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Compact Compact Living

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:17PM   
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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Original Submission

• Re:tiny green (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 29 2021, @05:31AM

  by khallow (3766) on Monday November 29 2021, @05:31AM (#1200431) Journal

  Frankly the system we had made no consideration for material limitations.

  What material limitations? This is bike shed stuff. We have better problems than how much materials are used in construction and such. But those better problems are hard to understand and sometimes hard to improve - like how to increase our lifespans, for example.

  It's pretty absurd in general to have a precedent set for acre lots with 2000ft² buildings as the status quo.

  Nobody is forcing you to buy one.

  But everyone has this model in their head that they need a single family home with 2000ft².

  So what?

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