Add an epiphany toilet next to that bathtub, and I'm sold.

It reminds me of the hookers in Amsterdam. Maybe you go up a level every time you request something weird. Definitely don't want to go to that top level.

It's cool and depressing at the same time. It's like living in stacked U-Haul trailers.

I'd leterally buy that for a dollar, any more and it is not worth it.

I've seen better uses for an alley...

[en.wikipedia.org]

Find the word 'Popcorn' and you'll see what I'm talking about.

its like somekinda Bruce Lee 8 levels of death home game

I'd rather have a palacial estate in SixthToe Arkansas than live in that over-priced, over-glorified shoebox.

Of course... I live in DC, so I just made a completely hypocritical comment. But, I'm getting out if the rat-race one day! I'm selling my shoebox/condo and LEAVING... I swear!

This is pretty hot.

I can definitely see this being a way of rethinking luxury living without having a big impact on an environment. It reminds me of the railroad style apartments in Brooklyn.

I'd live like this. I like the idea of micro living. I'd want a fireman's pole and I'd move the stairs to the back.

Where's the fire escape?

You know, I was just thinking to myself the other day "what we really need in big cities is less open space and more high-priced, minuscule, reptile-house styled apartments", and TA-DA!

Or... you could.... move out of the city, perhaps?

Why anyone would want to cram themselves in with OTHER people is beyond me. There's still plenty of space out there.

so living in a box in an alley is new? I keeed, I keeed.

Can anyone say "Fifth Element"? It's just like the block where Cobin Dallas lived. Wow, Luc Beson, you're a futurist!

I was kind of diggin' it. Fun. Funky. Inventive. That is, until I went to the link and saw just where they had placed the toilet...shoved up next to the bed, inches away from your pillow. Umm, no.
[www.archinect.com]
For whatever reason the photo won't embed, so hit the link above.

@bosskev: Making it by far the best college dorm style.

I have friends in NY who live in an apartment about the square footage of my closets. I am not streamlined enough to give up that kind of space. All what youre used to I guess.

Throw in some more beds and hot chicks...
looks like someone ripped the face off a Amsterdam whorehouse.

@bosskev: ever been awakened by the sudden urge to pee? Now just some good aiming and you're back to sleep.

@kahri: "ever been awakened by the sudden urge to pee?"
Well, sure. Isn't that what mattress pads are for?

SO sorry for that one! Apologies to all.

Looks awesome, but kinda dangerous. Imagine getting out of the tub, and slipping on soap. That would be a hard fall

To everyone who says that this micro living looks neat... WHATEVER.

It gets old when you do it day after day after day after day after day...

And you realize how much you pay for a place that shrinks exponentially if you bring in anything that wasn't there before hand.

How did they get the furniture up to those higher levels? I'm guessing the couch and bed were not carried up that spiral staircase. Was the furniture placed in during construction? If so, what happens if you want to update your furniture? (New slip cover for the couch perhaps?) And what happens if just a year or so down the road one of your neighboring buildings (aka one of your walls) should be slated for demolition?

Part of me likes this idea, but I just don't think it has been very well thought out.

:[

@Munch:

I like the train station in Wheaton, kinda Richardsonian Romanesque in style. It says it was rebuilt and I wonder what the original looked like.

@lillian27:
Eh! Darn link. How about this:

[en.wikipedia.org]

what a horrible place to live

Make the lowest level a tunnel for cars & trucks and this could work (if building codes aren't violated with this and/or adjacent buildings).

I suppose that it could always be the 'downtown place' - y'know the one that supplements the country home with stables. You stay here three weeknights every week and then go to the other place when claustrophobia sinks in - saves on the 90-minute commute everyday i guess.... you could probably clean the entire place from top bottom in a few hours... nice to be walking distance to good currys, thai, and nightlife..
((sorry - i am reaching -- it does kinda make me want to give up my will to live))

Wow, and I thought those Japanese pod hotels were bad.

It's an interesting idea. I can see this in third world cities in the coming decades, hell even here in La, New york or Miami. Gibsonesque shanty towns filling up all the cracks and available spaces; stacking to fill the areas that others have abandoned.

Micro living is a cool concept, but i agree with most of the other commentors - It takes some getting used to, and definetley isn't for everyone.

@designguybrown: Kind of like those pod hotels the Japanese use... all the comforts of home, in a 6 X 3 box.

Or,if you're more the traditional type:
[www.thelittlehouse.ca]

@lillian27: Crap. Maybe that's why they rebuilt it, lol.

@The_Duck: The glass doors swing open. Look at the pics of it on the site it came from.

Since I don't need a workspace, and one floor is already a living room, I'd use the street level room as a garage for the car.

Alleyways usually have a function, that's why they're there. Now how're the garbage trucks going to pick up that garbage?

@allstarecho: "...I'd use the street level room as a garage for the car."

Motorcycle, maybe. At 7'10" wide, even if you could get your car to squeeze in without scraping your mirrors, you probably wouldn't be able to open the car door for entry/exit. Unless your car's a convertible, in which case you could just scramble across the hood and flop over the dashboard...in full, laughable view of everybody.

uhh. there's an unenclosed shower in the bedroom, right next to the TOILET

@Munch: That's about 90 seconds you owe me, Munch. I'm gonna go ahead and start a tab.

hmmm... I think one of the reasons for having alleys is that the space helps slow the spread of fire from one building to the next.

@SuperCollider: Dude - It took you 90 seconds to click a link, hit CTRL F, type the word 'popcorn' and read 50 words? That 90 seconds you wasted should be the least of your concerns, man

Oh, c'mon, Munch, be a sport with SuperCollider. It's only a whine tab.

Glad none of you guys like it. More for me!

I happen to be in love. The first floor should be some kinda bike/motorcycle/vespa parking mixed with a bathroom though. Drive in, pee, go upstairs to the fun.

I'd get curtains, and to h#11 with the architect's sensibility. That place would definitely be getting curtains.