Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as prototypes for mass-customization. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly. The concrete was set to the wrong parameters or scale. The printer module falsely translated a data set...
These misprints are the rejects of this early process, and they are now being used as shared homes by elderly people from the former squatter scene.
Love it. Architecture as Glitch Studies niche.
I hate it when my house grows a tumor and all the carpet fibers fall out after the chemo;.
This explains where all the people in Armored Core For Answer live.
Bottom right, if scaled up, would make a perfect church for Flying Spaghetti Monster worshippers.
I'd live in the third, bubbly, design. I kind of hate the glitch-rationalization behind that, though.
Sounds like they dared to propose a series of "tumor inspired houses," but didn't dare enough to admit it. :)
ZIPLINES!!!!
My hoax-dar is tingling. These are likely to be deliberately created art, not "glitches."
jwz left off the most important line of the article:
"these visualizations of future architectures"
Why the rest of the article is written as if they exist--I don't know.