At issue is the legal concept "house rules" — and whether landlords can issue new rules for their properties and then evict tenants who do not obey.
So, dropping acid with "Claude the Creep", his professional rivals and the variously unwell women at Concept House may not have been Busner's best idea.
In "Umbrella," he has arrived at the public facility only after abandoning a Laingian experiment gone awry — "Concept House," where doctors and patients have equal status — and his wife is threatening to leave him.
In Concept House, there is no distinction between patient and doctor, and some of Busner's fellow frontiersmen of the subconscious are clearly closer to needing help than being helpful.
In Shark, we get the reasons for Busner's change of heart and mind: his experiences in "Concept House", a venture inspired by RD Laing's philosophies, which featured in Self's first book.
The fact that he has never lived in such a high-concept house (he resides in the John Adams, a Greenwich Village 1950's white-brick co-op) seems to him beside the point.
In the concept house for that project, to be called Pierson Lakes, a Byron-Hill principal, Luther Gueyikian said: "We decided to put a humongous covered porch with granite floors, two elevators inside, a wave pool in the basement.
Developed over the last few years in partnership with the YMCA London South West, manufacturers SIG and project managers Aecom, this 36-unit "Y Cube" project is the practice's latest foray into off-site manufactured housing, a dream Richard Rogers has entertained since his "Zip-Up" concept house in the 1960s – an unrealised fantasy of a modular pink prefab pod on stilts.
The company uses the top of the concept house for executive meetings.
A concept house has been built for the London Design Festival, in cooperation with the Building Centre and construction services company Arup.
