Will the future of Vancouver condos look like this? 8 rooms in 350 square feet!
A friend posted this video on their Facebook page today and it made me think…is is possible that micro-condos like this one in Soho, New York are the way of the future for Vancouver apartments?
I think the use of space is ingenious! The multifunctionality and simplicity is very appealing. Although, I’m not sure how well this would work for a family of four…and not sure I like the idea of the “extra room” being a pull down seat on the toilet. LOL.
What are your thoughts?
that is soo cool but having to build parts of my house each day when i needed them might drive me nuts….
Imagine if you had a few glasses of wine??
I like the concept but I think it might be a bit claustrophobic for even two people used to North American home sizes. Having cabinets everywhere let’s you have a really clean look with everything out of sight, but I wouldn’t agree with him in saying it counts as “tons” of storage. Great for single minimalists who like to have dinner parties.
Defiantly not a nice sized living room. Or Apartment for that matter. The bathroom as a nice sized room to make a private phone call from once you cover up the toilet seat! Ha!
Who are these apartments being built for? Defiantly not the people designing them.
At the last West End town hall meeting they were trying to sell us on these sized condos saying they would be building a bunch of them for boomers and students to live downtown. I wonder if they are going to end up converting all these sorts of spaces into apartment buildings in the future as they did with the Coast Hotel in the WestEnd.
Personally I want to see the city planning for family’s. What a waste of resources when builders could be accommodating people who already live in this city who need larger spaces and cannot afford luxury spaces. This demographic currently exists. Why is our city not meeting the demand families are asking for.
I would love to see apartments like this in Vancouver. I want one!
There’s a cool company in Gastown called Resource furniture that makes stuff like this…multifunctional furniture, the evolution of the Murphy bed, super cool stuff designed in Italy I think:
http://www.resourcefurniture.com/vancouver
This is actually written in agenda 21. The whole idea is to get us into small spaces that are crowded. Easier to control when you’re all crammed in a chicken den.
I would totally do this if I was still single! This is a lifestyle choice and I think it would be very hard to be in so little space with children.
If this is an indication of Vancouver’s life style….What a sick statement.
Only in Lotus Land would inhabit a mole’s nest and such a high cost of living.
The rain and congestion is a joke.
This condo is actually in New York…remains to be seen if this is the direction we are heading in Vancouver. I would rather see family-friendly row-houses than shoebox condos like this (no matter how functional and well-designed they may be).
I don’t know if you’ve seen this but I don’t think we are pretty far away in Vancouver:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-cage-homes-Tens-thousands-living-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html
If you look at some of the condos built lately they seem to be smaller and smaller (3bdrms 999sqft). It would it be ok if prices go down as well, but they don’t, they go up.
Overall, I think it is bs, all this design is another way of masking the space reduction, flashing all the “cool” crap. Who knows how all these will function after a few years of usage?
This is my first post on this website, and I want to take this occasion to say that I love it. I always thought the whole housing market thing is more of a kafkian scenario, and it’s nice to see how you captured the essence of this absurdity.
One other thing that bothers me is the cost of public transportation in Vancouver. If you are on a minimum salary, with the latest price increases, one hour basically goes to fund your transportation for the day. It’s insane!
I’ve been to Nice last year. Not only I’ve seem more affordable house/appartment prices (and we are talking about Nice here, it has 300 days of sun), but a ticket for a bus trip that would take you in any of the surrounding villages was 1euro (saint paul de vence, eze)! After comming back to Vancouver, it was very hard to adjust… Why do we pay so much for cheese, for bread?! I used to go to this bakery in Nice called Multari, they had cheap good cakes (one thing that I liked about them was that they were not so sweet), good bread.
Sorry, I am just going off here, but after seing a few European cities, Vancouver lost its appeal to me. It is a Potersville.
Even if I had 1 million in my account (dreams, I know
) would I want to buy a house here?