Hello DIY. SP1D3R anon here. Me and some friends decided to build a maze. A labyrinth, if you will. I'm working on it right now. I'll post more pics and answer any questions.
DIY Labyrinth
Hello DIY. SP1D3R anon here. Me and some friends decided to build a maze. A labyrinth, if you will. I'm working on it right now. I'll post more pics and answer any questions.
This is the model for what we are working on today. Wasn't made by me so i can't take credit for the inital design
>. A labyrinth, if you will.
I suppose you could call anything a labyrinth; looks more like a cat tower. Anyway, how does it work as a labyrinth for you.
This is all I'm willing to show (You), but this labyrinth spans a size larger than most convience stores. The "cat tower" is one of the means of access to a slide that goes through multiple floors.
>I suppose you could call anything a labyrinth
With the walls up its hard to convey the space. Funny how quick you are to assume that one photo consititues the entire labyrinth.
what the frick, lamo. This is ridiculous but actually kind of cool, maybe.
What (if any) is the plan for safety/emergency/fire exit if you're letting randos in?
I think he's going to pick up random crackheads and tell them the fastest one to find their way out gets $100.
Record it and put it on YouTube and OP will be turning a profit off ad revenue in two weeks
> fire egress
There is something very similar to what OP is building in my country. A lot of it is kinda makeshift, you crawl through pipes/obstacles, climb ladders, go through hidden doors, go upward on a spiral shaped ‘slide’, etc. It’s pretty dark everywhere, 3 stories high, 400sqm (4000sqft) total.
They just have these arrow shaped lights in all directions, and during a fire alarm all of them except the one pointing to the exit turns off (I suppose, I haven’t been there in a fire), it will probably get flooded with light too and there’s a perimeter corridor with clearly marked fire doors, they tell you where they are in case also you panic while in the maze (tip for OP, people may panic out of nowhere in a maze). And sprinklers ofc. It’s not inherently more dangerous than a regular escape room.
I’m 100% sure it can be done safely, we’ve had big fires with lots of deaths in clubs before so it would have never gotten a permit if it wasn’t completely safe.
If you’re ever in Europe, check it out for some inspiration, it’s called Doloris meta maze in the Netherlands
There was something similar in San Francisco a few years back. Some marketing guy made it for fun and gave it a theme of a secret society initiation. But it turned out that most people actually believed it, and a cult accidentally formed, so the guy had to shut it down.
If this starts a cult tbh I'm in I'd roll with it lets go baby
thank you frendo cum visit when its done I promise we won't add you to the missing persons list:)
this is very cool anon
For example. This is one hallway with multiple paths to choose from. Not all of them are ready yet. A lot loop back on themselves because we havent put all the walls up and drilled holes in the floor yet.
Come on, you didn't actually think this one obstacle was the entire thing right?
Are you a c**t or just a fricking moron
Kek. Not exactly how it was being phrased in my mind but I had similar questions upon reading that anons post.
On the other side of this will be a slide. This is all I can capture in one photo with a .5 zoom
Seems to be a lot of money in steel there to just be fricking around for shits and giggles. Are you planning on opening this to the public and making money off of it somehow?
>inb4 "this isn't diy because its not some cobbled together hobby bullshit"
Most of the steel was donated. A lot of it was repurposed from salvage or other projects. We get a lot of drop material from local steel shops and have good relationships with most of the scrappers and salvage yards. The walls themeslves were the most expensive part because we wanted them to be uniform, but even then we started with what we had for free then bought what matched the existing thickness and size. We work for a larger entity that funds our ideas but we are are the ones who decide what we build amd how its built. Its functional sculpture. People will be charged entry so if that makes this thread not DIY then I guess hop back over in one of the google it for me requests we call threads around here.
You sound like an artist that takes it up the ass from a demon prince.
Ditch the attitude Black person
Eh, maybe I've been lurking and posting here for too long. Took your reply for snark right off the bat when its a fair question to ask considering how obscure this all is. You would be surprised what you can pull off when you know enough people in the industry, i guess is what Im saying.
>Eh, maybe I've been lurking and posting here for too long. Took your reply for snark right off the bat when its a fair question to ask
you're a rude namehomosexual, and noone is here to suck your dick OP. frick right off
I've always wanted to do something like this. Godspeed labrynthanon
Cool project, excited to see how it turns out
interesting project, Do yall have some one bank rolling this, to decide to use steel for everything?
The cat tower looking squeeze, seems a tad small, I do a lot of caving, and that would give most people problems, yet alone tards with no experience. They should also rock a helmet going through as those edges, even when grinded down will frick you up
I'm 6ft with work boots for refrence. Its tight but really not that bad.
oh shit where did you find such tiny workers
The crew is mostly Irish so we have a lot of lil fellas for the tight spaces.
When its closer to done Ill make a post about where it is.
Firemarshal approved the floor plans and we have another meeting with him before it opens.
These are awesome. When a Burger King went out of business we got their play area and mounted it to the ceiling of our first floor. They are great but hard to get in good condition, plus its hard for adults to move in them and this is intended for anyone who can climb it.
Minotaur yes we arent sure how or what it will be but ive built a few critters who will inhabit the maze. The homless guy is just something that happens you know man facts of doing business.
Is your fire marshal smoking a shitload of crack? This honestly seems more scary to me than a deliberately set up haunted house. I'd want to get the frick out of there, because if smoke starts billowing or the lights out you're fricked.
Honestly, it seems fun and extremely dangerous. Those aren't mutually exclusive, but God damn. You said you weren't even on the ground floor of a multi-level warehouse.
Worchester Cold Storage Fire
"The 6-story building, previously used as a meat cold storage facility, had no windows above the ground floor and no fire detection or suppression systems. The fire, which started on the second story, burned undetected for 30–90 minutes."
We have a fire suppression system and alarms. If there was a fire it would be detected almost instantly. We had an outlet burnout in one of the food service areas and the system went off before anyone working noticed or smelled it.
"The walls and many ceilings were covered with insulating layers of cork, tar, expanded polystyrene foam, and spray-applicated polyurethane foam. There were no fire walls or fire doors, and only a single staircase extended from the basement to the roof."
We are an entirely concrete, metal, and stone facility. We have minimal offices with dry wall walls and those have bare concrete floors. The maze is all metal. 4 Fire stair wells situated on each wall, and multiple internal stairs that are fire egress approved. On top of the approved ones, we have very few true dead ends in the facility so people in climbers are still able to exit. I get the concern but when you look at the details its pretty cut and dry.
>Is your fire marshal smoking a shitload of crack?
No, it's fine.
It's not a residential premesis - there are few fire hazards (after hot works are completed). It would suck being stuck in there during a fire, because firefighters are NOT being sent inside the labyrinth itself; they would enter the service area of the building if they needed to fight the fire internally - but more realistically you'd just shit a frick tonne of water on the exterior of the building.
I imagine the fire marshall just requires there to be appropriate egress for persons in the labyrinth.
Right now we have 5 fire approved egress doors. We are adding a 6th. 4 is whats required but we want to be on the safe side not only with personal safety but also ensuring that a change to building code years from now wont frick us like it has in the past.
AT every step everyone and everything is telling you this is a bad idea and should not be done, but you're never going to call it off and stop, this will end badly.
Not op but you are a moron anon. Multiple people itt have post similar attractions.
That there is more than one idiot in this world with funding does not surprise me in the least.
Recently some incredibly wealthy and educated men sealed themselves up inside a pringles can and went on a trip to the bottom of the sea and lots of people thought that was a good idea too.
OP just ignore this Black person keep building your weird sex dudgeon we support you
>weird sex dungeon
You may support him but you also essentially agree with me.
>lots of people thought that was a good idea too
Ok moron. Whatever you say.
https://www.unilad.com/news/resurfaced-letter-to-oceangate-ceo-shows-experts-warned-disaster-621465-20230620/
>I imagine the fire marshall just requires there to be appropriate egress for persons in the labyrinth.
I'm more surprised he didn't ask what your plan is for evacuating someone from the exhibit/maze in the event of an injury or emergency where self-evacuation is not possible. A few years back I was on a design team for a laser-tag maze and holy shit was that project raked over the coals. If there was any part of the course that could not be reached by an EMT with a gurney it was rejected and there was one point that the reviewer wanted us to show a freaking turning/maneuvering exhibit of it happening. Of course, different project, different jurisdiction, etc., but I am so glad I don't do those anymore.
>Firemarshal approved the floor plans and we have another meeting with him before it opens.
based, always remember on PrepHole the Safety Squad says safety always comes first!
>Minotaur
Just get a furry in a bull costume.
Be a modern day H H Holmes
There should be traps in the labyrinth.
From all the pics it looks like a poorly designed and poorly manufactured mess of a hazard to anyone inside of it.
I'm struggling to imagine people knowingly giving you such a large quantity of valuable materials for THIS, this frickin' redneck amateur hour deathtrap that smacks of being dreamt up while you and a teenager passed a bong back and forth.
What in the ever loving frick?
Post your welds and work history. We have a great insurance company who has worked with us for years on different projects. If we had injuries or structural failures we would be shut down. This is America. Nothing gets built without people signing off on plans and emergency procedures.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
A danger and a waste, what a goddamn shame.
You have no idea what you are talking about. What about this is unsafe? I'm half tempted to dox myself just so you can see how stupid you are. We have done this since early 90s. Never had a structural failure on any of the projects we have made and never had a death or dismemberment. Our record is better than our local city playground. Have you ever gone to playground school and learned about the hazards present on most playgrounds in America? You can armchair saftey inspect all you want, but the reality is something like this doesnt get built without many orgnizations in the city and 3rd party signing off.
>Never a death or dismemberment
Lol, that's not the bragging point you think it is, how many broken bones then? How many sexual assaults or robberies inside something like this?
>intentionally designing routes so that large parents must be seperated from their small children
Yup, brilliant.
>city and corps signed off on it
Yeah, because government and corporations are wholesome entities that look out for the little guy and nothing shady every got a city permit like a brothel or a front business.
I say it again: Frickin' amateur hour redneckery.
You would be surprised how many children actually die on playgrounds every year. Having multiple metal slides spanning an entire building means our record of entanglement is leaps and bounds higher than most schools. Our leading cause of injury is the same as all playgrounds. Head injuires from falling. In our case its mainly kids getting excited, being uncoordinated, then falling on the ground without tripping on anything but their own feet.
Sexual assaults? We have cameras and floor staffers. This is modern days. Our insurance requires cameras.
Seperating adults from children so they can reconnect on the other side? As I said above the entire project laps back onitself so its only the illusion of being seperated because a parent can just round the corner and skip the climber.
You watch too many mob movies. We are far too small to get away with bribing city officals lmao.
I should have worded the thread. "I want to build a maze. How should I start?"
The first room should look like part of a normal house. The fireplace is a secret door, either like Mr Toad's Wild Ride or you climb up the chimney .
There should lots of exit choices in the first room, some obvious and several dead ends.
Kind of like this actually. We have floors with climbers below the floor the maze is being built on. We cut several holes in kinda cutty places so if you adventure to the harder to reach areas you will be rewarded by pop'n up in a cool place in the maze.
>bribing city officals lmao.
Nothing so malicious, regular human and bureaucratic ignorance and stupidity will suffice well enough, regulations being based in which corporations make an end profit is also a factor and other things of a similar nature.
You can't use the red tape now, gotta use the blue tape, regs changed! why? Well it turns out about the same time the canadian company making the red stuff had been acquired by a florida company making the blue stuff, guess they didn't want to wait for the red inventory to naturally sell out and be replaced by blue, gotta go rebuy all your stock and switch over right away. I wonder who got greased with how much money for that little bit of short term wasteful greed to pass.
I agree with you on a lot of things but how you mount walls to each other, how you support weight, how many people are allowed in a space, how far falls should be etc etc are all pretty standard regulations. Plus our names as artists are tied to this irl, so if we frick up we look bad and no one will commission us for more stuff like this. We are incentivised to be as safe as we can
You could've just done a corn or hedge maze, the cushioned self-installing "safe" variety that's been tried and true for centuries.
Oh yeah corn man thats a great idea lets grow a bunch of corn inside of a 12 story building. Only the most moronic of guests will find some way to hurt themselves. You seem like you spend too much time at your desk and not enough time out in the world navigating with your flesh suit.
You don't do it inside, you don't need to, the hedge (longterm project) is self-installing with water and sunlight, the corn (short term project) is self-installing with water and sunlight.
You also don't go along with the hipsterish "escape room" type bullshit that this is so obviously a spin off of. Mazes didn't need to be re-conceptualized for a trendy and progressive interconnected youth or whatever the frick.
What in the frick are you even going on about. Anon didn't say anything that implied an escape room. It seems like a pretty straight forward maze concept. Multiple times they said the whole thing wraps back on itself... so where are you getting hipster escape room?
>be our crew
>have acess to a 12 story building that used to be a warehouse
>open floors with nothing in them
>have acess to a bunch of materials
>one guy starts getting into maze's n shit
>"hey why don't we build a maze on one of the empty floors we have"
>good idea bro lets do it
>do it
We don't have a large open lot we have a large building with open floors. Our roof isn't even flat or open enough for us to put a corn maze up there. I helped make a corn maze for 4H bro its a cool concept but it really doesnt apply here. Its a labyrinth in the idea that it should be big and imposing. Hard walls that you can't just walk through to get out.
Isn't an escape room just a hipster maze?
This sounds awesome. Dont waste time justifying it to mister no fun. Dox yourself so we can all get stuck in this maze.
>You would be surprised how many children actually die on playgrounds every year.
Not even two dozen. More people are killed by dogs than kids dying from playgrounds.
Until OP finished his project, then that all changes.
You’re a fricking moron and probably just a jealous troll. Shut like this exists. Leave your basement and you can see for yourself.
https://www.citymuseum.org/
This seems like a fireman's nightmare. I'm surprised you're even legally doing this on paper.
I can hear the opening song of the Station Nigh Club Fire footage in my head right now.
> I'm just here to post the thing Ive been doing myself.
>Me and some friends decided to build a maze
Hello DIY. SP1D3R anon here. Me and some friends decided to build a maze. A labyrinth, if you will. I'm working on it right now. I'll post more pics and answer any questions.
>We work for a larger entity that funds our ideas
Most of the steel was donated. A lot of it was repurposed from salvage or other projects. We get a lot of drop material from local steel shops and have good relationships with most of the scrappers and salvage yards. The walls themeslves were the most expensive part because we wanted them to be uniform, but even then we started with what we had for free then bought what matched the existing thickness and size. We work for a larger entity that funds our ideas but we are are the ones who decide what we build amd how its built. Its functional sculpture. People will be charged entry so if that makes this thread not DIY then I guess hop back over in one of the google it for me requests we call threads around here.
So you're saying
>I hang around the jobsite like a lot lizard and take gay pictures while the real men do the work
And
>were funded by the israelites and the labyrinth is designed to keep children from escaping the sex dungeon
Am I missing something?
You seem mad. You should try working on a project. It helps make you feel better about life and stuff.
Yeah sorry I don't care about your moronic israelite-funded child rape dungeon. The only reason I keep bumping this thread is because of your autistic seething. What a waste of good materials and it even seems like you have some intelligent designers wasting their time on this moronic project.
>also namegayging
>but muh "name helps when people are asking questions"
Yeah but no one made you choose that gay as frick tryhard name kek
Who was that austrian guy? built a dungeon under his house?
You're going to have to be more specific, they have literal castles over there.
It was on the news years ago.
Josef Fritzl
Yeah him.
Good God that was a terrible read. completely side tracked my night. The things that happen in this world man... worse than fiction.
it is fun to call op a gay pedo i do it all the time anon I understand.
This looks really interesting, thank you for sharing.
No furries allowed.
Kek
This looks like it could turn out really cool.
Please keep updating.
How big is the entire space? is it a rectangle?
> the fastest one to find their way out gets $100.
>This is how we will test the fire egress time.
Excellent,
So much better than yet another "how do i livv in woods 4 free?' thread.
Some of the donated materials we have used. A bunch of twinkie pans turned into a wall. They sucked to weld. Filled with grease no matter how much you cleaned them. Gears from a crane or a barge, i can't remwmber. An auger from a grain silo. One of the patrons of the space owned a large barge operation. He basically donated all his scrap steal to the space since he supported the work going on here.
>just diying my bros
>a child sized maze
>for art
>check out my insurance
>my buddies and I just scavenged all this 1/4 steel
>well and the big guy bankrolled this. He really wants this child sized dungeon. Like really a lot
>why are you insulting me, what did YOU diy today?
Its almost like childrens museums and play facilities exist. I assume anon works for a theme park or interactive exhibit. Do you get suspicious about the mcdonalds play area?
I would get suspicious about a guy diying a McDonald's playground as an avant-garde art exhibit, yes.
ITS NOT A FRICKING PLAYGROUND AND ITS NOT A FRICKINF ART EXHIBIT GOD DAMN FRICK THIS WEBSITE
I'm gonna post your adress for pretending to be me.
Posting more tomorrow. Hopefully we will get the top connected to the slide box and can show you that.
There is a crew that has been working on sections of it since 2018ish. We have a few certified welders with backgrounds and the rest are artists, stone workers, carpenters that we have taught to weld and learned stuff in exchange. Youll see some bad welds on the non important stuff tbh.
Post your welds or GTFO. I never said anything about banning adults from entering. With the bank stuff, how else are we supposed to do this? You're just mad that you have to pull overtime hours at the Dollar General to fund your gay weekend "projects" and mine is my full-time job.
Omar I am staring in your window rn shouldn't you be working with Donny?
Im not him, you working alone on this or is this someone else?
Post more plans too.
Fine, you caught me. I don't know how you guys figured it out so fast. I'm a homosexual and my boss is a gay pedo. I'm still going to build the maze between my ass fricking orgy sessions. It's a lot of fun. Teehee
bretty neat. keep posting
daniel beckwitt is that you??
Reinventing the wheel, OP.
These things were so cool as a kid. I remember being in one somewhere once when i was real little and i wish my parents took me to more of them.
Are there any surprise glory holes or a minotaur? Maybe a dressed up homeless guy that gets to rape you if he catches you?
Is this just an excuse for you to play with children in confined places?
If there isn't deadly traps then this screams pedo world. That's actually a good name for this place.
Honestly cool idea but it's kinda fun to call op gay and a pedo.
Working out the spacing for bars inside the climber. Can't be a distance larger than 3.5" between bars or it becomes an "entrapment hazard". We roll out the bars on this super old roller we have and its not super uniform if you arent good with it (im not good with it) so its been a test of my skills as a fitter.
The roller
Interesting project, OP.
You may want to ask over on PrepHole or PrepHole about design. They can use their computer skills to help you design a labyrinth that's optimized in one way or another.
I look forward to seeing the finished product.
Bumping this thread, it almost reminds me of what Meow Wolf did for a long time. Super cool stuff OP, keep us updated.
Meow Wolf is very cool. Look up Factory Obscura as well.
I pitched the haunted house bit for here and another spot in our facility but surprisingly of all things our insurance allows.... it doesn't allow haunted houses. Something about the amount of lawsuits haunted houses get, Idk, I just know I asked and they said no + heres why
frick the h8ters op. Please make this into a haunted house come fall. Just have everyone sign their life away upon entrance and turn them loose into the hell maze.
>someone gets lost inside
>starves to death
>free spooky corpse decoration
How else are skeleton props made?