Cliff Dwellings – Austin Bunton Designs

These are the modern and luxurious versions of what the Anasazi left behind.

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Table of Contents:

Orienting
Introduction
Dimensions & Layout
Population Over Time
“Burning Man” Super-Raves
Overall & Layout (Images Begin)
Appearance
2020/+ Updates: Interiors
2022 Update: Scale-model in Minecraft
2023 September/+: Wall-art

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Orienting:

There are three massive cliff-dwelling (CD) complexes built into three separate cliffs in one quadrant of our city:

CD1 is part of the far-side slope of Inisfree’s central mountain, and is predominantly used by civilians.
CD2 is halfway up one side of Inisfree’s main canyon, and is predominantly used by our military.
CD3 is on another of that main canyon’s cliffs; it is right on the other side of the Side Canyon.

* However, civilian guests of military residents of CD2 sometimes stay with them to make traveling up Dragon’s-back Ridge (to watch the war games on the other side) a simpler and easier process

Millions of residents and guests now live in both CD1 and CD2, with CD3 starting to be populated, as well.

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Introduction:

Inspired by the Anasazi ruins, this Inisfreean neighborhood is for those who enjoy living in high-rises and skyscrapers, but also want to be close to Mother Nature and a lot of greenery; vegetation. This cliff-dwelling is actually the first of the three separate cliff-dwelling neighborhood constructs in Inisfree now, and is referred to as CD1; Cliff Dwelling (complex) 1.

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Dimensions & Layout:

This neighborhood is a cliff whose lateral curve is about 2.5 miles long. The cliff’s height ranges, along this curve, from one vertical mile to three quarters of one. The residential buildings built into this cliff extend back into the cliff one quarter of a mile. The result is that there is roughly 80,498,880,000 square feet of living space in this neighborhood.
[(5,280′ x 2.5) x [(5,280′ + 3,960′)/2] x (5,280′ x .25)] = (13,200′ x 4,620′ x 1,320′)

With an average number of 462 floors at any given section along those 2.5 miles, that translates to about 174,240,000 square feet of floor-space per story in this construct. Most apartments have about 400 square feet of floor-space, and can house four people comfortably, so that means there is room in this neighborhood for 435,600 apartments; enough room to house 1,742,400 human-sized people comfortably. Naturally, there are also mansion-sized dwellings built into this 2.5-miles-long construct, and since most mansions have fewer than 30,000 square feet of floor-space, even if all residences in this construct were mansions of comparable size, there would still be enough room for 5,808 of these mansions.

The 2nd of Inisfree’s three cliff-dwelling-based neighborhoods (called CD2) is across the canyon, built into the one of the cliff faces of the city’s lower of two desert plateaus. Half a mile laterally, half a mile tall, and going into the cliff one quarter of a mile, its comfortable population limit is calculated as follows:
[(5,280′ x .5)^2 x (5,280′ x .25)] = (6,969,600 x 1,320) = 9,199,872,000 square feet of floor-space
Dispersed evenly over this construct’s 264 floors, that translates to 34,848,000 square feet of floor-space per floor; enough for 87,120 apartments (348,480 human-sized people) or 1,161 mansions. So, together with CD1, the cliff-dwellings of Inisfree can comfortably house up to 2,090,880 human-sized people.

The 3rd of Inisfree’s cliff-dwellings (called CD3) is along the Disc Pond side of the lower desert plateau.
2,574′ wide x 726′ deep x 150 stories (1,500′) = 2,803,086,000 square feet of floor-space

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Population Over Time:

Roughly 100 more people made this neighborhood their home (or at least their 2nd/vacation home) every year from 2013 to 23000 A.D..

2013: the first ~100 guests or residents here
2022: ~1,000 living in this neighborhood this year
~23000 A.D. and beyond: ~2,100,000 at capacity

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“Burning Man” Super-Raves:

Inisfree’s own spin on The Burning Man (a desert-rave festival) takes place in and on the lip of these canyon-situated, Anasazi-styled, luxury apartment condos and overhangs. Although nightly raves only occur in clubs like Logan’s Apartment and the basement-super-dome of The Auz-dome, raves here are just as epic when they do occur, and they always include the red-, green-, and blue-skinned desert canyon inhabitants indigenous only to this particular area of Creation and the FOB. See the FOB Calendar online on the FOB-Net for details on the next upcoming canyon raves (a.k.a. outdoor raves).

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Overall & Layout:

The image on the right of this album is a map which shows how ~100,000 apartments and other residences in these cliff-dwelling areas house millions of people. Like all residences in this super-city (Inisfree), all of them are fully soundproofed, allowing each one to have epic parties at any time, day or night, without bothering a single person outside. Come check out this Anasazi architecture taken to the next level.

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Appearance: