Getting inside the tree
May 5th 2008 09:14
I haven't been writing much on Orble just over the last week or so: too much else on my plate, so blogging has had to take a bit of a back seat. Still variety is good for us, eh?
Just came across a site called Treehugger. I don't know whether it has anything to with blokes as such, but it certainly has some interesting stuff on it. It's green-focused, of course, and in the post I picked up on the writer is talking about a house designed by Mihai "Nova" Popa, who may be an artist before he's an architect. Nevertheless he's built a most intriguing house near Bridgehampton, Long Island. It's made out of a demolished church, so the wood is wonderfully stained and glossy.
The house is elliptical in shape: 40-by-40 in the middle and 20-by-40 at the base. According to Popa, this means some of the house has been given back to the earth. Not sure of his thinking there, but in looking at another site where his artistic works are shown, I'm not sure that meaning is his basic concern.
In another article we're told he designs models of circular modular cities to float on the ocean, and to launch into space should humans face an exodus from a dying planet in an ecological apocalypse he believes is a possibility.
Sounds good, but unless someone gets pretty technological in terms of learning how to shoot circular cities off into space, we ain't gonna outlive that apocalypse.
Check out the photos of the house, nevertheless. It certainly looks like a place to feel close to nature in, though I have my suspicions that the curved floor might prove to be a bit of an issue.
Just came across a site called Treehugger. I don't know whether it has anything to with blokes as such, but it certainly has some interesting stuff on it. It's green-focused, of course, and in the post I picked up on the writer is talking about a house designed by Mihai "Nova" Popa, who may be an artist before he's an architect. Nevertheless he's built a most intriguing house near Bridgehampton, Long Island. It's made out of a demolished church, so the wood is wonderfully stained and glossy.
The house is elliptical in shape: 40-by-40 in the middle and 20-by-40 at the base. According to Popa, this means some of the house has been given back to the earth. Not sure of his thinking there, but in looking at another site where his artistic works are shown, I'm not sure that meaning is his basic concern.
In another article we're told he designs models of circular modular cities to float on the ocean, and to launch into space should humans face an exodus from a dying planet in an ecological apocalypse he believes is a possibility.
Sounds good, but unless someone gets pretty technological in terms of learning how to shoot circular cities off into space, we ain't gonna outlive that apocalypse.
Check out the photos of the house, nevertheless. It certainly looks like a place to feel close to nature in, though I have my suspicions that the curved floor might prove to be a bit of an issue.
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