Title of the article is a little misleading as it's actually 24 different configurations but pretty cool to do that to a tiny little space.
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Architect Gary Chang calls his Hong Kong living space the ”Domestic Transformer.”
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In the video below, Chang shows off how he turned a tight space into an eco-friendly apartment. The kitchen is behind the TV, the guest bed is above the bathtub, and the bed folds into the wall. The key is in the sliding wall system, which can make 24 different arrangements.
I actually saw this on TV, which surprises me in that I don't watch much TV so the odds of me having seen it are pretty slim.
It's pretty cool what he did ... kind of like architectural origami. However, I'd slit my throat if I had to live in such limited space. I guess I'm too much of a N American, but I need a little more elbow room than that. About 10 acres is good.
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I've never seen that one before, but I think there used to be (or still is) a full show dedicated to how people transform and then live in such tight spaces.
Definitely cool. I don't think I would mind living in a place like that.
That's pretty cool, but day in and day out this would get extremely tedious. Just taking a bath you have to move a few bookshelves. But definitely a cool idea.
It would be neat if you could automate it. You would wake up and get up and sensors in the bed would know that you had gotten up and would open the bathroom for you. When you get out of the tub it would open up your closet.
even if you just had a control panel it would make the space very livable.
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Thats nothing there are 'apartments' of the down town eastside that have 24 people living in that kind of space, of course you don't need to much room to overdose in, not to many TV's or cd collections hanging around.
Definitely cool. I don't think I would mind living in a place like that.
It would kill me. I would not do well in a place like that. I mean you have to do what you can with what you've got but I would be depressed as hell having to come home to that every day.
It would kill me. I would not do well in a place like that. I mean you have to do what you can with what you've got but I would be depressed as hell having to come home to that every day.
If you think that's bad, here's the other end of the spectrum (from today's Herald):
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's so called "cage men" may be among the city's poorest, but rents per square foot for their dingy wire-mesh cubicles are now on a par with luxury flats in the city's famed Peak district.
With Hong Kong's property prices having soared over the past year and urban redevelopment shrinking the supply of older, cheaper tenement blocks, thousands of cage men still dwelling in 15-square-foot cubicles, usually crammed eight to a room in rusty tiered bunks, have seen their lives squeezed even further.
Architect carves tiny apt into 24 rooms
