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Check Out The Winning Design For The Tiny New York Apartments
Of Tomorrow
The winner of a competition to design bite-sized affordable housing in New York has just been announced. To judge by the renderings, it looks pretty
roomy!
By Colin Lecher Posted 01.22.2013 at 5:00 pm

My Micro NY In Winter NYC Mayor's Office

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A lot of New Yorkers are accustomed to closet-like living quarters, which sounds
awful and uncomfortable, right? Doesn't have to be. This winning design from an
NYC architecture competition has some clever ideas for making the most of a bite-
sized apartment.

At less than 400 feet, the winning design of New York's adAPT NYC contest isn't the roomiest spot. But “My Micro NY," as the design is called, still manages to squeeze in some
coveted amenities, including 10-foot-high ceilings and Juliet balconies.

The judges were impressed enough with the proposal to give the team--made up of Monadnock Development LLC, Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, and the firm
nARCHITECTS--the opportunity to create a building, composed of 55 "micro-units." The micro-units will be between 250 and 370 square feet, and 40 percent of them will be
designated for "affordable" housing. It'll even be Manhattan's first multi-unit building made with modular construction.

The secret to developing units that are both tiny and (relatively) comfortable? Shared, multi-purpose spaces. To compensate for a dearth of space in the units themselves, the
architects plan to create communal areas, including a roof garden; lounges; and a ground-floor event space for rehearsals, lectures, and so on. In all, 18 percent of the building's
square footage will be used for shared amenities.

It took a little bit of housing-zone fudging to make it all work. Housing codes don't allow for full micro-unit buildings, but since this is a government-sanctioned project, Mayor
Bloomberg is waiving size and density requirements. My Micro NY, then, will act as a trial run to see if micro-unit housing is viable in the city.

Check out the gallery for a look.

[New York Times]

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13 COMMENTS
esum iw a 01/22/13 at 5:19 pm

www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-01/introducing-tiny-new-york-apartment-future?cmpid=tw 1/4

Well, its obvious to me that the layout is exactly like the slave quarters
here in New Orleans with the addition of indoor plumbing and toilet: one
small room for families to live in with a stove for cooking in one corner
and a pot for a bathroom.

So, the slow decline of home ownership is now turned into living in slave-
quarter like housing.

And why do i keep remembering movies liek 1984 or Metropolis...with the
1% living lavishly above the clouds, and teh rest of us wasting away...

How absolutely depressing.

Link to this com m ent

nkfro 01/22/13 at 5:37 pm
Well then, esumiwa, where in the article was it said that this design is
optimal for all? Don't like it? Don't buy it. This design would suit me well. I
am a tradesman. My time is at a premium and I simply don't care to mow
grass.
Other designers have been building free-standing units of similar design
for years. I can see myself retiring in a unit similar to these.
If you absolutely 'must' be depressed by this concept, you have many, far
more pressing needs to be addressed. Odds are good you'd never find
the time to buy a unit anyway. ;)


Fum m fur 01/22/13 at 6:36 pm
nkfro: Before you let your self righteous fingers type out another defense
for a POPSCI article and lament someone's opinion (as if you have a
correct answer that cannot be contested), please take a look at existing
building code regulations for new apartments in New York. If you do that
you will find that an apartment cannot be zoned by regulation standards if
it is <450 sq ft. The rooms will be between 250 and 375 sq ft. Essentially
the average size of a hotel room or smaller. Nothing like a significant
reduction, 17-50%, in legal regulation size of a dwelling space. Don't be
derogetory and tell us how you are a "tradesman" of a craft unknown and
"simply don't care to mow grass" as if that's all esumiwa is capable of
when he has a valid point on the illegal reduction of living space in NY
which is allowing a 17-50% decrease in size for new apartments. This
being called a fudge by Bloomberg. It's a smear. Slave quarters were of
this size or larger...speaks volumes for someone willing to pay for that as
a casket for their old age.


Trooper Bri 01/22/13 at 6:48 pm
Remove the NYC tag and you have what is likely the future for
overcrowded cities.
I could never live in them, but there are plenty of minimalists that would
embrace these types of modular apartments. Asians would probably love
these too. Coffin sized living quarters are all the rage right now.


01/22/13 at 7:44 pm
Looks like building stackable Lego Homes. Legomes!

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zerox012 01/22/13 at 9:41 pm
I'm sure the rich will find them "trending", and destroy the whole concept.


cs4 01/22/13 at 11:29 pm
To Fummfur and Trooper Bri

You have a problem if you require a coffin that large.


01/23/13 at 12:27 am
love those 5th element apart style ^^ sign me in

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nkfro 01/23/13 at 12:29 am
fumfurr, your approval for me to express my opinion was not sought, was
not required and is completely irrelevant. There is no obligation for me to
defend my trade or myself to you, so shut up and listen for a change.
You might actually learn something once in a while when you remain
silent!
You assume far too much. The design is neither legal nor illegal until the
permitting phase is undertaken. This was a design exercise, not a notice
of intent to build. NYC is NOT the only place in the world with an
unsustainable number of people occupying the same square mile.
There will soon be 6,000,000,000 occupying the face of this planet and
birth control will take a full generation, perhaps even two generations, to
even begin to show a sustainable reduction in population. Are we to
assume that you'll take some of those folks in under your roof?

I didn't think so.

You had better face facts - once rental and privately owned
apartments/condos hit $1000/square foot, ALL hope of a more
reasonable price was pretty much lost. You have three options - go
smaller, go broke, or get out. Common sense seems to be a weak spot
for you, so get out probably isn't an option for you.
I own my 1800 square foot house in AZ. Isure as hell don't need all of that
space living by myself, but you probably do. My lot is approx. 4000 square
feet. A well designed 250 square foot house would be ideal. The
additional unused lot space provides for a lot of options not currently
available.
So you don't agree with my point of view, no big deal. Next time, keep it to
yourself and you won't appear to be such an idiot the next time.


01/23/13 at 5:34 am
nkfro likes the concept, esumiwe hates it. To each his own. The room
shown in the first picture is a deceptive construct. I would say it is
between 400 and 500 sq ft. I would hate to live in one. Faced with nkfro's
African Rover options I would rather ship out, but if I was him I would rather live in
poverty in his place in AZ than in luxury in a sardine can in NY. nkfro's 250
sq. ft. house equals a square of less than 16 ft. Single garages here are
normally 10 by 20 ft.
I would not even buy one of the units as an investment. The chance of
somethings like that becoming a slum is considerable.


Fum m fur 01/23/13 at 6:47 am
Today I learned that nkfro lives in a 1800 sq ft house, approves of
censorship and doesn't understand that I know regulations in NY
because I live here. "1987 new apartments 400 square feet" <----just
google that with NY somewhere in it. I was off by 50ft. I'm sorry. 7%-37%
reduction in code size. Still it's a significant adjustment to standards and
is not legal by code. They should have to change the code before
construction, not after. But I do have a list of questions for you nkfro

(a) Why are you using name calling?

(b) If your job means nothing why mention it?

(c) If you own a house that big why do you care for the construction of
these units and purportedly say "I can see myself retiring in a unit similar
to these"?


(d) Did you know that the world population is now 6,973,738,433 and that
there is still no overcrowding or need for me to house others?

(e) Did you know this was a design contest, not a design exercise, to be
built on a public lot, not because of demand of living quarters, but a need
for affordability?

(f) Did you realize I didn't attack your job but pointed out that you used it to
objectify the original poster?

It's not even that I don't agree with you, you are wrong. This is an erosion
of living standards in my state that shouldn't be tolerated just because it
is cheap. Most have given up hope of buying a house in this state and
losing minimal requirements for apartment square footage is insult to
injury for the youth in our state that can barely keep apartments while
working in excess of 50 hours a week.

I took out my stinger because you attacked a poster for his opinion as if
yours was more right despite owning a "1800 square foot house in AZ".
Why even have an opinion on what goes on here with policy in NY if you're
already that well off? Do you have an investment with this company? I
don't understand how you can even tell another it's really great to do this
when you require that much more property for yourself. I am listening, but
you can't call me names and you can't just say I'm wrong without a
counterpoint. My opinion on this matter is that as a first world country we
should be increasing our living standards, not taking them away for
affordability.

CS4: The whole coffin thing was a joke...because he said he'd like to
retire in one...an analogy to it being cramped if you will.


01/23/13 at 8:04 am
Of my travels to Brazil, there is a gigantic shortage of homes. Of course
part of the problem is 30% or so of the population has no education or
jobs. Still these people are intelligent and do what they can to survive.
Robot These people build their homes anywhere and what I saw many homes
on hillsides; when it rains the homes tumble down with death and
destruction. I like to see a strong, cheap, manufactured homes brought to
the poor people of the world.

Of course, education and jobs always helps too.


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