The irony here is if you have enough money to afford this sort of thing, why would you live in a small space?
I think many people who can afford this sort of thing barely have any money to rent a closet in a city like Singapore.
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#42Do people really want to live in such slave dwellings? These futuristic minihomes keep popping up in media, but is this really the solution? The people I know who live in small apartments cannot even afford new furniture. I used to live in 25m2 and the last thing I wanted was these automatons.
In Stockholm and other cities in Europe, people are more than happy to live in tiny apartments around 30sqm that look like the one in the video. Examples in the best areas of Stockholm downtown: https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=925970&loc...
Are they more than happy? Or just settling?
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#43Why would it need to be robotic? If the friction on those tracks is low enough, then it should be possible to move the whole setup by hand.
Right. Lots of big libraries have these, to save space, and while I guess they need a strong floor, moving a ton of books by hand seems to be no problem.
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#44> Cities are booming and at the same time living spaces are shrinking.
That's not necessary with the right allocation of shared spaces. Are workspaces "shrinking" because more people work in coworking spaces?
Designers should stop pretending that prison-cell living is something desireable, it's not.
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#46Do people really want to live in such slave dwellings? These futuristic minihomes keep popping up in media, but is this really the solution? The people I know who live in small apartments cannot even afford new furniture. I used to live in 25m2 and the last thing I wanted was these automatons.
there are nearly 8 billion of us and we'll cross 9 plenty soon. industrialization, modernization, and globalization have already been driving people into cities for decades. going forward on top of that droughts, famines, hurricanes, floods, etc will increasingly drive climate refugees into cities.
we are already in a "housing crisis" that will only escalate rapidly as pressure from the net-influx of people moving in compresses living space. this is what ikea is talking about in the first minute of this video (which at one point was the link): https://ikea.today/ikea-explores-future-living-for-the-many/
your mental framework of "why would I, a wealthy person who can afford more, want this?" is basically a mistake of making it about you. its not.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you sleep in the same spot every night? I'm chuckling at the idea of you getting tired and just picking a random bit of floor within your house to lie down.
You have to bless the spot by circling it three times first.
There's a great spot by the window but i have to roll 90 degrees every 15 minutes to stay in the sun
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#48Do people really want to live in such slave dwellings? These futuristic minihomes keep popping up in media, but is this really the solution? The people I know who live in small apartments cannot even afford new furniture. I used to live in 25m2 and the last thing I wanted was these automatons.
there are nearly 8 billion of us and we'll cross 9 plenty soon. industrialization, modernization, and globalization have already been driving people into cities for decades. going forward on top of that droughts, famines, hurricanes, floods, etc will increasingly drive climate refugees into cities. we are already in a "housing crisis" that will only escalate rapidly as pressure from the net-influx of people moving in…
> we are already in a "housing crisis"
The places with a "housing crisis" are uber-wealthy neighborhoods or cities like SF or London, the crisis is not caused by incoming refugees but by high salaries, and yeah, it's rich people who live in those tiny spaces. Comparatively, poor people live in more affordable neighborhoods.
https://www.citymetric.com/skylines/mapping-uk-s-housing-wea...
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#49I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
How does that affect your romantic relationships? I imagine you're single since you don't mention a co-living situation which would otherwise be relevant. I imagine taking a girl home you without a bed might not be ideal. Also, does it affect your ability to sleep on a regular bed without issues?
I do have a girlfriend, but she's studying in another city. We see each other almost every weekend and agreed that I visit her place most of the time, since she can't stand sleeping on the floor.
It does affect my ability to sleep on a regular bed a lot (I sleep in her bed when I'm at her place). It's super uncomfortable for me, I don't feel as rested the next morning and she tells me that I am snoring very loudly and frequently in her bed. Sometimes I sleep on her floor as well, and according to her I my snoring almost disappears on the floor.
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#50I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much spa…
Do you sleep in the same spot every night? I'm chuckling at the idea of you getting tired and just picking a random bit of floor within your house to lie down.
You made me laugh, thanks! I do have three blankets (on which I sleep) that I store in my closet during the day. Most of the time I put my bed on the same spot, but sometimes I move it slightly (towards the windows on hot days, etc.), although not that much.