Arakawa and Gins is at it again!

Arakawa and Gins is at it again! They recently completed their first project in the United States - a house subscribing to their Reversible Destiny philosophy. Reversible Destiny is Arakawa and Gins statement against aging and death. The concept for the spaces that have been built based on this idea, such as the Reversible Destiny Apartments, could be seen as the architectural manifestation of research done on neural plasticity and enriched environments in animal models.

But this is perhaps an extreme example of what architects/artists do when they make certain assumptions about the effect of their work. While designers have to make assumptions on a smaller scale, they are not usually basing the whole concept of a space on an unfounded idea (or at least an unfounded scientific idea in humans). Still it is incredibly fascinating to see something like this built in the US and I certainly would be one of the first to line up to do the research on one of these spaces.