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Walking House
Like a large black robotic
bug, Walking House by Danish
artist collectiv e N55 invites
visitors to “start thinking
about the way you live”, says
artist and N55 co-founder Ion
Sørvin.
In October the house took to
the road around the grounds
of Wysing Arts Centre in the
UK as part of the centre’s
exhibition of experimental
artists’ work. “The space
in which you live has a big
influence on how you think
and how you act towards
other people,” says Sørvin,
and N55 wants the Walking
House to be a “friendly way
of suggesting to build a
different society”, he says.
To design the 38,000-
euro computer-controlled,
six-legged wood, steel and
polycarbonate structure,
Sørvin and Øivind Alexander
Slaatto worked with Sam
Kronick from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Since 1996, the
Copenhagen-based group
has designed innovative
products and mobile structures,
focusing on self-sufficiency,
nomadic living,
low-cost designs – like the
Snail Shell System, a cylindrical
polyethylene rolling
all-in-one compact shelter
and boat – and practical
applications of sustainable
technologies, such as the
Soil Factory, a household
composting device. N55
publishes details about its
projects in “manuals” on the
group’s website. “We are not
working with some kind of
ideology or something,” says
Sørvin. “This is a practical
way of suggesting other ways
of thinking.” Robert Such