credits: G&A

Bioscleave House

East Hamptons

Madeline Gins & Arakawa have decided not to die.

Gins & Arakawa are a husband and wife poetic architecture team who have been working 45 years to create habitats that prolong the life of the inhabitants by taking away any sense of stability.. Their latest is the Bioscleave House in East Hampton, built to cradle tentativeness:

“It gets you back to your basic, generative level of existence…You cannot resolve your view to any one horizon. Therefore you feel mighty tentative.”

There are no level surfaces; there are poles to help you keep your balance; upon entering the house you must sign a waver stating that you understand you are about to go mountain climbing.

credits: G&A

Your Himalayan living quarters

All of this is designed to kill sedentary old age: work for your existenc and you will grow strong, fast, poised…

Watch a New York Times tour of the house.