Along the same lines as my last post, here is another article which talks about the switch from traditional homes to smaller living spaces, especially in big cities across the nation and the world. The proposal by the company UpLIFT is to build small sustainable living “pods” out of recycled materials that have a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom squeezed into a container big enough to stick into an elevated parking space; which are commonplace in big cities, such as New York. Here in Salt Lake City, we don’t have this much of a crunch on space, but smaller downtown apartments are getting more and more popular…
Check out the article:
New York City is undergoing a cultural shift away from the automobile, and designers Lawrence Zeroth, Jack Phillips, Brian Schulman and Eugene Lubomir have come up with a clever proposal to transform car lifts into housing pods. Space is at a premium in NYC, and the UpLIFT proposal would ensure that empty parking spaces don’t go unused. The prefabricated panels are made from recycled materials and can be configured to take advantage of the site’s solar access, through drafts and opportunities for rainwater collection.
When space is at a premium, there is only one thing to do, use space more wisely. But how small is too small?
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