The World’s Thinnest House
October 25, 2012
At only 4 feet wide, this house is the thinnest house around. Located in Warsaw, it comes fully equipped with a small kitchen, bathroom, sleeping area/office, and a bean bag for a couch. Pictures of the outside and assembly can be found here.
Yahoo Homes explains the idea behind the house:
“Architect Jakub Szczesny of the Polish firm Centrala built this as a working studio for Israeli writer Etgar Keret, and other artists are expected to stay here as well. The Keret Home, as a sign on the front door declares it, is technically considered an art installation.
The PR agency representing the project told me that Keret will be “host” of the home for three years but “won’t live there permanently. He will drop in from time to time, invite guests, create, etc.”
Keret considers the home “kind of a memorial to my family,” the AP reported. His parents survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland, but their families were wiped out. In Tablet, a Jewish online magazine, Keret wrote about how his father managed: “During World War II, my dad, his parents, and some other people hid in a hole in the ground in a Polish town for almost 600 days. The hole was so small that they couldn’t stand or lie down in it, only sit. When the Russians liberated the area, they had to carry my father and my grandparents out, because they couldn’t move on their own.”
A great story of art imitating life.
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Question… How is one getting to said bean bag couch? Levitation? Unless the ladder slides across the wall, and then you climb down to the bean bag…. Which would be both fun, and scary. Ladder malfunction would mean a long fall and a visit to the ER.
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Apparently the stairs fold up, Amy. I guess they become a flat surface, and part of the floor.
Your way sounds more fun, though.