How to design a house to last 1000 years
Constructing a building that would last 1000 years is not particularly hard with modern engineering and materials.<p>The hard part is, first and foremost, getting someone to pay for it. I&#x27;m not going to live 1000 years. My great grandkids likely won&#x27;t even live to see the year 3022. Why would I spend  orders of magnitude more for a house if a structure meant to last ~100 years serves my needs perfectly?<p>My friend just needed to redo the foundation on his house. He could have spent 10-100x what he needed to and installed a reinforced concrete foundation with deep steel pylons. But that would have been a waste of his money when wooden peirs works just as well for all his intents &amp; purposes.<p>The second problem is making sure people want to maintain the structure for 1000 years, or at least not tear it down. I don&#x27;t think this is as hard as the other comentors are saying, though. Just don&#x27;t build the house in a city. The house will be torn down if it&#x27;s in a city. The house has a good chance of staying a house if it&#x27;s built out in the countryside on a decent plot of land. Nobody will ever want anything from that structure but to live in it, so it will be maintained.