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.
Via – Convertiblecity
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Published by Michael March 3rd, 2008 in Uncategorized
78 Comments
March 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !
March 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
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!
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March 4th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
wow! that was awsome! so cool but yet so scary!? i don’t think that’s a good idea.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
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.
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March 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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!
March 5th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Ah. Cool. But…is it up to code? Doubtful.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Hoe eenvoudig een kamer toevoegen aan uw appartement…
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March 6th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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.
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May 6th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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July 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Hi, this looks a great solution, some of our apartments in Prague are small studios and this “additional room” could be a great solution.
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June 18th, 2009 at 1:10 am
What this seems like a cool idea- But it does not look safe or very appealing
I dont the Strata would approve of this type of addition in my building.
Plus I would propbably not like it if my neighbors would put these up.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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