My interpretation of a Batcave has always been a literal cave. I think the fact that it is a natural space, formed out of the earth and possibly millions of years old, gives it a sense of peace and security. Combined with the tech and peak genius of Bruce Wayne (who should represent the best of humanity without powers) the Batcave is the perfect refuge and fortress in one. Batman is all about preparing for every possible outcome. The Batcave is where that preparation takes place.
I would have happily watched a full hour of a process explanation and deep dive into the designs -- this channel has been such a blessing on my feed, each video is a little gift.
Ditto. I always was impressed with structures as a child, it started with Lincoln logs, then progressed into Legos. My family and I couldn't afford to send me to college for engineering. I'll always want to learn more about it. Almost all of her videos scratch that itch.
Peter Zumthor was born during WW2. The Swiss architect was later involved in a project to build a documentation center on the site of the former Gestapo HQ in Berlin. Zumthor's design for the "Topography of Terror" was a three-story concrete structure intended to research and communicate the atrocities of the Nazi regime. But was ultimately unfinished and abandoned by the German govt in the early 2000's
I want that sauna/cold plunge/fire pit sooo bad! That whole design is phenomenal! I wouldn't be surprised if you get called in to build a set for the next batman movie
1) nananananana BATCAVE! 2) Any more examples of sacrificial framework? :) 3) While I appreciate the concepts of the cave in your presentation, and I feel that the textures of the inside really escape my criticism... the outside is a brutalist block. I know this is meant for fun, so I am not really wanting to dwell on this, but instead I want to talk about 4) Rammed earth design and it's use could be something to use for something like this? I'm curious as to how or if it could be used with something like sacrificial framing.
Hi DamiLee, I love your videos. This is my first time commenting. While watching your video I had a couple ideas. Maybe you'll find them interesting: If you want to make another similar design using different building materials I was thinking that you could try using clay/dirt from the surrounding earth that you could put into brick/block molds then use hay to cure all the blocks by setting it on fire on the inside of the structure? I've seen videos of clay domes being made in a similar way. Also dirt/earth is free and hay/dried grass is easy to come by in some places. Might make for a neat way to build Bat Caves with minimal financial expenses for people who are motivated to build it on their own. Have a good day, Karl
Awesome concept! Nice cave to be in. But what about cave to LIVE in? Something like a bunker, with water and air filtration. This cave needs an underground bunker with cozy tight spaces - this would be nice addition and a contrast to big open spaces. And this "bunker" should be near supply tunnel to have another way out in case.
If I could have a Batcave, it would be like the one from the 1960s TV show. A big nuclear reactor, because why not? Bat consoles all around, Bat-radar, Bat-traffic, Bat-weather, etc.
Very cool for fantasy and movie sets. For a real residential cave, there are aspects about this design that trouble me. The curvature of the walls will require a lot of custom work. Anyone living in a round house knows this is a pain point. The Sauna is going to be a problem. Anyone with a pool in their house knows that humidity is a real problem. That means the design needs to incorporate some methods to reduce the humidity down to an acceptable level. I don't know any building code that would allow for the steps without guard rails or mezzanine levels that just drop off ... but sure, if you ignore those, its a really cool thing.
I am in awe of the video quality and production. This is art in the making. Great job to your teams! Could you explore the use of windcatchers, which were popular in ancient Asia?
Single-handedly the most honest video title in TH-cam history and a choice so blatantly obvious i'm appalled nobody did this before now. You have made youtube an objectively better site.
Hmm. I think we do ourselves a disservice by trying to impose order on a natural setting. If I had a cave that I wanted to improve to either spend time at or straight-up live in, I wouldn't give up the natural feeling of the cave in place of something more normal like a boxy house with straight walls and 90° corners. Let's say this cave was around 2500 sqft in area, but ranged in heights from 10' to 30' and the entire thing was on a 5 or 10° angle... For the areas where I need something flat to put furniture or something on, I would make little platforms at various levels along the natural incline of the cave. In little areas where it's a bit more compact, I'd enclose the space with glass walls to create a sense of privacy without actually taking away from the space of the cave itself. Another huge part of being in a cave, especially a natural one, are the sounds. Odds are there's water running somewhere and it'll make tiny little sounds that will be magnified by the space itself. There may even be a little bitty stream or something as the water tries to find the lowest level. I would incorporate all of these things into the design itself. I may even divert the stream so that it crosses through the entire area... maybe between steps between different levels, maybe make a tiny pool for it to trickle into... There's a lot to be done, but if you pave the whole thing in concrete, all you're doing is putting yourself into something like a posh jail cell. You have to maximize the natural feeling and sounds of the cave. It's the mixture of a vast open quietness combined with the tiniest sound of a trickle of water that makes a cave so desirable. It's a question of how to you maximize the natural-ness of the cave while also making it comfortable enough to spend time in. That's the appeal.
[Looks at my own profile pic] Yeah…yeah! Pretty crazy how *so* many people want Bat Caves! This video does bring me back to the idea of Labyrinths, though, and how they share a similar nature of creativity and especially “contemplation.” However, instead of literally descending into a space where darkness can inspire potential, a labyrinth helps inspire creativity by the blank, circular walk that a person undertakes from beginning to end. (The efficiency of space was an intriguing notion, too.) Of course, you gotta find one without a Minotaur or a bitchin’ looking David Bowie walking around inside.
Keep getting ideas for a fantastical city design that I am wanting to do for a game, because I lack the resources or connections to make it an actual project, from making a city as green as possible, energy independent, walkable, people centric, and aesthetic. and now I have to go and rework parts because now I need to consider empty and dark spaces that are purposeful inside and outside of buildings. baying the symbolism of whether or not to orient the city north to south, or east to west, if it should be mostly circular. how ecentric and winding to make the roads, elevate the center of the city or make it dip in the middle, or elevate one side of the city for a reason, or have it be a half moon shape. At this rate I will be done when I'm 50.
That's cool and all, but you're focusing on the aesthetics while ignoring the practical requirements of a Batcave. You're thinking like an architect and not like an engineer. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. It's the architect's job to make sure the space meets the occupant's needs and the "feng shui" works, but then the engineer needs to follow up to make sure it is structurally sound, that the plumbing and the electrical, etc will work You need to be able to drive a car into it with a turntable in the central cave to turn the car around to face the tunnel to drive back out again. And the tunnel exit needs to be level with the ground to connect a driveway to a nearby road. The central Batcave also needs to be under a hill upon which you can build your gothic mansion. It also has to be situated just so you can build an elevator to the Batcave where the upper landing opens into a secret room that can be got to quickly from anywhere in the mansion. All these requirements add a fair bit of complexity to the construction plans for the whole mansion-cave complex.
My “batcave” wouldn’t be a batcave- it would be a flying sanctuary. A place in the sky to remain hidden, to contemplate the sky and cosmos above, to watch and listen to the world below- and to rest within before and after trials and tribulations.
" Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding! "
The Batcave has always been cool, but you can't disregard Superman's Fortress of Solitude (just the part about the giant key only he can use to open the door). I'd love to see the Fortress tackled next.
Finding your channel has been a joy. Thank you for a practical, physical take on sci-fi/geek lore. So I have a request and it would be your largest structure investigation to date. Larry Niven's Ring World. Beyond "simple" structures into the realm of planetary physics. (Will not ask about Dyson spheres). Smaller project? How about space elevators. Thanks
I’m sorry this critique might come across as rude, but you frequently hit a high pitch while talking that kind of hurts my ears. Could you try putting a ceiling on your audio spikes?
Lol. I hear it, too. But I'm okay with it. What bothers me is the very exaggerated enunciation, like she'd pass as a vocalist of pop punk bands (like Blink 182) 😅
Damn it, Dani… Twenty minutes ago I was completely unaware that I wanted a Bat-Cave, but now, not only do I want a Bat-Cave, but I want _this_ Bat-Cave, and until I get it my life will be incomplete yea, even unto the edge of meaninglessness, that is to say, _the Abyss_
I suggested this before, but I think you would get a kick out of looking at the Paranoia tabletop roleplaying game, with its Alpha Complex ruled over by a psychotic super AI. The architectural concepts are insane, IMHO.
Everytime i watch your videos, i feel like i would enjoy watching a serie or a movie or something where you give me facts or information about it, like i feel like WOOOW everytime lol
Definitely need a table tennis setup at the bottom, positioned with the light shaft hitting the surface and the noise of the ping pong ball echoing beautifully off of the rounded walls.
I'd fashion a batcave by just creating a swirling basement entrance and give it one basement window at the farthest side away. One light source in and out. Just remember your surroundings 😅
You get an A++ and perhaps Nobel Prize for Architecture for the design and the architecture of the Bat Cave, but, and it is a big but, also a nice but too, perhaps, you get an F for the video content because of failure to include the iconic or legendary phrase "I'm Batman" in your presentation 😛 Just kidding! Great content as always, Dami!
I'm making a sort of hidden ferocrete area under a deck in my back yard with A wind catcher that goes through the roof and thos reminded me a lit of my sketches before I started digging. I think a lot of these concepts should be utilized in desert dwellings for use of space and reducing heat and cooling costs. As usual thanks for an interesting video!
My batcave would be full of cool gadgets, electronics and batmobiles, and much lighter on pretentious nonsense. The batcave is the ultimate mancave, not some overwrought, self-actualization resort experience. I did like your depiction of the lowest level being a giant wine cellar. Nice touch.
This is a beautiful Idea. I'll show it to my youngest daughter; shes on the fence about being an engineer or a architect; im trying to convince her to try both hehe.
Honestly, that was a fantastic video. I loved it. I hope we get to see more like it. Also, i love that you showed more of the making process for the miniture and used it in the video. I would love to see more of that.
Maybe I have this wrong, but to some extent, I thought the bat cave was the transition space where Bruce Wayne became a different person -- Batman. In your description, you describe a place where a person can become more deeply themselves. Of course, one could say that this is really the same thing, but I'm not sure. To some extent, I think the modern fascination with a bat cave comes from fear and from people getting into a bunker mentality where they can hide from outside threats. Most people fascinated by a bat cave aren't thinking about using it for a changing room in order to go back out; rather, people want a safe space from people. In that sense, the evolution has been socially pessimistic.
Awesome episode again, and I´m not even a fan of super heroes! Btw, in the classic French Sci fi comic book series "Valerian et Laureline" there is this super massive, ever growing space station called Point Central, (introduced in the book "Ambassador of the Shadows" from 1975) where all the civilisations in the galaxy have their own section built on top of each other. It´s like a vast and chaotic mash up of cultures and races. It would be great if you could analyse it, in the brilliant way you always do it. (Also - never mind the Valerian movie by Luc Besson. It is awfull and has very little to do with the comic).
The place is definitely missing a bathroom 😉 But yeah, the batcave makes me think a lot of Colin Furze's secret underground complex. For some reason, the batcave is always best in a brutalist style. I'm really wondering what a postmodern batcave would look like 😁
Darkness has always been a place of sanctuary and peace for me. Sitting in a clearing watching the stars surrounded by life is one of my favorite ways to just exist when i can get away to do it. Just watch the sky for hours. For me light is a force of pain and discomfort. I have a mutation in my eyes that lets in too much blue light so if I don't wear my red lenses my migraines are hellish. In addition where there is light there is often so much more noise in our world. To me the dark is calm and creative and light is harsh and oppressive. I arrange my home to create pockets of light and low light so I can have plants and not need the lights on but can still rest my eyes at home. I'm curious how many of us do little things differently because of our own personal comforts or pains
Well now I know who I should ask to build my Bat Cave. Btw this video alone has probably inspired the next generation of architects. Like Dragon Ball for martial artists 😂
Hmm a Batcave you say...I bought some land a couple of years ago that has part of a mountain on it, maybe I can start digging one myself to put behind the Hobbit-style house I want to build there lol.
I'm just addicted to underground dwellings. Play Dwarf Fortress for a lil bit and you'll soon be digging too deep and breaching aquifers and other hidden fun stuff with the best of them.
I don't think you understand just how little I am interested in a bat cave. Like there are few other things I want less than that. However, I have to admit your version looks pretty slick.
I really enjoy your channel, Demi! With nearly 1.8 million subscribers, you're absolutely crushing it. Kudos to you and your team for the amazing work! BTW you look cute in you new glasses. 😃
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Is this what you expected? 😃
Hands down, the coolest batcave I've ever seen.
My interpretation of a Batcave has always been a literal cave. I think the fact that it is a natural space, formed out of the earth and possibly millions of years old, gives it a sense of peace and security. Combined with the tech and peak genius of Bruce Wayne (who should represent the best of humanity without powers) the Batcave is the perfect refuge and fortress in one. Batman is all about preparing for every possible outcome. The Batcave is where that preparation takes place.
I would have happily watched a full hour of a process explanation and deep dive into the designs -- this channel has been such a blessing on my feed, each video is a little gift.
same
Ditto. I always was impressed with structures as a child, it started with Lincoln logs, then progressed into Legos. My family and I couldn't afford to send me to college for engineering. I'll always want to learn more about it. Almost all of her videos scratch that itch.
The urge for a bat cave is simply an irresistible urge
Most usually settle for a "man cave" and then just call it the bat cave to their homies 🦇 or a "fortress of solitude" for the introverts
Our primordial lizard brain desires cave
My desire for a bat cave was only temporary. You might say it was here today, guano tomorrow.
@@leothelion69 we call it the den over here lol
Real
I just love your energy. Your passion is so infectious!
I’ve just realised this but the walls of the cave kind of look like the walls of the ecologyical testing station in dune
Peter Zumthor was born during WW2. The Swiss architect was later involved in a project to build a documentation center on the site of the former Gestapo HQ in Berlin.
Zumthor's design for the "Topography of Terror" was a three-story concrete structure intended to research and communicate the atrocities of the Nazi regime. But was ultimately unfinished and abandoned by the German govt in the early 2000's
finally a good place to keep my giant penny and robotic T-Rex
Remember your video about the number of bunkers Americans are buying? This design might come in useful
OMG Thank you for this!
Seriously, I never thought I would get such a treat subscribing to a architecture channel but OMG this hit deep.
I want that sauna/cold plunge/fire pit sooo bad! That whole design is phenomenal! I wouldn't be surprised if you get called in to build a set for the next batman movie
That would be so cool!
It reminded me of the sweat lodges some indigenous cultures have. @@DamiLeeArch
Demi video. yay….WTF SHE DESIGNED A BATCAVE. 😱
Do the fortress of solitude next 🦸🏻♂️
DC really did know what we want from our man caves
OK, now I want to see how she'd do that.
1) nananananana BATCAVE!
2) Any more examples of sacrificial framework? :)
3) While I appreciate the concepts of the cave in your presentation, and I feel that the textures of the inside really escape my criticism... the outside is a brutalist block. I know this is meant for fun, so I am not really wanting to dwell on this, but instead I want to talk about
4) Rammed earth design and it's use could be something to use for something like this? I'm curious as to how or if it could be used with something like sacrificial framing.
Hi DamiLee,
I love your videos. This is my first time commenting.
While watching your video I had a couple ideas. Maybe you'll find them interesting:
If you want to make another similar design using different building materials I was thinking that you could try using clay/dirt from the surrounding earth that you could put into brick/block molds then use hay to cure all the blocks by setting it on fire on the inside of the structure?
I've seen videos of clay domes being made in a similar way. Also dirt/earth is free and hay/dried grass is easy to come by in some places.
Might make for a neat way to build Bat Caves with minimal financial expenses for people who are motivated to build it on their own.
Have a good day,
Karl
Awesome concept! Nice cave to be in. But what about cave to LIVE in? Something like a bunker, with water and air filtration. This cave needs an underground bunker with cozy tight spaces - this would be nice addition and a contrast to big open spaces. And this "bunker" should be near supply tunnel to have another way out in case.
Something so important perhaps the most important about a batcave is how easy it is to secretly drive in to it yeah…
If I could have a Batcave, it would be like the one from the 1960s TV show. A big nuclear reactor, because why not? Bat consoles all around, Bat-radar, Bat-traffic, Bat-weather, etc.
Very cool for fantasy and movie sets. For a real residential cave, there are aspects about this design that trouble me. The curvature of the walls will require a lot of custom work. Anyone living in a round house knows this is a pain point. The Sauna is going to be a problem. Anyone with a pool in their house knows that humidity is a real problem. That means the design needs to incorporate some methods to reduce the humidity down to an acceptable level. I don't know any building code that would allow for the steps without guard rails or mezzanine levels that just drop off ... but sure, if you ignore those, its a really cool thing.
Its rare to find individuals with a mind seeming to be greater then my own or greater than what it once was
I like your new glasses.
I am in awe of the video quality and production. This is art in the making. Great job to your teams! Could you explore the use of windcatchers, which were popular in ancient Asia?
Single-handedly the most honest video title in TH-cam history and a choice so blatantly obvious i'm appalled nobody did this before now. You have made youtube an objectively better site.
I can't wait the part 2: "Why everyone needs a Fortress of Solitude (where you can be yourself)".
Hmm. I think we do ourselves a disservice by trying to impose order on a natural setting. If I had a cave that I wanted to improve to either spend time at or straight-up live in, I wouldn't give up the natural feeling of the cave in place of something more normal like a boxy house with straight walls and 90° corners. Let's say this cave was around 2500 sqft in area, but ranged in heights from 10' to 30' and the entire thing was on a 5 or 10° angle... For the areas where I need something flat to put furniture or something on, I would make little platforms at various levels along the natural incline of the cave. In little areas where it's a bit more compact, I'd enclose the space with glass walls to create a sense of privacy without actually taking away from the space of the cave itself. Another huge part of being in a cave, especially a natural one, are the sounds. Odds are there's water running somewhere and it'll make tiny little sounds that will be magnified by the space itself. There may even be a little bitty stream or something as the water tries to find the lowest level. I would incorporate all of these things into the design itself. I may even divert the stream so that it crosses through the entire area... maybe between steps between different levels, maybe make a tiny pool for it to trickle into... There's a lot to be done, but if you pave the whole thing in concrete, all you're doing is putting yourself into something like a posh jail cell. You have to maximize the natural feeling and sounds of the cave. It's the mixture of a vast open quietness combined with the tiniest sound of a trickle of water that makes a cave so desirable.
It's a question of how to you maximize the natural-ness of the cave while also making it comfortable enough to spend time in. That's the appeal.
4:10 I like that idea
7:07 _Atleast someone do their research thank you!_
9:58 I wonder what's the system‽
10:00
10:16
I don't have a Batcave,
but I do have a Batroom.
Where is the part where this can be for everyone?
For anyone wondering about the song used at the credits section of the video, it is called "Always on Duty - Tom Meira Armony Remix"
I would never thought that you would be doing a video on the two things that I love,which is Batman and architecture.Great video Dami.
[Looks at my own profile pic] Yeah…yeah! Pretty crazy how *so* many people want Bat Caves!
This video does bring me back to the idea of Labyrinths, though, and how they share a similar nature of creativity and especially “contemplation.” However, instead of literally descending into a space where darkness can inspire potential, a labyrinth helps inspire creativity by the blank, circular walk that a person undertakes from beginning to end. (The efficiency of space was an intriguing notion, too.)
Of course, you gotta find one without a Minotaur or a bitchin’ looking David Bowie walking around inside.
Keep getting ideas for a fantastical city design that I am wanting to do for a game, because I lack the resources or connections to make it an actual project, from making a city as green as possible, energy independent, walkable, people centric, and aesthetic. and now I have to go and rework parts because now I need to consider empty and dark spaces that are purposeful inside and outside of buildings. baying the symbolism of whether or not to orient the city north to south, or east to west, if it should be mostly circular. how ecentric and winding to make the roads, elevate the center of the city or make it dip in the middle, or elevate one side of the city for a reason, or have it be a half moon shape.
At this rate I will be done when I'm 50.
Every body wants a lab with a giant super computer thats ran by AI and tells you all the answers that have been discovered.
I was born in the dark... you merely adopted it... 😎
Darkness is my Ally 😎😈
The burnt wood looks so good, not sure on the open top without and drains on the bottom level though, concretes not the most absorbant material
That's cool and all, but you're focusing on the aesthetics while ignoring the practical requirements of a Batcave. You're thinking like an architect and not like an engineer. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. It's the architect's job to make sure the space meets the occupant's needs and the "feng shui" works, but then the engineer needs to follow up to make sure it is structurally sound, that the plumbing and the electrical, etc will work You need to be able to drive a car into it with a turntable in the central cave to turn the car around to face the tunnel to drive back out again. And the tunnel exit needs to be level with the ground to connect a driveway to a nearby road. The central Batcave also needs to be under a hill upon which you can build your gothic mansion. It also has to be situated just so you can build an elevator to the Batcave where the upper landing opens into a secret room that can be got to quickly from anywhere in the mansion. All these requirements add a fair bit of complexity to the construction plans for the whole mansion-cave complex.
This channel has sparked the creativity in me which I’ve lost on the way. Thank you so much.
My “batcave” wouldn’t be a batcave- it would be a flying sanctuary.
A place in the sky to remain hidden, to contemplate the sky and cosmos above, to watch and listen to the world below- and to rest within before and after trials and tribulations.
Funny, my first thought was - ask someone from the eastern hemisphere what everyone wants, and it ain't gonna be a batcave 😀. Loved your approach
" Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding! "
Can't find much on sacrificial framework...hope you will have more on this...
Id say a batcave for sure my 1st choice. My 2nd would be dextors laboratory xD
Ok, but where am I supposed to hide the bodies?
Ha ha😂 the way her eyes cut at Alfredo like “I’m seriously tired of your mess”🤣
Dami Lee: Thinks good, talks good, looks good.
The Batcave has always been cool, but you can't disregard Superman's Fortress of Solitude (just the part about the giant key only he can use to open the door). I'd love to see the Fortress tackled next.
Finding your channel has been a joy. Thank you for a practical, physical take on sci-fi/geek lore. So I have a request and it would be your largest structure investigation to date. Larry Niven's Ring World. Beyond "simple" structures into the realm of planetary physics. (Will not ask about Dyson spheres). Smaller project? How about space elevators. Thanks
That one dentist out of 10 probably doesn’t want it
My idea is not a Batcave, but a Jedi Temple. One day, a building of my company will be one of those buildings.
I’m sorry this critique might come across as rude, but you frequently hit a high pitch while talking that kind of hurts my ears. Could you try putting a ceiling on your audio spikes?
But I like your videos, otherwise!
Lol. I hear it, too. But I'm okay with it. What bothers me is the very exaggerated enunciation, like she'd pass as a vocalist of pop punk bands (like Blink 182) 😅
Quick, someone tell Colin Furze!
"We need to reframe darkness as not just absence, but as potential" - DamiLee 2024
Damn it, Dani… Twenty minutes ago I was completely unaware that I wanted a Bat-Cave, but now, not only do I want a Bat-Cave, but I want _this_ Bat-Cave, and until I get it my life will be incomplete yea, even unto the edge of meaninglessness, that is to say, _the Abyss_
Not where I expected this video to go. Much more philosophical than I expected. But totally fun.
Thank you for starting with a Keaton clip! He’s the first and the best (West doesn’t count).
Ideal batcave? A deconsecrated gothic church or a workshop in Kowloon Walled City maybe?
If I ever win the lottery, i'm hiring you to build me a bat cave
I think part of the feeling of safety and seclusion is the fact that it’s hidden, that people don’t know it’s there.
I suggested this before, but I think you would get a kick out of looking at the Paranoia tabletop roleplaying game, with its Alpha Complex ruled over by a psychotic super AI. The architectural concepts are insane, IMHO.
Everytime i watch your videos, i feel like i would enjoy watching a serie or a movie or something where you give me facts or information about it, like i feel like WOOOW everytime lol
The most important part of any batcave is to have enough room somewhere for a giant penny. I don't make the rules.
I really enjoy they way she speaks. She has such a pleasant cadence.
Definitely need a table tennis setup at the bottom, positioned with the light shaft hitting the surface and the noise of the ping pong ball echoing beautifully off of the rounded walls.
I'd fashion a batcave by just creating a swirling basement entrance and give it one basement window at the farthest side away. One light source in and out. Just remember your surroundings 😅
You just created my ideal home!
Forget Batman, I want to live there.
This is a brilliant blend of architecture and installation art!
The batcave is the ultimate fancave.
I thought I wanted a Batcave… the I saw Silo on Apple TV+… and now I want a bunker lol
Your videos keep getting better and better
Dammit, why can't I give these videos more than one like?!?
You get an A++ and perhaps Nobel Prize for Architecture for the design and the architecture of the Bat Cave, but, and it is a big but, also a nice but too, perhaps, you get an F for the video content because of failure to include the iconic or legendary phrase "I'm Batman" in your presentation 😛 Just kidding! Great content as always, Dami!
I'm making a sort of hidden ferocrete area under a deck in my back yard with A wind catcher that goes through the roof and thos reminded me a lit of my sketches before I started digging. I think a lot of these concepts should be utilized in desert dwellings for use of space and reducing heat and cooling costs. As usual thanks for an interesting video!
Batman vs Superman was the best interpretation of the cave I have seen!
My batcave would be full of cool gadgets, electronics and batmobiles, and much lighter on pretentious nonsense. The batcave is the ultimate mancave, not some overwrought, self-actualization resort experience. I did like your depiction of the lowest level being a giant wine cellar. Nice touch.
This is a beautiful Idea. I'll show it to my youngest daughter; shes on the fence about being an engineer or a architect; im trying to convince her to try both hehe.
i love your philosophical thoughts. associating them with archtecture is awesome
I came for the bat cave and I stayed for the philosophical excursion. Your videos are always such a treat and creativtiy boost!
WOW! your videos are getting better and better! Who knew that architecture could be so interesting.
Honestly, that was a fantastic video. I loved it. I hope we get to see more like it. Also, i love that you showed more of the making process for the miniture and used it in the video. I would love to see more of that.
That is a good way to hide a Batcave in in plain sight.
a large hall where i can put papers and sticky notes on the walls and dozens of tables where i can work and lay papers
Maybe I have this wrong, but to some extent, I thought the bat cave was the transition space where Bruce Wayne became a different person -- Batman. In your description, you describe a place where a person can become more deeply themselves. Of course, one could say that this is really the same thing, but I'm not sure. To some extent, I think the modern fascination with a bat cave comes from fear and from people getting into a bunker mentality where they can hide from outside threats. Most people fascinated by a bat cave aren't thinking about using it for a changing room in order to go back out; rather, people want a safe space from people. In that sense, the evolution has been socially pessimistic.
the sewing room or my music room, my get-a-ways
Awesome episode again, and I´m not even a fan of super heroes!
Btw, in the classic French Sci fi comic book series "Valerian et Laureline" there is this super massive, ever growing space station called Point Central, (introduced in the book "Ambassador of the Shadows" from 1975) where all the civilisations in the galaxy have their own section built on top of each other. It´s like a vast and chaotic mash up of cultures and races. It would be great if you could analyse it, in the brilliant way you always do it. (Also - never mind the Valerian movie by Luc Besson. It is awfull and has very little to do with the comic).
The place is definitely missing a bathroom 😉
But yeah, the batcave makes me think a lot of Colin Furze's secret underground complex.
For some reason, the batcave is always best in a brutalist style. I'm really wondering what a postmodern batcave would look like 😁
Darkness has always been a place of sanctuary and peace for me. Sitting in a clearing watching the stars surrounded by life is one of my favorite ways to just exist when i can get away to do it. Just watch the sky for hours. For me light is a force of pain and discomfort. I have a mutation in my eyes that lets in too much blue light so if I don't wear my red lenses my migraines are hellish. In addition where there is light there is often so much more noise in our world. To me the dark is calm and creative and light is harsh and oppressive. I arrange my home to create pockets of light and low light so I can have plants and not need the lights on but can still rest my eyes at home. I'm curious how many of us do little things differently because of our own personal comforts or pains
Well now I know who I should ask to build my Bat Cave. Btw this video alone has probably inspired the next generation of architects. Like Dragon Ball for martial artists 😂
Gonna build this bunker & call it.. "The Mancave"
But, where's the toilet? 🤔
Wherever the pile of Guano happens to fall...
What! no bats!
I enjoyed the thoughtfulness apparent in the video.
Hmm a Batcave you say...I bought some land a couple of years ago that has part of a mountain on it, maybe I can start digging one myself to put behind the Hobbit-style house I want to build there lol.
DamiLee! You and your team continue to amaze me with your content and production! Love! Love! Love!
It was poetic, but nothingness and darkness are not the same.
I'm just addicted to underground dwellings. Play Dwarf Fortress for a lil bit and you'll soon be digging too deep and breaching aquifers and other hidden fun stuff with the best of them.
Still hoping for you to review the Oldest House! It’s from the game Control. The sequel should be out next year so it’s a good time for it!
I don't think you understand just how little I am interested in a bat cave. Like there are few other things I want less than that.
However, I have to admit your version looks pretty slick.
I think they were looking for a secret outpost, not necessary an actual bat cave
Having done a Batcave, please do a Zombie Outbreak sanctuary please
Working late at night in my room feels like a bat cave
I really enjoy your channel, Demi! With nearly 1.8 million subscribers, you're absolutely crushing it. Kudos to you and your team for the amazing work! BTW you look cute in you new glasses. 😃
The design is really neat and interesting. But the explanation is nauseating. I really want to like this channel, but I find it's just not for me.