When all goes well, when bore threatening,
Take your boat and go to live a while
In your hut in the middle of a lake’
Here you will recover instability…
These are some of the wonderful lines reproduced from Etienne Meneau’s site. His work borders between engineering and art. The designs on his webpage are fascinating and his latest one maison elastique, or elastic house, is bizarre, to say the least.
The elastic house is made for those who love instability and precariousness. Obviously the concept is an engineering nightmare and the hurdles in making one of these seem insurmountable.
Here’s how he describes his creation:
The elastic house therefore asks its inhabitants a strong
sense of balance and a real taste for the experiments.
It is difficult to imagine anyone want to live in such a
house. And yet this one could turn out to be a success in areas prone to earthquakes. The only problem: how to make elastic walls!