Slog - Comments on Your Reversible Destiny http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny Fnarf, the Humian, sent me a vision of hell: Designed by Arakawa and Gins, built by Takenaka Corp, located in Tokyo, and called the Reversible Destiny Lofts, the pictured crazy looking apartment building has this purpose: to simulate and invigorate its residents. With that in mind, Arakawa and Gins designed a building of nine apartments known as Reversible Destiny Lofts. Painted in eye-catching blue, pink, red, yellow and other bright colors, the building resembles the indoor playgrounds that attract toddlers at fast-food restaurants. Inside, each apartment features a dining room with a grainy, surfaced floor that slopes erratically, a sunken... Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:50:00 -0800 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:56:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by thecandyqueen That's some Alice in Wonderland shit.

]]> thecandyqueen http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635355 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:05:57 -0800 Comment by ellarosa inspired by mcdonald's playland structures, carnival funhouses, with a touch of the home makeover in "beetlejuice?" reversible destiny meaning the opposite of death, ergo...childhood? land o' goshen, modern japan sure is a stange place.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635358 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:10:44 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways i like em..these would sell like hotcakes on the Hill.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635382 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635382 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:21:10 -0800 Comment by BB What crime must one commit to be sentenced to live in this eternal vertigo?

]]> BB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635388 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:26:13 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The funny thing is they're for old people. And deliberately annoying. I'm remembering my own grandparents and trying to imagine them stooping down to crawl out onto the veranda. "Tripping and falling" as a deliberate strategy for old people who quite possibly will never walk again if they fall.

They look like licorice all-sorts, though, which is cool.

Charles, I'm not sure I'm a Humian; I'm more of a logical positivist, I hope without the unfortunate baggage that has been known to go with on occasion. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635389 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:26:44 -0800 Comment by kinaidos "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist."

But if you do measure it then it isn't what it was before you did, per Schroedinger. So reality would seem to walk a fine line between measurement and it's possibility, perhaps something like Whitman's walk through the starry night with the thought of death on one side of him and the knowledge of death on the other side of him.

Oh, and the building looks like something Fisher Price would have designed as a habitation for it's little people. In case CM has not been exposed to this phenomenon as we all were as children: http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=lplanding

or the old-school version:
http://stingrays.tripod.com/toymuseum/toyfplp.htm

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635411 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:53:15 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I would so love to see some places like that here in dreary Seattle - how about Fremont?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635431 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:18:47 -0800 Comment by m. octogenarian concerns aside (though not lightly!!), i think this thing sounds like it marches to the drum BOTH of frustration AND of delight!!

how about doing one here combined with a mandatory game of "musical apartment" every few months or so?

it'd be the perfect habitat for those who'd like to try and achieve a state of sustained questioning of the kinds of things we take most for granted...

and all without drugs (or with, whatever your preference)!!!

wheeeeeeeee!!!

i'm in!!

]]> m. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635460 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635460 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:47:54 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Electric switches are located in unexpected places on the walls so you have to feel around for the right one

That detail alone would be enough to make me to take an ax to every surface in one of those apartments.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635495 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:17:28 -0800 Comment by Mr. Sauce's Friend I wonder if this is the future for the elderly, then what is the future for those group of humans who are thought to be the laziest: the homeless?

In the future, the shelters will be so crowded that their residents will be crawling over eachother. When they want to leave, they'll simply hop out the window or exit through a funnel in the floor. The heat will be turned on during summer, but turned off during winter, and huge electrical fans will blow upon them from the ceiling.

The food will be spicy and strange. Some of it will move.

Visitors will arrive periodically to bump and prod the residents with electric zappers.

All of this while a large metal tube plays out "music" composed by an electrical engineer, though his occasional, hysterical laughter will sometimes make of the resident's seemingly eternal turmoil a welcome interlude.

]]> Mr. Sauce's Friend http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635531 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635531 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:37:19 -0800 Comment by MvB Oh, Charles...are you trying to ask Audrey out? That's cute!

]]> MvB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635547 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:51:00 -0800 Comment by frederick r i can always count on you to ruin my day, charles, with your negative rants.

]]> frederick r http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635565 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:07:45 -0800 Comment by Brian People you are not allowed to live anywhere except in suburban homes with burnt lawns, boring condos with no lawns or an apartment with Charles and if you cry well look out.
The idea! Painting a home different colors, trying to stimulate your life.
It is in Japan, don't even think of understanding why!
OK lets try.
It is kinda like people there not understanding why Seattle does not have rapid transit.
Talk about crazy huh?

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635676 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:00:31 -0800 Comment by m. i want the lime green round one near the back...to start...and forget belltown or capitol hill...let's throw this thing in bellevue so we can really twist some panties!! it'll be a sacrifice to live on the east side for sure, but what a payoff...!!

]]> m. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c635700 Architecture Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:34:26 -0800 Comment by Dougsf #2 beat me too it, but yeah, that's some McDondald's playland shit right there. But it isn't hell, hell is painted beige.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c642694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c642694 Architecture Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:57:32 -0800 Comment by m. pea-soup beige.

]]> m. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c643273 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/your_reversible_destiny#c643273 Architecture Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:56:24 -0800