24 Rooms in 344sq Feet

This is a little unusual for a Slashdot story, but you've got to respect the hacker ethos that makes something like this possible. Gary Chang modified his 344 sq foot apartment with a system of sliding panels to transform it into 24 room combinations. I'm not so excited about the tinted windows, but the functionality is sweet.

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Old "news"

[Anonymous Coward]

This went arround the net over a year again, also I think it was posted here. ./ should die

24 combinations, not 24 rooms

[SpammersAreScum]

Headline is wrong, but to be fair TFA's is as well. It's not 24 rooms, it's 24 room combinations (each consisting of between 4 and 6 rooms as far as I can tell from the diagrams).

Re:Hire him for long duration spacecraft design!

[IAmGarethAdams]

The sleeping quarters on submarines are often *always* in use, one shift replacing another regularly.

Re:Minestone

[Heian-794]

Car keys?

People who live in big cities where apartments of 344 square feet are normal don't waste massive amounts of space on parking for cars -- there will be stores within walking distance, and they probably take the subway to work.

If the guy lives by himself, 344 ft^2 really isn't small at all. My wife and I share just under 38 m^2 (408 ft^2) and, while not spacious, our apartment certainly isn't tiny. We have a kitchen, living room, and bedroom, plus a bathroom, and a balcony on which to hang the laundry. This is in Tokyo, where density is about the same as Hong Kong.

When we have a kid, then we'll start to feel cramped. But there are other people in our building raising kids in rooms the size of ours!