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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.
In the architectural world that is called "time lord technology" and we typically don't like to talk about it.
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Have gnu, will travel.
The best part is that he turned it into a time machine and had the story posted over and over again on slashdot.
Cool apartment mod, but this was all over the place years ago.
You'd have to be obsessive compulsive to live in one of these places.
Leave you car keys anywhere but the designated spot.. whole system probably jams. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I suspect you'd have to be very tidy to keep this functional.
Still, pretty damn impressive!
He would find a job at Aperture Science any day.
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Exactly. He could replace that entire bookshelf unit with a kindle and add another 3 rooms.
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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).
It seems that his skills could be very useful in designing multi-purpose rooms in the (extremely) cramped spaces of spacecraft used for long duration voyages.
He might welcome the challenge since presumably he could design with the additional freedom of the third dimension. That assumes the spacecraft is in zero or very low gee environments most of the time like under ion thrust or having "landed" on a small asteroid.
I wonder if he does set design? These skills might be very good for quickly changing sets especially in venues where they do not have a lot of backstage space.
I saw this on This New House on the DYI network about six months ago this is really old news. Really neat news but really old news.
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...in an expensive city. While the building looks awful from the outside, what's inside is beautiful IMHO, and would certainly be a 'solution' for people looking for a way to utilize their small expensive living space to the fullest. At least, I don't know of any large city that isn't expensive in terms of house prices.
One would wonder about humidity etc. though. The bed being stored away like that would be a recipe for - okay, you can fill that in yourself. And what about leaking etc. - if you'd even find out about that in time that is...
I used to think so. I'm an incredibly hard core geek. A couple of years ago I took the Leatherman off my belt and put it in my pocket, I took the mobile phone out of the belt case and put it in the leg pocket of my carpenter pants (and moved to carpenters exclusively). Now I'm looking around my apartment. I'm getting rid of most of the media, except for a few things like the LOTR boxes that look like books and a couple of things like it. I'm leaving the framed picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue, the framed "Homer Simpson Scream" picture, I'm leaving my B9 Robot, my Slinky and my Cylon on the shelf, but I'm hiding most of my media. I was going to hide my computers, I was going to take an old console stereo and set it up so that there were new modern speakers where the original speaker went, I was going to have the LCD come out from where the turn table used to be and I was going to have the drives accessible where the TV doors used to be but I realised I didn't actually have the time to undertake the project, though I would still love to do it.
I guess as I reach my mid 30's I'm learning to dial it back a couple of notches.
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according to the above comments - I'm glad it got reposted cause I must have missed it.
I, for one, think this design is friggin awesome. I'd like to see how he routed his power needs on some of those panels.
However - to hell with being in what appears to be a shitty building otherwise. Though I'm unfamiliar with Hong Kong so maybe this is the good part of town.
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I have no idea how expensive this stuff is.
My home is comparable to the Transformers too - basically the same as it was in the 80's with a few unpopular changes and a more costly budget. Also Megan Fox is no longer welcome.
His, not his parent's anymore.
English is not this
Please leave the room, I have to transform it into a shitter.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
The apartment does not transform into 24 rooms or even 24 different configurations. Since 1976 the apartment has had 24 different layouts; each one created by a renovation and not sliding walls. The last layout is the one in the article and uses sliding walls and a Murphy bed to maximize space use. Take a look at the layouts you can make out. The bathroom fixtures in the 1989 layout are completely different in the 1998 layout. Changing the shape of a bathtub by moving walls would be a really great trick. How does the furniture disappear? In the 1976 layout there are 3 conventional beds while the 2006 layout has none.
Reminds me of this old "interview"
Until 1999 Hong Kong was British territory. Give it 200 years and they will all talk like rednecks.
Any small living area has to be kept tidy, since there simply is no room to make a mess. Sling walls make no real difference in this.
But the sliding walls make this a single task apartment. You simply cannot one person stay in bet while the other starts watching tv. Since the kitchen and the bed share some space a luxery breakfast also is not very practical.
Single user, not really a problem for most slashdotters.
Kindle renders pictures really nicely though, though obviously not in colour yet. I love the John James Audubon screen-lock pic (the birds/branches), would like to change things so that it only ever uses that as the screensaver (well, maybe that and the kindle tree/kid reading silhouette, that's also a beautiful image).
Kindle app on a colour tablet is really nice to use. It's actually decent on my phone too. I prefer a backlit screen when indoors, but the Kindle has already been great for taking on long journeys due to the excellent energy efficiency, and it will be really nice for just relaxing outside in summer with the e-ink screen :)
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That does look nice, I am impressed with the 16 shades of gray and what they can do with them.
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Cultural issue, really. Some people aren't so materialistic and can get by quite happily without a lot of stuff. One computer (laptop), a TV is all they need to be happy. If they want to read books, they visit their library. If they want to work on things they gather at friend's places. Of course, they probably work on small art pieces to fit in places like this, and do things outside the house.
Of course, I would go nuts in a place that small - but that's just me. Other people I Know use their houses just to eat and sleep - they go out and do other things.
This went arround the net over a year again, also I think it was posted here. ./ should die
If you'd just stop coming here and inflating the page-views, you'll get your wish.... slashdot will die.
Oh wait, looks like you wrote dotslash. Looks like http://dotslash.org/ is already dead. You win!
Now, 89ft, that's tiny. And these have a bathroom, of differing levels of completeness. http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
Lots of YouTube videos of tours are out there- get the mind thinking about how much wasted space we have.
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I know what you mean, but ... have you ever pulled out one of those old books and read them? If so, how many?
I'm not the grandparent, but yes. I only ever buy books when I want to read them a second time (first time is from the library). Usually I end up reading them a 3rd time or more. Things like Lords of the Rings and Dune I must have read at least 7-8 times.
Some books I don't read in their entirety tough, I have quite a few atlasses, maps, cookbooks, historical reference works, RPG manuals and such. Overall I think I have about 30 meters of filled bookshelves, so the collection is quite substantial.
Even if I could, I would not replace it with an eReader, as I don't trust the formats to be still readable in a few decades. Quite a few books I have are older than the invention of the transistor. Either originally owned by my parents or grandparents, or bought second hand. Some I hope to pass on to my children one day.
I have books that are literally over a hundred years old passed down from my great grandparents. Sherlock Holmes or Charles Dickens or Jules Verne are still well worth reading.
Not nearly all my books are that old, but I don't want to increase my burden of format shifting any more than I have to.
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