domingo, 26 de dezembro de 2010

And a final word of praise for the author of this simple statement with classic means:

Life is too short to be irritated.

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May 2004

texto e imagem: Internet/ ION SORVIN: WALKING HOUSE

N55

N55 advocates a nomadic life style in movable, sustainable micro dwellings.

N55 is a Copenhagen-based art collective founded in 1994, named after both an address and Copenhagen’s latitude, by Ion Sorvin and his late wife, the Norwegian artist Ingvil Aarbakke. N55’s core message is about freedom and the dissipation of ownership, "but it was also about mobility, about not disturbing your environment, and about not having to own land."

An early project, Land, consisted then, of buying and dedicating small plots of land to public use in in less populated places or waste patches of cities. Each one was marked with a steel polyhedric cairn, which declared the area as belonging to 'the commons'.

N55 gained notoriety with Walking House, which "is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain water and a system for solar heated hot water.(....) continua no site...