Strandbeest revisited?

[shaneis]

I saw this article about walking/ nomadic housing and thought "great, it must be about Strandbeest"...sadly I was wrong. I could not find any mention of the original concept on the N55 website.

 

"New" concept article in the UK's Telegraph newspaper...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3235261/Walking-house-can-escape-floods-or-unruly-neighbours.html

 

and their homepage, http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/WALKINGHOUSE/walkinghouse.html

 

or if you'd prefer, the ORIGINAL... http://www.strandbeest.com/

 

Is it a case of copying an idea and changing it enough to call it their own, or is it a complete coincidence?

 

By the way, the Strandbeest site is worth exploring. Enjoy!