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Kinda cool...

http://designtaxi.com/news/352743/Japanese-Architects-Create-Apartment-Building-For-Bikers/ (http://designtaxi.com/news/352743/Japanese-Architects-Create-Apartment-Building-For-Bikers/)

(http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-bikeapt1109/6.jpg)

Nice  [thumbsup]

Interesting idea, except that if someone walks in the front door while you're taking a shit, or in the shower, it won't be too pleasant.

Or if you got a new Panigale in there and you doin something else in the shower or on the crapper! ;D :o

Lets see... shitter, washing machine, room for a cot, probably a shower down there...

If you throw in a stove, fridge, and sink, you wouldn't even need the upstairs

There's more to the apartment than just the picture I posted. I couldn't find a concise picture of the concept other than the model, but that didn't do it justice.

I personally don't like the washer and dryer being on different levels...I also think that the integrated kitchen sink and stove unit( while very neat and clean in a Scandinavian and cool architetural way) is not practical...this is for a single person that eats out alot...and given that space is at a premium in Japan...I would see this is a very expensive unit to boot....


cool concept though...

I think you're seeing several different apartment layouts.

but as a single person or a couple. this is nice  [thumbsup]
and the toilet on the same level as the bike... who knew you could view your bike porn in the appropriate place

Single person? Or couple?
A family of four can live in a 30 square meters apartment in Tokyo ;D
Seen that, and that is not even cheap.
That, or you get a slightly bigger one, but you commute 2h/day each way to get to work in the center.

I think I might go crazy in 1h in living in a 30 sqm apartment, in two, with a chick.  Can't even imagine in four.

I think you'd be fine in that amount of living space if that's the culture you grew up in. After thinking about it, the laundry appliances are mostly likely all-in-one that do both washing and drying.

Yep - lots of folks, most of the world have a lot fewer square feet/meters per person in a residence than the US. If that's what you are accustomed to then in won't be such a strain.

Places like that, super mod and clean always look good when you don't have shit...

Have you ever tried to carry a load (laundry,groceries,luggage) up or down a spiral staircase?  [thumbsdown]

Cool idea, but far from practical.  It looks more like a Zombie Survival Apartment then an everyday home  ;D

this is Japan we're talking about, you're describing "foreplay"

 [laugh]

but you're talking about a culture that eats day to day groceries, like here in Germany. You go to the market on the way home pick up fresh foods, go home cook.
You don't have a freezer full of junk food from six months ago like in the U.S.

Well,I guess I am looking at it from a "Super-sized" Americans point of view.  [laugh]

you aren't the only one, hence some of my comments...

That must suck having to go to the grocery every day. 

We keep a lot of fresh foods around, and go to the market twice a week and that seems like a lot.

We cook every night, leftovers are gone for lunch the next day...

In japan they have a very high rate of single person because the all the girls want to have a handsome husband who make at least 60K a year. The problem is that nobody does  !! 

Now, they Even tinking about lowering  the income taxes on people how are "uglier"   :o  to make it  more interesting for girls to get in a relationship whit them.

that just my cultural note    [laugh] [popcorn]

Are they gonna have a committee?  Or a Judge?  Gonna be a lot of people checking the "Ugly" Box on their taxes to save some money.  I know I would...

There's a German couple in the village 2 down from ours. Everyday they walk together at 8am precisely to the market arm in arm with a wicker basket. Rain or shine. The couple is in their 70s at least. My wife and I see them as our inspiration to get through tough times.
Sometimes it isn't about the market, but the journey to it ;)

That's a nice image.

Seems like good time wasted though, he could send her to the market and go to the strip club.

it needs an old school batman style turntable in the entryway so you can pull in, and get off, and watch your bike spin around so you can go straight out to pick up the ladies

One in the pic had a straight stair case, I'm thinking trials bike.....friday night.....couple of [drink] and saying to your mates......reckon you can make it to the top floor? Nothing like the smell of two-stroke wafting through your apartment to kick off shenanigans! 

I think I recall they where tinking about a scoring sheet  [laugh] whit some criteria like high and muscle mass etc...  this is serious stuff ;D

Exactly!

I like the design.  I could live there... of course, I'd have to get rid of a bunch of junk first but after that I could live there!  ;)

do they weigh things like sense of humor? I'm told that girls like that over a well toned body... [laugh]

Probably .. For me, sense of humor work's fine  [laugh]  that ....and picking up the dirty sock's  too is important [laugh]

good thing i'm nto filling out a tax reduction form in MTL.

I'm imaging questions like "do you leave the seat up or down?" and "you want a sandwich. Do you ask your female companion to make you one, do you make one for yourself, or do you make one for both of you just in case she's hungry?"

japan is becoming an internet compatibility test!

Are you for serious? Are you referring to Japan as a whole? Because I would've thought that most people in Tokyo would make more than $60k per year or else they couldn't even reside there. And that income tax adjustment is also a crazy concept!

Price per sqf in many areas of Tokyo, are higher than Manhattan.
So to live there you have to bring home large chunks of cash.  Many do work in Tokyo, but live way out, and spend hours a day in the train to get in/out of Tokyo.
About chicks looking for rich husbands, this post always comes to my mind:

http://www.snopes.com/love/dating/golddigger.asp (http://www.snopes.com/love/dating/golddigger.asp)

A hero!  ;D

Yess I was really serious ... I 'm still looking for the article ... :)

http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/japon-un-impot-sur-les-beaux-25-04-2012-1455226_24.php (http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/japon-un-impot-sur-les-beaux-25-04-2012-1455226_24.php)

There is a very big difference between a university professor / economist (Takuro Morinaga (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuro_Morinaga)) who likes to appear on variety shows on TV, dreaming up this idea of a "taxe sur les beaux" (or tax on the good-looking) to make himself sound interesting on TV, and actual policy makers suggesting the introduction of such a tax.

This will never happen in Japan, although it would be interesting to see them try to come up with the criteria :)

PS: The absolute average income in Tokyo (as in Tokyo prefecture/metropolis) is around 6m JPY, which is roughly 75k USD at the current exchange rates.

thanks DUCATIZ ,  [bow_down] [thumbsup] [popcorn] your genuis

Soooo... where are the vending machines with beer and smokes (<--favorite part of japan).

My take on the culture, a lot of the males are pressured to move out get a place to live then find a mate. Where as the women live at home, able to save a ton of money and now have the control of who they date, cause they have the money and make the choice.

est preéferable si l'on comprend francaise....

New York needs a place like this.  I've been through 3 different apartments in 3 years trying to find a suitable garage.  The best I've been able to do is a damp garage built into a hill with a ceiling that's falling apart and a load of junk that the landlord won't let me throw out.  I'd move to a place like this in an instant.  Wonder what the rent is in Tokyo.

glad i read this far.....this was my comment as well.