MICROFLATS

Stats:

• 250 to 300 square foot apartments
• Mid-rise to high-rise urban infill building
• Anywhere in city
• Minimize parking, fewest allowable per planning code.
• Hybrid between dorm room and loft.
• Rent or sell: below $1000/month or below $200,000 purchase.
• Smart design; clever, modern, hip, fashionable.
• Each to have a very large window.
• Each w/ a plasma screen flat tv monitor.
• Sleeping mezzanines if ht allows.

Amenities:

• 24-hour concierge.
• City-share car rental…building leases out a few cars to residents on a sign-up basis.
• Common area (living room) for micro cinema events
• Live feed to tv cable that is a roof camera so all apts have a great view.

Flexibility:

• Design so future expansion is possible; left, right, up, down into adjacent unit.

Misc:

• Think European urban apts, or Asian urban apts.
• The apartment equivalent of the ‘smart car’
• How would Ikea design and deliver an apartment?
• Will bring together similar types of “urbanites” who will create a sense of community that is positive for the building and attractive to others…will act as a draw…building as a desired destination based on its reputation.
• A partial answer to the high costs of urban dwelling.
• Lease to own?
• Affordable housing without the word ‘affordable’…call it economic housing.
• Worker housing.

Precedent:

• In-law studio apartments all over the city.
• Cities all over the world, except US.
• London..the microflat company.

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MICROFLATS

Stats:

• 250 to 300 square foot apartments
• Mid-rise to high-rise urban infill building
• Anywhere in city
• Minimize parking, fewest allowable per planning code.
• Hybrid between dorm room and loft.
• Rent or sell: below $1000/month or below $200,000 purchase.
• Smart design; clever, modern, hip, fashionable.
• Each to have a very large window.
• Each w/ a plasma screen flat tv monitor.
• Sleeping mezzanines if ht allows.

Amenities:

• 24-hour concierge.
• City-share car rental…building leases out a few cars to residents on a sign-up basis.
• Common area (living room) for micro cinema events
• Live feed to tv cable that is a roof camera so all apts have a great view.

Flexibility:

• Design so future expansion is possible; left, right, up, down into adjacent unit.

Misc:

• Think European urban apts, or Asian urban apts.
• The apartment equivalent of the ‘smart car’
• How would Ikea design and deliver an apartment?
• Will bring together similar types of “urbanites” who will create a sense of community that is positive for the building and attractive to others…will act as a draw…building as a desired destination based on its reputation.
• A partial answer to the high costs of urban dwelling.
• Lease to own?
• Affordable housing without the word ‘affordable’…call it economic housing.
• Worker housing.

Precedent:

• In-law studio apartments all over the city.
• Cities all over the world, except US.
• London..the microflat company.

‍

MICROFLATS

Stats:

• 250 to 300 square foot apartments
• Mid-rise to high-rise urban infill building
• Anywhere in city
• Minimize parking, fewest allowable per planning code.
• Hybrid between dorm room and loft.
• Rent or sell: below $1000/month or below $200,000 purchase.
• Smart design; clever, modern, hip, fashionable.
• Each to have a very large window.
• Each w/ a plasma screen flat tv monitor.
• Sleeping mezzanines if ht allows.

Amenities:

• 24-hour concierge.
• City-share car rental…building leases out a few cars to residents on a sign-up basis.
• Common area (living room) for micro cinema events
• Live feed to tv cable that is a roof camera so all apts have a great view.

Flexibility:

• Design so future expansion is possible; left, right, up, down into adjacent unit.

Misc:

• Think European urban apts, or Asian urban apts.
• The apartment equivalent of the ‘smart car’
• How would Ikea design and deliver an apartment?
• Will bring together similar types of “urbanites” who will create a sense of community that is positive for the building and attractive to others…will act as a draw…building as a desired destination based on its reputation.
• A partial answer to the high costs of urban dwelling.
• Lease to own?
• Affordable housing without the word ‘affordable’…call it economic housing.
• Worker housing.

Precedent:

• In-law studio apartments all over the city.
• Cities all over the world, except US.
• London..the microflat company.

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