The capsule concept stimulated another experiment. The Gasket house, which, as its name suggests, uses a series of plastic strip profiles of different patterns that can be built up into an almost infinite series of enclosures. Without the restriction of the tower layout these units show a more relaxed attitude towards servicing and enclosure. They are suspended from a megastructure and are independent of one another. In many ways this project anticipated the Living Pod of 1966. It too is a capsule, but the number of elements that are peripheral to the industrial design part begin to multiply out. We have by this time the instance of the capsule as only one of a series of environmental elements that are only sometimes interdependent. The Pod and the Auto Environment, and in fact all of Archigram’s later housing experiments, move away from the preferred relationship concept. But without it, they would have been impossible. There have been several built examples of capsule-like units (particularly in Japan and Germany), but they nearly all miss the point of the essential hybrid quality of the capsule dwelling, the tautness – even a delightful artificiality of its intended lifestyle?