An impressive collaboration between living-with-less blog, LifeEdited, and space-saving furnishing dealer, Resource Furniture, the LifeEdited Apartment is nearing completion. The goal: to fit 650 square feet of utility in just 420 square feet, including a living room drop-down home theater with hidden projector, and a standing/sitting work station. Preview video below...
The original challenge was a crowd sourced competition with the following parameters:
A design based on Graham Hill's 420 sf (~39 m2) apartment. The design should support the life of a real person in the apartment - someone who would work, eat, live, and entertain. We were looking for apartment designs that allowed for:
- a sit-down dinner for 12 people
- a comfortable lounging option for 8 people
- space for 2 guests with some visual and ideally auditory privacy
- a home office
- a work area with space for a rolling tool chest
- a hideable kitchen
Completion of LifeEdited apartment (LE1) is expected for early May, 2012, so we'll soon be seeing these 3D animated previews replaced by real photos/video soon! You can see some of the materials sourced over at Treehugger's ongoing updates.
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Looks cute but how much will it cost? Will some or all of these concepts make it to the 'real' world?
i say IDM music fits this perfect, didn't know whether to jam or watch the video. have to agree with SFchris though, this looks like it would cost so much, that if you had that kind of money you could just buy a much bigger apartment.