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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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PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday November 29 2021, @02:39AM
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.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.