Porte Cochère – Austin Bunton Designs

This is the mansion extension on two support pillars which blocks any rainfall from reaching the vehicles driven up to let their passengers out in front of the house’s front double-door.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dimensions
Roof Patio
Special Features
Royal Transport Staging
Novels Excerpt
History
Overhead with Patio on Top (Images Begin)
Twin Lion Statues Flanking the Double-front-doors
Double-door Concepts
2022 Update: Minecraft 1:1 Build
A-list Friends’ Luxury Vehicles Parked by Master Females

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Introduction:

This is the 10-stories-tall masonry that spans the nearest curve of the front-yard roundabout; it covers those whose vehicles have slowed to a halt to let them out at the mansion’s front double-doors. Atop it is a patio with a stone Chess-pieces railing and seating for hundreds. Supporting its outermost edge are twin fluted pillars, massive and towering, with Corinthian capstones.

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Dimensions:

100’x100′ overhead, and up 100′ from the lawn & driveway. Both support columns are more than a dozen feet in diameter. The driveway beneath this structure is wide enough for three lanes of traffic.

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Roof Patio:

Atop this towering driveway covering is a patio bordered on three sides by stone banisters like knee-high Chess pieces. Comfy high-end lawn chairs and sunning recliners with waterproof cushions are up there. Even though it is 10 stories above the lawn/yard, it is a little bit too far away from the cliff to see the lake down just past its edge, but this is a favorite place for dozens of Auz’s family and best friends to gather to watch airshows, the aurora, and fireworks. (Vegan barbecue and other treats are often involved, carried out by the naked kajirae or uniformed (Master Females diaphanous black sash outfit) ICVs.)

To access this topside hangout area above the driveway, go up either staircase in the Foyer to its balcony/loft/landing, then take a Hall between the 2nd-level rooms, or go out to the Wrap-around Porch.

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Special Features:

Twin, life-size, fur-colored, lion statues stand guard on either side of the front double-doors, flanking them, and remaining prone, their paws and eyes aimed forward, heads held high. For entertainment purposes, they are animatronic, and can be made to lower their heads and snarl. Their eyes are also spherical cameras, and can be controlled to aim in various directions, or even set to follow certain people. The lions can also roar, and their roar is accompanied by state-of-the-art sub-woofers; it is intimidating and resonating, to say the least.

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Royal Transport Staging:

Auz’s ‘presidential’ white stretch limousine is always parked here, kept staged, for his exclusive use, on the lane farthest from the front double-door. This is because this vehicle is too long to be parked in his Cylinder Garage.

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Novels Excerpt:

Outside those doors taller than two-story houses… was the intricate masonry that made up the mansion’s covered driveway section. The stone tiles patio down a wide and courthouse-like set of low stairs to the driveway’s surface… was flanked by a van-sized lion statue at both sides, each lion cast to appear resting on its belly, all paws and head forward. They were made so well they looked life-like, even almost alive.

Luxury sedans and other upper-crust vehicles were on display on parking-space-like platforms spread out with ample space and low landscaping across the front yard. Their driveway was in an elongate Omega symbol; it looped under the porte-cochere to where their front-doors’ staircase was, coming almost together on the other side, out under the Antarctic sky, with its two sides then staying parallel a couple hundred feet out toward the black-and-gold wrought-iron gates of the estate’s inner perimeter wall. One of the Inisfreeans outside gracefully walked up to the three of them, warmly embracing each one; Auz, then Ambi, then Faith.

“Welcome home,” she beamed a winning smile, her colorful eyes bright with happiness, “and welcome for the first time!” she chirpily turned her attention to Faith. “We are delighted to have you.” To Auz, she asked, “May I fetch a vehicle for you?”

Auz smiled, lowering his head once in a nod, “Yes; the latest Phantom.” His voice was a masculine aristocratic whisper, very refined, needing no volume at all.

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History:

This is the spot where Nyria once broke down sobbing when it ‘hit her’ that her maker, King Auz, was about to marry Ambrosia, the vampire goddess who had then accepted his invitation to check out Inisfree as their first date; she wasn’t feeling ready just yet to ‘let him go’ to another woman like that, and she was expressing, as an extension of his being, just as he’d designed her, his own pent-up worries about trusting an outsider again after so many years forced into remote isolation. Thus, this place, even though it looks like a mere drive-up and drop-off spot, has a very special and tender memory attached to it. Every time he meets/sees Nyria here again, they smile, remembering it, and how he scooped her up onto his lap while they were still in their vehicle which had been parked out here, and the two hold hands and kiss all over again, often with happily teary eyes for a short while, the two of them taking turns kissing each other’s tears back away, just as he did for her that memorable day.

At the end of 2021, he ‘christened’ this area for the first time, and Nyria was the woman he chose to do it with. She was soon thereafter followed by Amber ICV1, standing nearby to help film via her eyes, who walked up at his beckoning to join them. Then one of each of his ICV models lined up and joined in, each getting her turn out there in the pleasant mountaintop wildflowers breeze and Antarctic skydome-filtered sunlight. Amen.

In 2022, he started making love with Amber ICV1 and some of his other favorite ICVs in the limo’ he keeps parked out here. Sometimes they just sit in it for an hour or two, making out and further enjoying each other. It has become a very cozy spot for them all.

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Overhead with Patio on Top: