Japanese Narrow Housing
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 28, 2009 00:48 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Cars, Real Estate, Tokyo
An exercise in space management or one of desperation? It looks as though entering both the car and the building will prove challenging, to say nothing of parking.
For those doubting the authenticity of such a dwelling, be assured that they do exist, and it is far from uncommon to see garage doors which close only halfway, with a car bonnet protruding into the street. Presumably access is only by the rear of the vehicle?
And yes, these inherently silly buildings do enjoy a low reputation even amongst the Japanese.
The high cost of idling land in central Tokyo seems to preclude leaving such spots vacant until they can be consolidated with a neighbouring plot, and even with the high rate of rebuilding, it seems two plots coming onto the market close enough to merged into a more viable area is not a common enough event.
Still, it is at least innovative architecture?
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Who knows, maybe it's a 40ft mecha transformed/disguised as a house..
Yep, and the truck is actually optimus prime... robots in disguise!!
Wtf.How the hell, do you get out of the car.
wtf how does he even get into the house when there is no door wait how does he even get into the freakin car? XD
Obviously the car is like those space ship, where the pilot slides down the chute and drive off.
Like any space jet/mecha.
You're all wrong. In fact, if you look closely, there are small rollers under the sides of the building. When the authorities begin to suspect something, the guy just jumps into his car and parks his house in another alley.
I don't think that's a moving house, it won't clear pedestrian clearances...
Reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
Heres a video of a van that parks in a simalar situation, after he parks it he gets out the back of the van and then leaves the door open for the cat so he can sleep in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQdnPecu1SM&e&fmt=18 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQdnPecu1SM&e&fmt=18]
Living in a place like that would be pretty cool for a first appartment for yourself, it even has a garage. I wouldn't mind living in a place like that at all it looks pretty fun, I have a dirtbike instead of a car to get around the city so that garage would be perfect for it.
whoa thats a small house. thats just wrong way to do thing for some people who live that house. its kinda disturbing.
Heh, from where I come from, some people can manage a one square meter by one square meter house. And they're 10 in the family!!!
I wouldn't mind living a building like that, but it's the ones that stick virtually on traffic islands that creep me out...
My guess: the owner (or their kids) squeezes through the fire gap on the side to go in from the back, the garage is remote operated and the owner uses the back hatch to enter and leave the car. That type is surprisingly spacious and rather easy to move through.
at least the japanese doesn't waste anything even land
So, does that mean the side-view mirrors are cast-offable?
Never mind how you get in, how the fuck did they even build the thing? Did they want it to be skinny and built it before the one next to it?
???
It's a definite shop. No way an Asian driver has the skill to back a vehicle into such a narrow space, not to mention doing it on a daily basis.
Lol, I'm so racist against myself, I could be a professional comedian.
there is probably a roll up or sliding door on the side and you can then open the van door once it's ope, get in and drive out. Also, yeah that place is probably bigger than where I live, I'd live there if I could ;).
Umm, a door leading where, precisely? The 3-inch gap between the building and the neighbouring house?
I think there's a house like this in the UK or US. Watch it on TV before..
I've seen worse here...
I know Japanese people are on the whole some of the skinniest people you'll ever meet, but day-amn....
That's a shotgun shack on steel stilts! O_O
the japanese must have invented real portals to get in that thing.
he most have pole that slides right into the car
the car looks shopped.
Yeah it's definitely shopped I mean how the heck would you drive into that place without bumping into the walls?
with a little practice, quite easily.
Never mind the car, how do you get in the house?! Must have some cat flap through that gap on the right..or maybe in through some hole in the roof...hmmm~
The back?
What's probably even sadder is that there's probably a whole family living in there - husband, wife and kids.
i doubt it. more like a college kid or a young couple. that house is an inbetweener you know the house you move in before you realy get started in life.
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/ubic999/1999#5172788895932710210
lol, how do you get in the car? XD maybe there's a passage behind the front seat going to the back car door... hehe
Now you're thinking with portals!
Why not just push it out until the front door is openable?
Clearly there's a hatch above the vehicle that allows the driver to jump from the front window into the driver seat of the car. Ninja or super hero style, whatever you're in the mood for.
or a fireman's pole going straight down into the sunroof!! :)
Lol brad I'm in the mood for ninja
that what got into my mind too!!
and *batman bgm* XD
God, that would be so cool. I can almost imagine the batman theme rolling in my head....
I don't care what you say, there is no possible way the upper portion of that building could be supported by the lower portion.
Shopped.
Not a shop. There's an article about estates like these around the world. Mainly buildings like these are built to insult or annoy their neighbors. However, given how small many modern Japanese houses are, this may have been just because of a space issue.
Brick upon brick. Legit.
Bricks are never involved in Japan... Just interesting patterns on concrete.
A few steel rods, or just plain ferro-concrete, is more than enough.
Lol... i saw a three floored squaters bldg in my country thinner than this... that means a thick two-floor is no problem...
how do you even get out if you are not driving the car? And it looks so easy to shop...
People actually live in these things? No matter how much I look at it, I keep thinking of Tetris.
Maybe thats why japanese people are so awesome at the game - They are living it.
I just had to :P
And yeah, looks a tad to narrow for my taste!
I want to watch the driver back into that garage. He'd need two shoehorns and a tub of K-Y jelly.
the garage looks shopped