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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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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Have gnu, will travel.
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).
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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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.
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.
That's probably true of anybody occupying 344 square feet -- people who live in lofts and other tiny spaces come up with some pretty amazing ways of actually utilizing the space.
People who are completely disorganized would probably never be able to occupy a space like this. Me, for instance. I can't fathom living in that small of a space, let along being that organized with it.
However, if you do it right, you can make a small space seem far more usable/big than it would appear. I'm betting for an architect in Hong Kong, there's likely a lot of demand from others in very small spaces -- I suspect square footage is at a premium. So, if he's got a working space he lives in, it's probably a good reference to say "oh, sure, I can help with that problem".
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The sleeping quarters on submarines are often *always* in use, one shift replacing another regularly.
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!