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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the vertical-living dept.

looorg writes:

IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.

It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20

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  • (Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:48PM (3 children)

    by Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:48PM (#1200292)

    Still bigger than a prison cell but the same order of magnitude. Current US standards call for 6.5 square meters, legacy cells still in use are 4.5.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:44PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:44PM (#1200305)
    Sounds spacious, relative to your typical cubicle sizes:

    W  H    Sq ft  Sq M
    6  6    36     3.34
    6  8    48     4.46
    8  8    64     5.95
    8  10   80     7.43
    8  12   96     8.92

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:21PM

    by looorg (578) on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:21PM (#1200340)

    A modern prison cell is approximately 10m^2 in Sweden. There may also be some furniture from IKEA, there probably is.

    https://www.kriminalvarden.se/om-kriminalvarden/123-fragor/#faq13316 [kriminalvarden.se]

    Still as I mentioned I don't think this would be for me, ladders around the flat. I think one of the images showed the bathroom and it had a ladder in the shower. So I wouldn't want to live there permanently.

    That said for a buck per month I might still rent one if this somehow became a common or real thing. If nothing else it would be a very cheap storage shed or area. Or a small office or workbench area.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday November 29 2021, @02:39AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday November 29 2021, @02:39AM (#1200383) Homepage

    My travel trailer, where I lived comfortably for 25 years, was about 140sq feet. It was also a lot more space-efficient than any of these designs (I'd joke that it had 8 rooms and three floors, depending on which way I was facing). But I've noticed that the travel trailers from its era (1961) were a LOT better at utilizing the available space to max out what could be done with it. It's almost like people in those days needed to do more with less, so they did it better.

    However... I bought it from a married couple, and hell if I can see how they managed to stay out of each other's way.

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