The last thing you'd imagine growing up is to live inside a floating egg. But artist Stephen Turner took up this challenge. Starting this month, he'll live inside the Exbury Egg - a self-sustaining studio/home/boat/monument to fertility, for a year.

This odd form of residence sits in the estuary of the Beaulieu River in Southern England. Built in collaboration between Turner, PAD Studio and the SPUD Group, the egg has room for a bed, desk, a wet room and a little stove. As for the bathroom, we've no idea where it is but he IS living on a river, so we're drawing conclusions from that.

The egg will be docked near the shoreline, so it'll rise and fall with the tide. While living in the egg, Turner will study the life of a tidal creek, while the egg evolves based on the elements - taking on tarnish of strong coastal winds, sunlight, and hundreds of waves per day. It's a strange project, but Turner says the point is to raise awareness about the changing climate:

Climate change is already creating new shorelines and habitats. Established salt marsh is being eroded by a combination of rising sea levels and falling landmass and the entire littoral environment is in a state of flux. The implications for wildlife and for the flora as well as for people are challenging. Raising awareness of the past and the unfolding present of a very special location will be the task, whist living in an ethical relationship with nature and treading as lightly as possible upon the land.

[Exbury Egg]