The Bioscleave House (Life-Span Extending Villa), designed by avant-garde artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa, has hit the market, the four bedroom, two and a half bath house asking for $2,495,000 via Brown Harris Stevens.
Building upon the couple's fifty year body of research into solving death—what they saw as the ultimate design flaw—the house comes with the unique promise of staving off mortality. Commissioned by the art collector Angela Gallman back in 2007, it has been designed to empower its inhabitants to resist their own deaths and reverse the downhill course of human life.
The East Hampton home features walls of more than three dozen different colors and an undulating, dunelike floor that challenges the body in unexpected ways. Windows are placed at varying heights, there is an open flow of traffic, and the kitchen is sunken at the center of the house—all designed to rejuvenate whoever moves in.
The house, which cost slightly less than its current asking price to build, is the couple's first and only completed architectural work in the United States, save for a juggling escalator. Also on the site, connected to the Bioscleave and included in the price tag, is another architectural gem: a 1960s bauhaus-inspired A-frame designed by Harvard architect Carl Koch.
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citations needed... everywhere.
How does it impact my chi?
"...only completed architectural work in the United States, save for a juggling escalator" stopped me cold. Wut?
did you say juggling?
Commissioned by the fashion designer Rei Kawakubo for Dover Street Market – New York, the Biotopological Scale-Juggling Escalator is a scaled version of the Reversible Destiny Lifespan Extending Module. The module is a flexible form often found in the architectural works of Arakawa and Gins that is characterized by a large central space surrounded by, and linked to, four individual rooms.
http://www.reversibledestiny.org/architecture/biotopological-scale-juggling-escalator
So much woo in that diagram... my chakras are all misaligned now. I think I'll need a 3-day juice cleanse and some new healing crystals before my aura is restored.
This PoS is far more likely to kill you than extend your life. I'm amazed that it passed inspections. And wouldn't be surprised at all if it hasn't. Without a doubt it will sit until finally sold for land value at which point it will be razed.
Gins died in 2014, so it clearly didn't work for her. Arakawa died even earlier.
As Newsweek described the project that year: “Each apartment features a dining room with a grainy, surfaced floor that slopes erratically, a sunken kitchen and a study with a concave floor. Electric switches are in unexpected places on the walls so you have to feel around for the right one. A glass door to the veranda is so small you have to bend to crawl out. You constantly lose balance and gather yourself up, grab onto a column and occasionally trip and fall.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
Also just have to say: Death isn't a design flaw. Without death life is pointless.
I'd say, dying is the point of life.
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