wow this is retarded

Seriously?

I could see this being very applicable for space exploration or any other places where space is at a premium. Altered slightly, it could make overnight plane or train travel much more flexible. What if, for example, planes had a moving wheel (like in hamster cages) where you could walk for exercise on long fights?

Can't imagine what happens when the toilet or shoer overruns the first time...all the wood would lock up. Maybe if it were all metal. Then it would just be too cold. Oh, well...fun stuff for student's attentions.

I applaud the mental and physical execution of this exercise, but it is still dumb.

Fun idea, beautifully made, sexy materials and completely impractical... but I'm guessing practicality is not what the maker was going for.

Ridiculous.

Not for cliff dwellers.

I love this. The designer was clearly thinking outside of the box (no pun intended) in creating this home. It would be more practical if it could rotate on some track (like those old non-electric treadmills with their rollers) to deal with terrain issues.

It would be far too tempting to start rolling it around when the occupant was inside!

i agree with superbeetle

Ah, academia - the fantasy world where practical matters like human waste are just carried away by the beneficent fairies of whim.

Architects should be required to work construction for a year, ID's a season as a finish carpenter. Instructors for both disciplines should have at least five years of real world experience so they don't squander the precious time and money of their students learning how to indulge their ego on projects that can never serve their clients.

Choices limited by time, money and physics force the imagination to bloom. Balls out ego indulgence is just intellectual masturbation.

Well gee whiz @businessgypsy, while this space is surely a little bananas and a bit more than impractical, it's still a valid exploration in creative thinking. A college student is there to learn how to think creatively, believe in their ideas, accept constructive criticism and learn technical skills that help them achieve their goals.

Just chill, man. Art for art's sake really isn't so bad.

excellent work! will be fallowing your works its gives me really good inspirations.. its amazing photo!!

Just don't live near a cliff.....

It's a very interesting idea, who knows, maybe someone will modify it into something that actually works.

Cool idea, but likely impractical. I don't want to think about what would happen if pranksters got ahold of it. This is for the childless recluse to set in the middle of their really flat quarter section where no one but them knows about it.

It DOES look really pretty though.

Plenty of time to chill when I'm dead, Oven Mitzie! can you chill in a crematorium? Work on a few projects designed by people who have no experience in how things actually work, and your own tolerance level may be reduced. Colleges that produce more effluvia than ability aren't helping anyone.

I'm all for Art for Art's sake. That's why I'm snappin' and sketchin' everywhere I go. This isn't presented purely as art, but as habitat. Stuff that doesn't work doesn't work.

Wehehellll I think it's as clever as can be. I could live in it. Yes I could. I think it should be on a support system, though (hamster wheel style). And the bathroom could also be round and attached, but stationary so as to eliminate spillage and make showering actually possible

Being in the human race is as close as I want to get to being in a hamster cage.

It's a pity all that creativity, energy, and money couldn't have been spent on a remotely useful creation.

OK, I can see this as a space station module that might have very practical implications Up There. Especially if tethered within a cylindrical shell and connected to non-revolving space for the wet spaces and storage. (That work for you, "businessgypsy"??)

Or, with the same stipulations, it might work as a unit in one of those modular pod hotels.

The design and versatility is amazing, although I think the novelty would wear off really fast if you had to stay in one long term here on Planet Earth!

SherryBinNH - how does a non-revolving space for wet areas work in an orbiting zero gravity environment? When there is no up, does it matter what position you are in? No, that does not work for me (or anyone inconveniently bound by the laws of physics). As for tube hotels, you could do worse than the westernized versions of the Japanese standard found at YOtel. ( http://www.yotel.com/ ).

I've stayed in their Heathrow facility, and it works pretty well - without the huge expense of a brush armature electrical connection required by a rotating room, and in less space.

Think I'll stick with my original opinion. This is as bad as the conveyor belt system taking plants with exposed roots through a moisture spray bath in EPCOT's Living With The Land enviro-ride. Showmanship with no substance of any kind. I'm a huge Disney fan, but they screwed the pooch on that one.

Interesting, but not practical. The design does not allow for storage of anything, and I can't imagine how the toilet would work.

Some of the positions the model is in seem like they'd be comfortable for all of five minutes. And even the desk she's at seems awkward for her height and arm reach.

What's the point?

yves2013, this is design not 'retarded'

Perhaps impractical, but creative. Kind of reminds me of wooden tree pods. I see nothing wrong with trying to find ways to conserve space.

Regardless of what we think of the design, can we lose the disability slurs?

No thanks, I don't want to live in what looks like a cat's ear canal.

This was not meant to be practical, clearly. It is meant as a problem solving exercise on space management, materials, etc. As such, it was a pretty good implementation. Sometimes, it takes a bit of mind stretching, on even clearly impractical things, to develop great things that are practical.

Interesting concept. Thinking outside the box. Idealism sometimes trumps practicality.

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I think the creativity factor here is off the charts!!! even if it isn't practical...i'm sure most great inventions had their naysayers but i applaude the efforts in the process.

I think it's hilarious, and pretty neat. It doesn't need to be a danger near cliffs. Who is to say it can't be created stationary, much like a hamster wheel? And on that note, it should be easy enough to implement NON revolving portions of the tube for toilets and other plumbing matters.

Kudos for the creativity. I don't think creations like this are ever designed with the intention of going into production. More like exercising the mind. Hamster wheel indeed. ;)

A good starting point. It would be interesting to see if some of the ideas here could be converted into useable components of a real home. The idea of rolling things over (or into themselves) to expose alternative forms and functions IS a valid one and worthwhile in the context of saving space in a small home. Maybe a bed that rolls up into a flat-topped desk, or a chair that rolls over to expose magazine storage. Or rolling walls inside a cupboard that expose access to different storage or functions.

That wouldn't work with my friends, they would sneak up during the night to give the thing a spin!