Dive summary:
- B+U Architecture, a Los Angeles firm, is advocating a window – or more than a window, perhaps – that ignores the rectangular traditions of the light openings in buildings and can change shapes.
- The firm has used the openings – it says it has replaced a "flat aperture" with a " three dimensional spatial object" – in the design of a proposed condominium building in Lima, Peru.
- Here's an artist's rendering of the fiberglass openings that act as livable spaces and can change shape.
From the article:
These pod-shaped openings also serve as inhabitable spaces that blur the divide between indoors and outside. ...