Most expensive homes have extra built-in features that are meant to make the environment more comfortable, but not the $2 million Bioscleave House on Long Island. Husband and wife architectural design team Arakawa and Madeline Gins have made sure the "Lifespan Extending Villa" they created is specifically as uncomfortable and unsettling as possible. At the core of their campaign to defeat mortality is the idea that "comfort is the precursor to death." They believe that they have created an environment that keeps people constantly tentative, which in turns helps them stay young and cheat death.
So what makes it so uncomfortable? The floors are severely uneven and bumpy (you have to sign a waiver before you can enter and there are poles to grab onto in various places in case you lose your balance), all the light switches and electric sockets are placed at weird angles, and it's painted in an array of crazy colors (some walls include as many as 40 different shades).
Interestingly enough the couple doesn't seem interested in living in it themselves, as it's currently sitting empty waiting for occupants. That thing cost $2 million and now they aren't even going to live in it. What, they don't want to defy death after all?
Can't say I blame them. I hope to be nice and comfy in my old age, death precursor or not.
Via Engadget
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4-13-2008 @ 8:36AM
KF said...
Nice bathtub. Everything else? Absurd and an offensve waste of resources and construction materials.
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4-24-2008 @ 12:18AM
Colin said...
The amount of stress that the environment would cause would most likely offset all, if any positive effects that this house could possibly have.
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