3 Meter-Cubed Space

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka and the Schemata Architecture Office have come up with a home design that rethinks just how much space one person needs. 6,000 square feet? 600? Well, try 30 square feet.

The Paco home has a hammock to sleep on, a Japanese-style recessed desk, and a sink, toilet and shower all in a crate that's a 3-meter-cube. It's not intended to replace where you live now, but rather to supplement it. It could be a beach house, a portable office — anything, really, as long as you find a way to lug it into place and hook up the water. Trying to open that hatch-like roof to get in doesn't look like the most comfortable solution, either, though maybe that's a doggy door on the side.

Still, toss some posters on the wall, maybe put a rug down, and you've got yourself a happy little home. Check out the gallery below for more of the Paco house.

On the website there were alot of negative comments and feedback about this design;

It looks like a dumpster.....

Once again, there is no thought spared to those above six foot two hundred pounds. Not only do I have stress my back just to get in my car of the future, but my hamster cage of the future as well

As a whole abruptly, but how such thing in the plane to transport?
It seems to me it is a little bit left unfinished variant...

Although i actually quite like it, its like a transportable studio flat. The fact that every thing about this design is sooooo Japanese like.. "WABI SABI" simple, clean, sharp, hidden away. All essential about living is compacted in there toilet, shower, sleeping space, kitchen...etc. It almost seem like an blank canvas with the initial starts for you... like a coloring book... "here is the pattern/grid now decorate the way you want to".

They even solved the problem of air ventilation without breaking the perfect cube... by making the roof adjustable to open up like a cigarette box. Ingenious... Although i like the idea of such a simple house, I personally would never be able to live inside one, as i prefer cosy messy houses... houses with a history, with its on characters... nothing new... some where other people have once been and left their existence on the walls, floors..etc sounds stalker like but ... a place that has a scar that shows it was once loved by somebody else.