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Cute dog. But the house? Weirrrd.

I'm a sucker for weird homes that look like they were crafted out of mushrooms homes. Someday something like this will be mine.

awesomeness! my mom would love it, too.

I read this article on NYTimes.com this morning—the video feature-audio slideshow with the architects is, um, interesting. However, I cannot see how living here would be in any way a linchpin for "defeating mortality." I'd much rather be comfortable in my home and uncomfortable scaling a singletrack trail on my bike, or on a treadmill, or chopping wood with an ax in the yard. Thank goodness the kitchen's floors are level—imagine trying to cook on a trampoline??

love the dog

My 3 year old would have a ball! The dog however doesnt look too happy to be there...:(

i must be getting old from not living in a space that looks like this one, but i found it ridiculous. my first thought, cynically, was if you have money to burn, this is what you do.

ridiculous.

Those floors are concrete, no less, so you may be immortal but you will have a hell of a dental bill.

I wrote this post a few hours ago and I still can't get over how pissed the dog looks. Hilarious! I think he sums it up!

What a waste of a perfectly good chunk of property...

The fact that I really like Lizzie's Chicago Small Cool entry is making it very clear that this does NOT work for me. I feel like I need to hold onto something before I fall over.

If I was a kid that house would be amazing, but I am not and it makes me think of an SNL skit.

twenty-twenty one—Yes! the Nuni skit...

garish.

Watch the video and you will understand that this is more of an art installation/statement than a 'traditional' house.
It pushes us out of our comfort zone!

"no silly, it's NUUUni. you've got to spread your butt cheeks."

needless to say i am devastated that Maya Rudolph left SNL for this very reason...

It looks like fun, but the problem with living here would be that you would always have to wear shoes. I prefer going barefoot at home. The floor has so many bumps...must be hell for the puppy!

I love the exterior, and I love the colours throughout. I'm not sure what that bumpy floor is doing though - it made me do a real double take. There again, how fantastic to do something so entirely unheard of with an interior.

crzybckyf: obviously it is more of an art installation/statement than a traditional house, but these people do design them for living in, not just for showing. They did that with the lofts in Japan.

Then again, there is no fridge in the kitchen and doesn't appear to be a toilet in the bathroom so maybe this is just "art" and they are making it seem like they live there?

Either way, I can't get past the awkward narrow spaces in the kitchen, the concrete floor (which is disappointing because it looks like foam or carpet), or the super stiff bath tub. However, I do like that it's bright, airy, colorful, and unique.

That pug photo is one of the Best. Things. Ever! It completely nails everything what's ideologically and practically wrong with the house.

I can imagine the elderly Japanese people mentioned in the audio slide show, just weeping with gratitude to the Master Architects as they crawl across their inanely skewed and nobbled floors...

uh, THAT'S ideologically and practically wrong with the house.

I should never have looked! Yes, the whole thing gives me the willies. BUT, I'm also fascinated by the idea of a house that is to ward off death. I wonder if this fixation on not dying would function more like a memento mori -- constantly putting death in mind??

just to correct ms. pea, there is a refrigerator.
and two toilets.

more images may be found at
www.reversibledestiny.org/bios.php

dizzy....my head is spinning.

Why would you want to extend your life if it meant living in a house like this?

i think it looks like peewee's playhouse, and i've always wanted a place like that.
i'm also amused by the total lack of imagination in some of these comments. lemme guess: if it came from dwr it would somehow be fabulous.

? how did they get past the bldg. codes?
If this is an experiment? what about global warming issues?

When did living on and around unsettling forms/colors become a way to extend your life., such BS. Maybe my toddler would love it.

Since when did architects take the place of nature or God?
I rather die naturally.