I think it may be because while it saves space - it doesn't allow for roommate living which would cut down on most of the cost of owning it. Most people I met in Japan lived either with their family or with roommates (of course there were exceptions).
Although, I have to say, that house is pretty rockin'
DUDE I want to be rotated inside the damn tube. That'd be awesome.
Although I think, perhaps if the roommates had two different...wait, no - schedules wouldn't cut it. What if the person needed the bathroom and they were stuck inside?
But it'll never be legal for the cylinder to move while someone is sleeping in another compartment. Suppose it gets stuck, or they're having medical problems? Saftey requirements will dictate that there only be one occupant per cylinder module.
...And if there's two separate cylinders, the apartment rents for more money, as each room has it's own kitchen and bathroom.
In America, maybe, but I don't know if safety things would be the same in Japan. Also there must be some cool emergency exit. A trapdoor. Something. ...actually why couldn't there be a window on the wall-side of the tube?
Then again, as much as it pains me to say this, it doesn't have to move if I combine two ideas from before. Two openings, one on either side to each bedroom, and then each bedroom has a door to the bathroom. But if you do it THAT way it doesn't actually need to be a rotating tube at all, which. No good.
If it's two separate cylinders, though, it's not really one apartment, is it? It's two teeny apartments with a common room. Might as well just have a bunch at once, six tubes encircling one living room, the occupants coming out to flip the switch and then popping into their next room. Like a multidimensional capsule hotel.
DUDE ME TOO and two holes would work if the cylinder was pulled out enough to have that much circumference exposed! Although I guess if you put one in each side right next to the wall instead of having one big one in the center you don't need that much.
Let's build one of these in Kyoto and live together.
...wait. Two holes wouldn't work. Because if you have two people sleeping and one bathroom that needs to be accessible to both, you need to be able to get out of either bedroom and into the bathroom. That means having all three open.
Either that, or rotating the tube from the inside while the other person is still asleep. In it. While it's rotating.
Either that or just putting a door between each bedroom and the bathroom, but that's the easy way out.
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Date: 2006-07-22 11:28 am (UTC)Also more than half the people said no when asked to live in it over at
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Date: 2006-07-22 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-22 05:48 pm (UTC)Although, I have to say, that house is pretty rockin'
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Date: 2006-07-22 05:55 pm (UTC)...but then you would have to rotate the tube with someone in it, and that definitely creates entry/exit problems. HMM.
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Date: 2006-07-22 06:19 pm (UTC)Although I think, perhaps if the roommates had two different...wait, no - schedules wouldn't cut it. What if the person needed the bathroom and they were stuck inside?
:O I KNOW! CUT TWO HOLES.
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Date: 2006-07-22 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-22 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 12:05 am (UTC)...And if there's two separate cylinders, the apartment rents for more money, as each room has it's own kitchen and bathroom.
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Date: 2006-07-23 02:39 am (UTC)Then again, as much as it pains me to say this, it doesn't have to move if I combine two ideas from before. Two openings, one on either side to each bedroom, and then each bedroom has a door to the bathroom. But if you do it THAT way it doesn't actually need to be a rotating tube at all, which. No good.
If it's two separate cylinders, though, it's not really one apartment, is it? It's two teeny apartments with a common room. Might as well just have a bunch at once, six tubes encircling one living room, the occupants coming out to flip the switch and then popping into their next room. Like a multidimensional capsule hotel.
Incidentally, hello!
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Date: 2006-07-22 10:13 pm (UTC)Let's build one of these in Kyoto and live together.
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Date: 2006-07-22 10:18 pm (UTC)Either that, or rotating the tube from the inside while the other person is still asleep. In it. While it's rotating.
Either that or just putting a door between each bedroom and the bathroom, but that's the easy way out.