well thats just too much...talk about minimalist!

I think I would have a heart attach. I don't really do well in small spaces. Just looking at these pictures makes me tense up.

That's only a mere foot over the 3' radius most people have as their "comfort bubble".

Nie.

this is like the smart car of submarines.

I need SUNLIGHT! This thing looks like it has only one porthole...maybe.

i feel clinically depressed just looking at this. Will wait for the day's house tour.

Interesting as an art installation...but it doesn't seem very functional as a home, at least for me. I need more windows, and room for a couch, and while the retractable stairs are cool - they mean you can't put anything in that room (except for a lime green beanbag chair apparently).

Claustraphobia for sure!

This is just utterly ridiculous.

It looks like the space was not utilized very well. And I'd also ad more skylight and windows.

Where is the kitchen? I would make the whole roof a sunlight...and then sell it as quick as I could, there's no way I would live in that!

Is city space in such a demand that we have to build above an alley? Anyone else concerned about the air quality? yuck!

I too would be concerned about ventillation/air quality and that entire roof should probably take advantage of natural light, but I'd love to try something like this out, so long as I had storage/workspace at an alternate location--and it were soundproof. No use living in a pod if it doesn't let you escape the world.

Who wants to come over to my house for a party?! ...No, you can't really talk to anyone except the person in front of you. ...No, you can't really turn around all that well. ...No, it didn't actually pass common fire codes. ...No, it isn't very comfortable. Okay, forget it, it was an awful idea.

That guy looks really lonely.

c'mon. it's a torture chamber. period.

He will not live in that. There are 3 tiny windows, Half the main floor is a stairway(ramp), and it is utterly depressing. This is only a concept. And the home isn't 4 feet wide, the lot is 4 feet wide so when it is built It'll be more like 3 feet wide. If he got away with and 18 inch desk he would barely be able to walk around it to get to the bed. If he had a two foot wide dining table it would be too tight to walk around that. Even in Poland this would not pass fire code.

The alley in which this monstrosity fits is only 9" wider than a twin mattress. But you some of the 9" is lost to walls. So really, it's like living in a space barely wider than a twin bed. Yikes! :-O

All that surface area and one little window? I'd make the whole front glass with frosted glass in the bathroom. This triangle shape is ridiculous - horribly inefficient; "at the acute point of the living room you can crawl on your knees to a bean bag chair" - ha! The front fascia is design for design sake, not a problem solver one bit... Oh yeah, front door anyone? Welcome to hell.

Even if I won't live in there, there are people who can't afford living in a nice apartment. Never the less, taking advantage of unused space in this way is brilliant!! and designers can come up with this kind of ideas as a pro bono projects to improve the society standard of living and to eliminate wasted space.

Aside from what everyone else has already said...uhm...from the street, it looks like a tampon...could it please not be white?

Bleh.

Thank you Front PorchPirate for confirming I wasn't the only one!!! It would be easy to tell guests how to find it......just get off at that busstop and look for the o.b.

I would like to know how you get in/out of this thing.

I would totally live in that thing. The long hallway into my 400 sq ft studio is about 4 feet wide. My desk at work is a bit under 4', so in one dimension my cube is about 4'. It's roomy enough for a workstation with dual 24" monitors. I've had an apartment with a washroom that was as wide as a small shower.

As many have pointed out, more natural light. I'd want two sides of that triangle to be glass. I'd also want it to be a square instead of a triangle, and have 3 sides of it glass.

The retractable staircase is a neat idea too. It's cool uses of small spaces like this that have me looking for an even smaller studio for my next apartment. I've seen some here in Seattle that are < 200ft. That might be a fun challenge.

All I can think about it the poor people living to the right of the existing alley who at LEAST didn't have to share a wall on that side, and now this weird thing has been shoved in the tiny bit of space from others they had.

No.

Concept sketch, I suspect. I've seen another view of this house that shows the two bubbles on the front are translucent and bring light in from the street side.

I think this would be fine for a week or two. I see it as equivalent to tent camping.

As a studio, sure. No distractions, and when a creator is in 'the zone' the size of the space reduces to the immediate task at hand, anyway.

I think it's great!

I also suspect that the odd shape is dictated by existing windows.

I like small spaces, but this is just depressing. It looks like a fancy jail cell.

Shower anyone? Dresser?

It's all fun and games until the dog gets swallowed up by the stairs. It looks interesting, but I can't imagine having guests over. Recall a time when having to push by someone in the kitchen or even public transportation has been, at best, mildly irritating, then multiply by a thousand.

Hm, that is the width of a small car, right? I think the concept is very interesting. Could add mirrors to make the space look bigger. And instead of closing off the street view, why not build the entire front as a window (with fancy shades, of course). And utilize the vertical space - maybe the bed and the tv is pulled down, etc. Fun idea.

I love small spaces and would probably do okay in that house for a short while, but it would bother me that I'd never be able to have people over, unless we wanted to stand and chat to each other in a single file line. I'm surprised there's so little window space though.

This makes me sad.

I need at least 8 feet of space for my long, super model legs. LOL.

Cool idea and I'd love to visit... but never live there.

That green bean bag chair looks so lonely.

It seems sort of mean to make people live in such confined spaces. The poor little fellow in the drawing seems so very sad.

Cool idea for an art gallery. Living in it would be torture! A bike lane is wider than this place!

Heebie jeebies.

Clever idea, but questionable design. I'd have a lot of windows right up against the edges of the neighbouring buildings, so that there's a sense of space coming in from the outside. I'm also wondering how one sits on a toilet with only 2 feet of space for one's legs.

As for the idea of having "off grid plumbing"... I'd be surprised if the Warsaw planning authorities would go for that.

Still, it'd be interesting to see if it worked. And it's only intended to be a pied a terre for a designer and his friends, not a permanent home.

I feel claustrophobic just looking at this. Get me out of here!

A clear winner for the small uncool contest.

I agree that it's a terrible use of the incredibly limited space. A triangle? What for? Talk about making a bad setup even worse...

I would live there. No, you probably wouldn't have a lot of guests, so if you like to host, it's not for you. In my bachelor days, this would have been awesome.

The only possible quibble for me is the question of fire safety - alternate escape routes? You'd need to get permission to attach a fire escape to one of the adjacent buildings.

on top of everything else, if the bathroom is really that open to the tiny kitchenette and that close I predict many solitary breakfasts in this man's future.

but, I will say that in many parts of europe entertaining is something done much more out of the house than in, so parties might not be a problem for him.

Oh my goodness! I'm in Warsaw right now, and it's only about a fifteen minute walk from where I'm staying - so checking it out in the morning!

FrontPorchPirate and NorNor almost made me pee my pants. In followup, (and to answer irritablevowel's question): maybe there's a pull string on the door?

My heart started to race looking at the pictures. I wanted to get out of there and I wasn't even in it! No thanks!

Looks like an ad for Tampax. I'm just sayin.

Wow, this makes my tiny abode seem palatial, though I do envy the ceiling height. I'd add an escape chute/slide down the back and a teeny tiny rooftop deck for chair and flower pot, just pop out of the skylight for access. More windows too of course.

If it's cheap and in a great location, I'd totally do it, under one condition: I'd need some sort of outdoor space where I could lounge and relax for moments when I feel I need to breath.