Every home should have a Greg Lynn blobwall

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3519

Link: Blob Mentality.

Its name may reek of science fiction, (((yo!))) but Greg Lynn’s Blobwall was conceived under pretty prosaic circumstances. Inspired by kids’ outdoor toys and 1970s Italian interiors, Lynn had the idea to put a colorful plastic wall inside the home he is building for his family in Venice Beach, California. He designed a hollow plastic form—a blob, as it were—that could function as a whimsical alter native to bricks, with heat-welding replacing mor tar. The commercial applications quickly became appar ent. “A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic,” he says. “But it’s some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. I thought, Well, why not tackle this big chunk of the environment that, really, nobody designs?”

For now, however, the Blobwall’s commercial incarnation is more modest. Panelite is offering it in three standard modules—eight feet tall, in widths of three to six feet—which ship as finished walls already assembled and heat-welded together....

(((These are really ideally suited to today's American home, as they look so much like American financial mortgage instruments.)))