Thread: Why Do People Live In Square Houses?

If that's the case, the very nature of reality itself is distorted

Distortion can sometimes be good. Without it, you can't have perspective, and without some perspective those static four walls can start closing in around you and quickly turn stagnant and seem more like a prison.

Self-similar spirals are all around us, all the time...

Including the proportions of the human body which we subconsciously use to determine the very essence of what we consider beauty...

1... 1... 2... 3... 5... 8... 13... 21...

Everybody should live in a hobit home, you know like bilbos house on lord of the rings.

It would make decorating, furniture, plumbing, electrical wiring, lighting, etc. very hard. Seeing that many houses would be different, trying to set something against a wall smoothly would require a custom made round edge. It's just irrational. I do agree, that would be cool.

Well I believe you would need a plane to put a picture or something on the wall.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Well this thought occurred to me last night. We are organic shapes, our natural form is curved, and we're used to viewing our world as a flat surface with a large dome. Why then, have we created a society out of straight lines and squares? It is so unnatural and just feels wrong.

Imagine if all the rooms in your house were circular and domed. I guarantee it would feel so much more natural. Are the straight lines a result of needing a way to measure things? Could we only measure things with straight lines before mathematics? Is it just a functional thing, in that squares fit together more easily than circles? Is it some other simple or complex reason I'm missing entirely?

To be honest, I think that this society should be completely rebuilt around circular aesthetics. I believe society would be more peaceful if we took steps to nuture our souls, and reconnect with nature and our natural forms. I mean, so far, we've been building a society based on many things...but what about catering to our most basic instincts, and continuity with nature.

Everyone should start out by building just one circular, domed room in their home. It's not much, but it's a start.

Break out of the box. Throw the cubes away. Spheres are the future.

I've always wanted a dome shaped house. Hopefully I'll live in one someday.

in a perfect world we could build anything we wanted. we haven't got there yet, and mankind won't be the one to bring us there. we see the continued failure to do so. but that's another subject.

even within a circular house, we can't escape the reality of the suffering and selfishness taking place in the world.

but imagining we were there now, studying nature is generally what teaches mankind anything. having forever to learn and practice new ideas, we could do anything, even design communities like those seen in the pictures posted in this thread. something that works very well is usually built with wisdom and is deceiving to look at. but physics and math do not fail. there is a way to do anything.

some of us wouldn't like spherical buildings, some of us would. in a perfect world we could build cities of both, and all the better than we do now. and that would be for many reasons, probably tying both efficiency and beauty together, because everyone loves both.

now in the world it's nice to see ideas attempted and even come out successful, demonstrating the possibilities are endless. but a lot of other more important matters need to be cleared up before i could find full contentment in living on this planet.

This thread reminded me of a house I always see when I go to Pensacola Beach.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Well this thought occurred to me last night. We are organic shapes, our natural form is curved, and we're used to viewing our world as a flat surface with a large dome. Why then, have we created a society out of straight lines and squares? It is so unnatural and just feels wrong.

Imagine if all the rooms in your house were circular and domed. I guarantee it would feel so much more natural. Are the straight lines a result of needing a way to measure things? Could we only measure things with straight lines before mathematics? Is it just a functional thing, in that squares fit together more easily than circles? Is it some other simple or complex reason I'm missing entirely?

To be honest, I think that this society should be completely rebuilt around circular aesthetics. I believe society would be more peaceful if we took steps to nuture our souls, and reconnect with nature and our natural forms. I mean, so far, we've been building a society based on many things...but what about catering to our most basic instincts, and continuity with nature.

Everyone should start out by building just one circular, domed room in their home. It's not much, but it's a start.

Break out of the box. Throw the cubes away. Spheres are the future.

yay! circles...

Rectangular walls and glass are cheaper to make than curved ones. Other shapes would be excluded because humanity has developed a routine for making the same things.

also it is easier to make a square out of wood than a circle is...

because their the easiest to build