Biomimicry [1]
Egg-spanding Architecture: dmvA's Unfolding Egg

We've seen the chicken [3] (and the duck [4]), now here's the egg [5]. Belgian studio dmvA [6] designed an extension for the offices of hip furniture agency XfactorAgencies [7] (they represent MDF Italia and Established & Sons in the Netherlands). Problem was, local building regulations kept getting in the way of the project. So dmvA did what any bad-ass architect would do and found a loophole.

By designing the office as a mobile unit, they got around the building codes and creating a totally double-take-inducing piece of architecture in the vein of psychedelic blob-itects like Archigram [8] and Ant Farm [9]. If you're around, check it out in person next month when it moves to the Art Foundation Verbeke [10] in Kemzeke, Belgium.
Just one question, would this be filed under shipping crate architecture?

[Via WAN [11]]
