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home | A house that quadecuples
So, quadecuple is probably a real word. Real enough for me to confidently use it in the title of this post. Quad+deca+uple. Meaning 24 times. Google proved that my deductive skills are not crappy, and if Google says it’s a word, it must be, no?
Gary Chang’s apartment in HK can have up to 24 configurations by moving around walls like moving bookshelves. How cool is that? The architect’s house is only 344 sq feet. It’s not a shabby, matchbox studio, it provides full-feature utility like any regular-size house would. The cool factor easily outweighs the hassle to clean up and shift the walls. A small studio is still a small studio? Perhaps.
But also perhaps this could be a great solution for cramped metropolitan areas such as Tokyo or Manhattan. Or the idea could be partially applied to regular housing units as “the changing room”, i.e. walk-in closet + library. You don’t need to change clothes while reading or doing work, they can be mutually excluded.
wine | JAQK
Just found out about this new wine company, JAQK, and even though (obviously) I have no idea how their wine is going to taste, I really like the bottle design. (I’m guessing their wine is going to taste very bold, young and fruity. Californian + catering to hip, younger crowd.)