Walking House Can Run Away From Floods
Art collective N55 built a walking house complete with bathroom and kitchen that can start hoofing it should shit hit the proverbial air-exchanger. It was allegedly designed to move to higher ground should a flood hit Britain. WTF, do they not have mobile homes in England? And if not, I'm moving there.
Hit the jump for a couple more pictures and a video of the leggy bastard in action.
World's first walking house [thesun]
Thanks to Uncle Ecolli, who once emptied his chemical toilet into a storm sewer.
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