Located between art and architecture, the backpack house is a walk-in sculpture with their own spatial quality: a floating, lighted room, as a temporary scaffolding and a “minimal sculpture” also appears. Universally used as a mini-backpack, this house adds extra space at the front of each residential building attached. The design consists of a welded steel cabin, using steel cables on the roof or on the facade of the existing house is attached. The sculpture consists of a cube-made element with the dimensions width 2.50 m, 2.50 m in height and 3.60 m deep. The height of the top floor of the cube element is approximately 10.50 m, and the total weight of the sculpture is approximately 2.0 t. In conclusion if you want an extra room for your apartment this might be a great idea to take in consideration.
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Published by Michael March 3rd, 2008 in Architecture
Tags: additional room, apartment, backpack house
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Special but its Obsession
NO! That’s really scary! Hope whose chains are strong…
This is the most brilliant sexy concept I’ve seen in years. I wonder how much red take they have to go through to tack one of these on.
Seems like an overinvestment in an apartment. Also of questionable wisdom, structurally speaking.
very different idea.
Do ya have the courage to step inside that room?
umm.. swastika much?
Interesting idea but what landlord is going to let you drill holes / weld a giant box to the side of their building?
Looks uncomfortable to live in.. I wonder how stable it is…
Hahaha, it’s from a german site too, that has to be intentional.
Zoning and CC&R laws would never permit this to be viable on a large scale :).
what about the poor sob’s below who lose all their light?
Partially inspired by Robert Heinlein’s short story “And he built a crooked house”, perhaps?
Holy sh*t ! That is scary
LOVE IT!
Too bad for the people next door that get extra shadow/blocked view
Wow…I am guessing that the amount of freaky stuff you can do is limited in this one though…
Id be pissed to be a neighbour and have my view obstructed by an ugly looking cube
Why are the windows arranged like a swastika?
I wonder if the neighbors mind having an extra room tacked on above or below them. Furthermore, doesn’t it obstruct views for the other tenants. Plus seems like a waste of money.
Now where am I gonna get curtains for those windows…?
that thing is heinous. i’m hoping this is a joke.
lol omg i feel sorry for the owner wen a earthquake happens in that area =[
OMG I am so getting one now! Hot poop!
I love this thing so much. I can totally feel how good it will be when I double the size of my space!! Room for a second bath! GOD! YES!
O wow. It really IS a swastika. HA HA
There is no way a giant hanging swastika could pass addon zoning laws.
Look! That building has a tumor!
Only a partial swastika, and yes I would sleep in that sucker every night. And even glass bottom that for the voyeur value.
That’s funny
Looks like it’s 90% sculpture, 10% a place to store your bike
Cool idea, is it safe though?
Hi,
That’s a neat idea, as long as it doesn’t fall.
In terms of exterior aesthetics, it won’t always work.
And of course that in some countries, in less than 10 minutes you’ll be paying a couple of fines and taxes
Jose
For those who mentioned it, thats not a swastika. The swastika is flipped the other way. What is does resemble is an Indian and chinese religious symbol
Nice… until blacky comes along and shoots out those strings.
The room is also attached with 4 giant bolts, 1 at each corner. Nonetheless, this is awesome! As creative as it is, I would love to see how it is furnished.
Great idea, as long as you don’t have enemies, and you don’t stay up nights worrying about who has access to the roof.
lol @ Jes… i see it too
So ok it only looks like a swastika to the people INSIDE.
HA HA
Nice uh Swastika.
At least it is reverse.
Its hard enough to get landlords to let you install a satellite dish, and that you have a legal right to do. Good luck with the giant box hanging by cables idea.
Nice. The question however - was it confirmed with the local council?
That must be a joke surely, it can’t possibly be legal. What if everyone else in the block wanted one too?
Swastika much???
That’s stretching it a bit wouldn’t ya think?
Society is failing faster and faster folks…..gonna do anything to save yourself?
I’d bet money know landlord or city official would ever let that go up on the side of an apartment building
….definitely nifty though…
I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !
Like others have said, its a box attached to a wall via cables. I don’t know if I would really trust even walking in that thing!
wow! that was awsome! so cool but yet so scary!? i don’t think that’s a good idea.
If you need more room in your apartment you could always get one of those bunkbeds with the bed on top and desk/storage underneath. Voilà! Of course, I wouldn’t want to be under either one if they came crashing down on top of me.
Oh my, I wouldn’t let even let my cat risk it’s life in that nazi doom chamber! Unless I lived on the first floor or something. But something tells me that if it was on the 1st floor, the swastika might be something of an issue with the neighborhood folks.
Other than it looks like a parasite growing from the building
and its designer needs to clean the screen on his crack pipe
I don’t have a problem with it.
The things 12 year olds come up with!
Ah. Cool. But…is it up to code? Doubtful.
First of all, it doesn’t have a swatika shape. It is similar, true, but you’re just jumping to conclusions.
Secondly, Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. An ancient symbol, it occurs mainly in the cultures that are in modern day India and the surrounding area, sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol. It has long been widely used in major world religions such as Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, Buddhism and Jainism.
It saddens me that once a single negative stigma is attached to an item, people choose to only see that one reference and nothing else. It speaks poorly of our entire society that many people cannot mature past that reference.
How the heck do you get into the stinking thing? Crawl through your window? thats convenient. I couldn’t even get my bike through most windows. Stupid idea.
Hi, just popped in here through a random link. Hi, firstly I’d like to say your site is great and very impressive. Enjoyed the reading. ,
Hi, this looks a great solution, some of our apartments in Prague are small studios and this “additional room” could be a great solution.