The Tiny New York Apartment Of The Future

Looks like building something out of stackable Lego's.

Maybe they should call it Legomes ha.

If I wanted to be that cramped, I'd live on a sub. I can imagine it though, coach cruise ship cabins are about the same size.

People. Having a large home is nice but not necessary. You think that someone that's living on a budget in Manhattan (a lot of people!) want to pay thousands of dollars for a big home outside of the city? No. To a working class/ middle class person living in Manhattan, a small, cheap apartment is best. Manhattan is crowded as is anyways, building nice big two story homes is impractical. To you that might look uncomfortable. It looks that way to me too, but you still have to think about the market these homes are being sold in.

i think that's a nice, functional, and sexy apartment. 3d print them, solar power them with indium gallium nitride, mass produce em, and house humanity.

free the people! you useless overlord politicians and corporations.

yeah, and an SUV is a great vehicle if you don't have to park it, deal with all the people you piss off, or have to pay for gas, insurance, and loans.

Some more basic questions: What about entry, utilities access, and wet walls?

You could run per faucet on demand electric hot water, and there looks to be enough space behind the storage shelf for climate control (mostly because you wouldn't need much), but it's darned hard to get to and you still need venting and cold air returns. The lav wet wall is planned for, but the kitchen has a sink drain too.

I also noticed that the sample building neglected to include hallways. You need to unstack them every morning or something?

One more: that fold down counter is going to need a LOT of support.

Some 8 year old is going to find out it's bouncy and use the thing as a diving board.

Speaking as a landlord though the concept is droolworthy. I could double or triple the number of units in a given space, and increase my net by like 40%. The floor to ceiling wood would have to go, unless you could hit it with Bartop or something equally bulletproof. You can't put spackle on wood.

Get the bugs out though and I might just buy me some.

I'd rather live in some sort of shared accommodation with bath en-suite and thick walls... That kitchen is a waste of space and quite tough on the structure as well (so many pipes to handle) while the idea that each of us would have friends over seems kind'a weird.. at any given point in the evening there's gonna be a lot of empty flats. Want to live in Manhattan? Bed + bath should do.

@ pehash

sleeping rooms don't rent for nearly as much though, and you get a different kind of tenant. One who doesn't stay long, damages property, and tends to skip. These things need to be profitable or no one will build them.

what I see probably happening with these if they go low market,(and everything eventually goes low market at some point) is either people converting the shelf into a sleeping loft and keeping a family of 4 in one, or converting the kitchen into an office area and using them as some sort of student or long distance commuter housing.