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Bioscleave House Expands Lifespan
Published: Apr 3, 08
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The owner of this home says it is “immoral” for people to have to die. Arakawa and his wife Madeline Gins designed this offbeat (understatement of the year) home. The undulating floor is like a 12 year old with acne—it has a lot of bumps. But the owners believe the home, called Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa) will make people use their bodies in unusual ways which will provide health benefits.

 

 

“They ought to build hospitals like this,” she said. A reporter, who thinks they should never, ever build hospitals like this, tried to go with the flow. Like the undulating floor, Arakawa and Gins, as they are known professionally, tend to throw people off balance. All of it is meant to keep the occupants on guard. Comfort, the thinking goes, is a precursor to death; the house is meant to lead its users into a perpetually “tentative” relationship with their surroundings, and thereby keep them young. The architect Steven Holl, who has known the couple for at least 15 years, said their architecture is intended to evoke a youthful sense of wonder. “It has to do with the idea that you’re only as old as you think you are,” he said. (nytimes)

References:  nytimes, blog.fuckdeath.org

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