Challenging Human Spacial Needs

Always a fan of architecture, concepts that challenge people's current ideals of what is right, necessary, good, and true: Yahoo!news has delivered again.

The article, World's Skinniest House, is an art installation in Warsaw, Poland. As a technicality, it is only an installation and not a house because it does not meet certain Polish building codes. Otherwise, it technically is livable, ranging from four feet across to a mere twenty-eight inches. It houses a bathroom, bedroom, what looks like one window, and will apparently be the workspace for Etgar Keret, an Israli writer. I cannot even tell if it houses a kitchen, but that is because of the phone and lack of housing specifics in the article. Still, it's courageous. Or crazy. It all depends on your perception.

The article did comment, however, that it is a bit of an eyesore on the surrounding area and would even seem to hinder creativity, as the space is so small. Regardless, it rivals the 9.6-foot wide house in NY, which initially surprised me.  

I'd like to say it's a nice change from the expansive demands of society up to this point. Everyone wanted bigger thinking it was better, but we can only expand so far, as we will run out of space before we run out of greed. Maybe these smaller houses are more a testament to humans realizing sometimes more isn't better, it's just more. Now it's just time to find a happy middle ground.