If I say that a flat with 24 rooms is tiny, you’ll definitely call me crazy. But, the house with 24 rooms in Hong Kong is the tinniest house indeed. Designed by Gary Chang, this space saving house manages to fit 24 rooms in just 344 square feet (32 square meters) of floor space. The idea emerged because of the large family (six members) living in limited space. The idea behind the house is to make everything moving so that the apartment can be easily changed to suit Chang’s desire using sliding wall units and fold away furniture, boasting over 20 different configurations.
Gary Chang, on his astonishing creation, says…
The key idea is that everyone could look into their home more carefully and into how better to optimise their resources, because space is a resource. There is no use making your home as if it is a perfect show flat but at the same time never using the space.
The laundry space is designed with the wall filled with CDs reveal a washing machine and dryer. By sliding another track-mounted metal wall that bears a plasma TV, a kitchen materialized. Beside that, there is a luxurious 1.9-meter bathtub that itself turns into a guest bed. The space available becomes a home theater, spa, kitchen, bedroom, chill-out zone rigged up with a hammock, depending on what Chang needs at any moment. The Swiss army knife-style home even has a steam room and home cinema. The glass shower doubles as a steam room, a 1.9-metre (six feet-three inch) bathtub and a reasonably sized kitchen.
He replaced the flat’s walls with a series of accordion-like sliding units, which are hung from metal tracks on the ceiling. The partitions hide the drawers for clothes, shelves for toiletries and racks for CD and DVD collection. . The flat can be one big studio or a showground of fold-down surfaces, seats and beds. A wall-sized cinema screen can be raised by a remote control to reveal a big, yellow-tinted window which gives an impression of the flat being lit by sunlight. Chang has renovated the flat four times, converting the $45,000 property into luxury home worth $1.3 million.
Via: Reuters/ Design Tavern
