Art and Style | February 23, 2008 | 7 comments

The hermit crab home

source: http://www.prettycoolthings.com/2008/02/22/moving-into-your-own-very-own-shell/

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This is a house straight out of the imagination of Roald Dahl. It makes you wonder why we all live in square boxes when we could have made our houses all shell shaped. Why didn't we make all of our houses shell shaped? Why did mediocrity win over creativity?

It's a good thing the internet came along to demonstrate that we needn't follow what seem like entrenched conventions. If you want a house built like a shell then go and build one, just look at what you might end up with! Square is SO pre-internet....
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7 comments // The hermit crab home

  • ashleyinesta
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      ashleyinesta  

    • this is an amazing design, the travel channel occasionally have shows on unique houses in all shapes and sizes, some designs include sharksand tea kettles.

    • 4 years ago
  • lmerchie
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      lmerchie  

    • This is just beautiful. Containers can come in any shape. This design allows for a natural setting and colored light. As an artist it fulfills many of the components that I think make a better world. Non-conformity to rigid lines.

    • 4 years ago
  • dkincheloe
  • sabkl
  • dkincheloe
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      dkincheloe  

    • Reminds me of Gaudi. And, of course, because it's a Nautilus shape, I'm thinking of Fibonacci and the Greek's Golden Phi. So, quite a cool thing! Thanks.

    • 4 years ago
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  • mischabarrett
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      mischabarrett  

    • That is awesome, although, I seen the results of that thinking in this pod, and *whispers* not sure I could spend longer than 20 minutes there without getting a headache...

    • 4 years ago
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