Switch flat Tokyo: mobile walls transform home into office | Tokyo
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To avoid paying Tokyo rents for office space, architect Yuko Shibata created moving walls that allow her to switch between home and office. At the equivalent cost of 3 months of office rental, or about $7000, Shibata created a morphing home/office she calls “Switch”. Inspired by fusuma, the sliding paper screens used to divide rooms in traditional Japanese homes, Shibata created sliding bookshelves to divide and transform the rooms. One partition wall, weighing 750 kilograms (1450 pounds), moves easily on rollers switching the main space from dining room into a meeting room plus separate library. To open up her study and bedroom, she cut a hole in the wall and installed another mobile bookshelf wall that pivots out to create a two-room workspace/library plus a partitioned bedroom. By leaving the structural walls and plumbing intact, the project was very affordable while extending the functional space. yukoshibata.com Original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/switch-flat-tokyo-mobile-walls-transform-home-intofice/
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personal thought: all the additional partitions are badly designed, it is huge place sadly the added partition made it awkward. for example that little gap between bed and work desk, it's basically useless. you can open up the library by pushing the bookshelves from the workspace room, without having to pass by the bedroom. And that window that function as door (?) between two workspace, why don't make the hole touch the floor so it function as door if you're gonna walk through it lot of time? awkward.
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I love my country !
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she's adorable
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cool and playfull i think
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an Apple computer in every room! what's the point? to show off how much money you have? the new MacBooks, iPhones and their computers are only getting more expensive.
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I have a problem with conventional home designs.
Firstly, bedrooms are, as Chef Alton Brown says, "uni-taskers". Bedrooms normally unused 16 hours a day. And, when being used, you're passed out during those 8 hours. So, I feel, a bedroom should be convertible into a dual-purpose, be it a home theater or office.
Interior walls should be dynamic, too. Walls, doors, and clothing closets would be on casters, so rooms can be quickly, easily resized on immediate need, lifestyle change, or whimsy. In other words, a home would be an open space with all the interior walls and doors being modular. Heck, with an "elevated floor", as typically seen in computer facilities, one could even rerun plumbing, too. -
wonderful house
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this is what happens when a rich girl with too much money tries to be chic hipster designer. too much time on her hands.
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her apartment is huge tho... if you take out all those extra walls and maybe have 1 office instead of two then it's be much nice. That huge moveable wall does nothing for the apartment except for making the biggest room smaller
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love your channel.
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liblaly space and dining loom
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She speakers slower in English than Japanese. Does not seems stable the way it wobble as she moves it. It's 2016 audio, video, and books are all digital. A library is not needed anymore. Save a tree.
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Her Pages of Walls... Are as Her Book-Cover... For Books. -gilpin 8-10-16
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Wow not only is her English impeccable compared to the white girl documenting her place, but her place is like... Really big for Tokyo
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so bored
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Pretty upscale urbanite apt. to begin with. No?
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who is searching Orthogonal transformation of moving grid model then they brought you here?
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thats a massive home in tokyo
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I like all the storage and shelving space. I think 'if kids or animals are in this family's future, 'either will love all the cubby holes and 'explorable elements of this design. I can just imagine the 'brain evolution of any of this women's children; 'they'd all become engineers!!!!!!
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I get it. It took me a while. She works from home. She likes to distinguish between live and work space. Live work space is a concept here in the US, as well. Also, when she has casual guests or family the space should be different than when she has work related guests. So personal areas become inaccessible when work professionals are there (closed doors, partitions, etc.).