Remember your mama always telling you not to skateboard inside the house? Well, think again, mom: Francois Perrin of LA-based Air Architecture has shared with us some pretty impressive photos of his latest production, PAS House, a full-scale, 753.5-square foot prototype for a house he is currently designing in Malibu, CA for former pro skateboarder and founder of Etnies footwear, Pierre-André Senizergues (PAS).
The prototype, fully equipped with sofa, bed, furniture from the Skate Study House collection and even kitchen appliances, was just recently part of the exhibition Public Domaine/Skateboard Culture at la Gaite Lyrique, a new museum in Paris. For the 25th birthday celebration of Etnies, their team of pro skaters did a demo session in the prototype.
The complete residence, where everything in the house is skateable, will measure 2,200-square feet and will to be located in a site overlooking the Pacific at the top of Malibu.
The concept was envisioned by Senizerguesand and developed by skateboarder/designer Gil Le Bon Delapointe and architect Francois Perrin.
From the project description:
"The concept of the house is a ribbon that creates a continuous surface to be skated from the Outside to the Inside. The house is divided into three separate spaces. The first one includes the living room, dining area and kitchen, the second one includes a bedroom and bathroom and the third one a skateboard practice area.
Each space is skateable as the ground becomes the wall then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming a tube of a 10ft diameter.
The furniture is also skateable, whether it is integrated in the curve like the sitting area, the kitchen or the bathroom or just as standing object like the dining table, the kitchen Island or the bed. Closets and drawers could be integrated in the curve too."
"The PAS house is the first house to be entirely used for skateboarding as well as being a traditional dwelling. It is the ultimate dream for generations of skateboarders who wanted to bring their practice into their home.
In the practice of Architecture, it also represents a groundbreaking in the construction of a non Euclidian geometrical space with a continuous surface that creates a new experience of the domestic space, more fluid and dynamic and reflecting of our 21st century lifestyle."
8 Comments
Sick!
Domesticated, yuppified and advertised. Another consumer pollution like living in an MTV commercial with scripted behavior pattern. What a bore!
Eh. I don't like these references to skate culture. First steven holl and then now this? Kind of a shallow and distasteful concept if you ask me. Leave authentic skate culture for the gritty city streets.
There have always been specialized rooms in residential architecture: music rooms, entertainment rooms, exercise; everything imaginable. Entire houses dedicated to an idea or purpose. Or a material . I remember reading, seeing in SAn Francisco Joan Jeanrenaud of Kronos Quartet house, the walls were were made with lead to acousticaly deaden the sound when she played her cello.
But that's music, This skate board house has more to do with physio-culture like some experimental soviet projects ie the slanted floors of 'the house of dreams', an architectural experiment to study effects on dreaming.
I like the anti-gravity aspects and it reminds me of the space station interior in Kubrick 2001 Space Odyssey it expresses the anti-gravity ideal of early modernism. This version, with skate boards, dedicates and domesticates an entire house to an exercise/sport, like a pet bred to highlight eccentricity.
Circular 2001 interior
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YFbXKOW1NoQ/TFPAiyRZjQI/AAAAAAAADvw/ySYU4VyswPI/s1600/2001+space+odyssey+in+space.jpg
eric chavkin
posted by ERIC,
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT, BUT NOTHING TELLS ME I CAN
1. FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN OF THE SKATE BOARD SCENE, THIS HOUSE IS LIKE HAVING WASTE BASKET TO PRACTICE SHOOTING IN A SMALL SPACE FOR A BASKETBALL PLAYER.
REALLY NOT MUCH OF A CHALLENGE FOR REAL SKATERS .
2. THE FURNITURE IS DREADFUL. ANY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDENT COULD MAKE ALL THE FURNISHINGS COME OUT OF THE SURFACES AND WITH A LOT OF INTEREST, SO THE DESIGN IS VERY LIMITED AND NOT VERY CREATIVE.
3. WHAT IS THE POINT? A GALLERY PIECE TO GET SOME ATTENTION FROM THE IGNORANT?
4. WHAT I SEE IS AN EXERCISE IN MAKING THE FLOOR WALLS AND CEILING AN UNINTERRUPTED FLOW. OK BUT THIS PIECE FELL SHORT OF REALLY MAKING EVERYTHING DO THAT.
GLEN HOWARD SMALL, ARCHITECT
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I agree with comment number 2 but designer at least has physically built it and that should be enough satisfaction.
Looks fun to skate but I can only imagine that it would take on the smell and atmosphere of every indoor skatepark everywhere - a horrid mixture of masonite/skatelite and sweat with microscopic particles of wood fiber permeating the air.
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