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Transparent House in Japan

May 15th, 2012 by Lina | No Comments | Filed in Design

If you say you have nothing to hide, try spending a few nights in the see-through house located in Tokyo, Japan. Built by Sou Fujimoto Architects, this 914 square-foot transparent house was inspired by our ancient predecessors who inhabited trees. While so-called “House NA” offers plenty of daylight, expect no privacy here.

“The intriguing point of a tree is that these places are not hermetically isolated but are connected to one another in its unique relativity. To hear one’s voice from across and above, hopping over to another branch, a discussion taking place across branches by members from separate branches. These are some of the moments of richness encountered through such spatially dense living,” says Sou Fujimoto.

Architect: Sou Fujimoto Architects

“The white steel-frame structure itself shares no resemblance to a tree. Yet the life lived and the moments experienced in this space is a contemporary adaptation of the richness once experienced by the ancient predecessors from the time when they inhabited trees,” says Sou Fujimoto.

Photographer: Iwan Baan

Transparent House in Japan originally appeared on Bored Panda on May 15, 2012.


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Translucent Ants Eating Colored Liquids

August 17th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

They say you are what you eat, and it’s especially true with the translucent ants. Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India, placed specially colored sugar drops in his garden to attract the weird insects his wife found near the house sipping the spilled milk.

“The idea for the photograph came to me after my wife showed me some ants that turned white sipping the spilled milk drops on our kitchen counter,” says Mohamed.

Some of the ants would even move from one color to another resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs.

more: dailymail.co.uk

via: thisiscolossal.com

Translucent Ants Eating Colored Liquids originally appeared on Bored Panda on August 17, 2011.

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