You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
A house that is skate-boardable.
“skateboardable”
That shouldn’t even be a word. It’s a word like Yabba Dabba Doo as a mating call. It’s like “scrum-dilly-icious” as a slogan for 100 proof wiskey.
But when you see these pictures, I don’t know what else you call a house that is the x game orgasm of a generation of baggy pant wearing kids.
If you have Mountain Doo surging through your veins and X games tattooed on your ass then this house is for you.
If you need to hang ten on the sidewalk or off the stairwell, then this house will have you drooling.
It’s a prototype in Malibu, California. Where else dude?
And just about every surface is “skateboardable”.
Imagine a skateboard park in a house. Imagine su casa with a bowl and a half pipe and a rail.
If your X brain can fathom such insanity then you are starting to get the architectural picture.
The ceiling and the wall and the floor all mesh together in a smooth, oval-egg-like creation that should have skate boarders popping wheelies across the living room, and the foyer, and into the broom closet.
According to published reports: There are no corners. From the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom the ground becomes the wall and then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming a tube with a 10 foot radius. The furniture is also curved for skating, including some groovy looking tables and beds.
The project will be the home of skateboarder Pierre Andre Senizergues, a former world champion skater, and owner of skateboard company Sole Technology. Way to bring your work home with you Pierre.
Building a house out of what you do for a living. Can you imagine what a sanitation engineer’s home would look like? Yikes. Would a fire fighter make a house out of charcoal? What does a stripper’s house look like? Feathers? G-strings? Pasty’s?
The house is great if you are 14 years old and like to smoke a lot of pot. I am not sure how it will resonate with real humans with real adults.
How will the cat and dog like the seamless wall / floor transition. I bet there will be some slipping and sliding going on there.
How about grandma? Maybe she can get in her Whirly Electric Wheel Chair and get some air off the couch.
It looks great for boarding, but how great is it for sitting and watching a movie? Where do you hang a plasma on a curve smooth wall? What about the acoustics? I guess I’m getting old when a skateboardable house makes me say; I’d rather have wood floors with corners.
