Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Click on this link to see a home in a box.

http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/ ... 000950.htm

synch ...

last weeks Time magazine (December 5, 2005 issue ~ Time's always ahead of itself `lol`); had an article titled:

Raising New Roofs
"Whether it's for disaster relief or relief from urban sprawl, these housing designers have ingenuity nailed down"
By JEREMY CAPLAN
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 62,00.html

Where they previewed the new Building in a Bag



"..two British engineers [Peter Brewin and William Crawford - Students at London's Royal College of Art], both 26, dreamed up the Concrete Canvas--a sack of cement-impregnated fabric that morphs into an emergency shelter with the addition of two simple ingredients: water and air."

... but my favorite building was this one:



The Natural Ellipse: A two-family home, featuring a staircase and skylight at its core and a bedroom above the living room by Masaki Endoh of Japan (website: http://www.edh-web.com/ )




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homes in box
home in egg
and buildings in bag

~ creation; alive & well; and evolving
beautiful stuff

that's just beautiful, deb.

i saw this a few days ago but have been running through the net.
love the emergency shelter idea. Brilliant

and the egg is exquisite.
thanks

judih