Comments on: The Microflat http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/ Contemporary Modern Architecture Furniture Lighting Interior Design Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: alisa http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-417 alisa Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:02:25 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-417 This is a great idea with such a good use of space. I do not see anything antisocial about this and what is all the talk about development for profit or not being able to express oneself...so people can only express themselves in spaces the size of mansions? This is a very smart use of space with so much light exposure This is a great idea with such a good use of space. I do not see anything antisocial about this and what is all the talk about development for profit or not being able to express oneself…so people can only express themselves in spaces the size of mansions?

This is a very smart use of space with so much light exposure

]]> By: tony http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-291 tony Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:50:16 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-291 Yes, I'm sure modular living spaces are nothing new though. This is a proposal by a firm, which doesn't have the constraints of "originality" that often encumbrs thesis projects. I actually find the idea of low-cost, small spaces with real form and function extremely interesting and MUCH more pertinent than extravagant design exercises, contrary to what Kaye said above. Low-income housing in a necessity now more than ever in today's world for obvious reasons. Let's green it up and make it well-designed, not preach idealistic and trite design mantras. Yes, I’m sure modular living spaces are nothing new though. This is a proposal by a firm, which doesn’t have the constraints of “originality” that often encumbrs thesis projects.

I actually find the idea of low-cost, small spaces with real form and function extremely interesting and MUCH more pertinent than extravagant design exercises, contrary to what Kaye said above. Low-income housing in a necessity now more than ever in today’s world for obvious reasons. Let’s green it up and make it well-designed, not preach idealistic and trite design mantras.

]]> By: sv?tlana milotová http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-245 sv?tlana milotová Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:34:27 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-245 ..Still nice after years...but it had bigger success three years ago..when me and my colleague were graduaded with actually the same project. We won competition of living in space of modular systems with this idea.. With best regards Sv?tlana Milotová swjetla@seznam.cz Thomas Bata University in Zlín Faculty of Multimedia Communications Department Of Product Design 3D design Czech republic ..Still nice after years…but it had bigger success three years ago..when me and my colleague were graduaded with actually the same project. We won competition of living in space of modular systems with this idea..

With best regards

Sv?tlana Milotová

swjetla@seznam.cz

Thomas Bata University in Zlín
Faculty of Multimedia Communications
Department Of Product Design
3D design
Czech republic

]]> By: Dave http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-213 Dave Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:43:21 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-213 I think it's excellent. What makes it low quality? Certainly not the architecture. What makes it anti-social? If anything, it's more social because it allows more people to live close together. This is housing for everyday people. Do you realize how expensive real estate is in London? Developments like this allow average income people to be able to live in the city. I think it’s excellent.

What makes it low quality? Certainly not the architecture.

What makes it anti-social? If anything, it’s more social because it allows more people to live close together.

This is housing for everyday people. Do you realize how expensive real estate is in London? Developments like this allow average income people to be able to live in the city.

]]> By: Kaye http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-212 Kaye Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:08 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-212 Isn't it a shame that developers can get away with this flagrant production of low quality, anti-social housing simply by giving it the label of being contempory. Housing is for people not for profit. Lets hope our fate is better than that of a battery hen, and that we have living spaces that allow us to move around and to express ourselves. Isn’t it a shame that developers can get away with this flagrant production of low quality, anti-social housing simply by giving it the label of being contempory.

Housing is for people not for profit.

Lets hope our fate is better than that of a battery hen, and that we have living spaces that allow us to move around and to express ourselves.

]]> By: TSL http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-205 TSL Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:07:27 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-205 http://www.themicroflatcompany.com/HTML/main_fset.htm Nevermind... Found it! http://www.themicroflatcompany.com/HTML/main_fset.htm

Nevermind… Found it!

]]> By: TSL http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-204 TSL Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:04:24 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-204 Any interior views available? How "micro" is "micro"? Any interior views available? How “micro” is “micro”?

]]> By: Yusuf C http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-184 Yusuf C Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:34:19 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-184 If its Real ! then its really Gr8 and Innovative, and Creative too ! If its Real ! then its really Gr8 and Innovative, and Creative too !

]]> By: EddieStarr http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-183 EddieStarr Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:37:40 +0000 http://www.contemporist.com/2007/11/30/the-microflat/#comment-183 Great Concept, how green is it for real? Great Concept, how green is it for real?

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