my contribution to this thread does not answer your question - but maybe just for fun it adds a little bit of interesting to you and all of us.

I did a Google search in Germany ("Hausbau Zeitraffer") and found a few nice videos refering to different techniques of building a house. It is interesting to see different concepts from all over the world - here is my part from Germany:

House made of wood with isolation inside, parts prepared at the carpeters factory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzUUtxZ4GY

Here similar concept with larger parts and building within one day until state of end of preliminar building works (excluding cellar or floor plate):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwDwfnGqM28

House made of stones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlnUVxqAzDU

another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdDKWIwBKg

Best regards

Holger

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OP ThePlanCollection New Member • Posts: 3
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?

Thank you Holger, these are definitely fascinating videos!

Jan Steinman
Jan Steinman Senior Member • Posts: 1,015
Re: Time-Lapse House Building Video?

Here's one I did over the course of about a dozen weeks. It is not conventional construction, though — it's "cob," clay and straw — and I started having battery problems toward the end

Done with an Olympus E-3 and Zuiko Digital 12-60mm ƒ/2.8-3.5.

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