A Strata Apartment in a Capsule

I’ve already posted a few times about how small apartments are and can get but, small has a different dimension in China.

In Beijing a former engineer has developed the first capsule apartment.

Each dwelling is 2 square meters and just fits a bed, desk and laptop.  There’s no toilet in the apartment or in the building of 8 such apartments. 

Most of the capsule apartments are occupied by poor university students who can rent them for the equivalent of US$35 per month. 

Since property price in China have been rising by at least 11% per year for the last 5 years (making real estate increasingly unaffordable) such low cost accommodation is necessary and popular.

You can see The Age video report on the capsule apartments here.

I’m not sure that these capsule apartments would work here but we’re already seeing students renting sunrooms and balconies to live in.  And, I even heard about some apartments where the second bathroom was being used by student as their bedroom.  So … you never know.

And, at least there’s not a lot of cleaning and you won’t be bothered by visitors.

Francesco …