For the past two weeks (and for another week to come), I’ve been in a uniform serving out my annual obligations to the homeland. In exchange for being away from my computer for a while, I got to be very near all the National Day action.
My eyes are still burning from all the sun and my feet are still aching from too much standing and walking. Worst of all, the only connectivity I’ve had lately has been from the tiny browser on my phone and using a browser on a real computer now is giving me spatial disorientation. No, seriously… I think I need to get my eyes checked after using a 320 × 480 pixel browser for a prolonged period of time.
OK, I think I need to go lie down again.
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Going by anecdotal evidence of the shrinking sizes of HDB flats in the past 20 years or so, future flats in Singapore might end up being no bigger than the combined size of two or three parking lots. (And let’s not get into a discussion about cars in Singapore just yet.)
German designers Robert Schierjott and Ulrich Kohl have seen the future and it consists of a tiny, tiny space for the kitchen. They have designed a modular prototype kitchen unit that takes up only one square metre of floor space. That’s right my friends, 1m² for a functioning kitchen, which leaves maybe about four of five square metres of the flat of the future for your other stuff.
And in that future, you might also only be able to afford (or even allowed) to buy a really small car.
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Dieter Rams’s 620 Chair Program is a comfortable, modular and minimally designed chair system that could be modified into even a sofa system. And it’s quite a thing of timeless beauty, too.
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children, colour, house, kitchen, lego, plastic
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