Architecture - Construction - Design - Housing
Mar. 22 Japanese Capsule Houses': The high cost of land on which to build homes in Japan, is giving construction companies a new look at living. One company (Kubota Ltd) appears to have studied the habits of bees and their honeycombs as a way to overcome the problem, and are building what they name Capsule Houses, which are fastened to a 50-meter high tower, with an elevator inside so that the tenants can reach their own capsule. Each tower will have 54 capsule houses attached to it, each capsule home is 4.5 meters wide, 2.4 meters in depth and 2.8 meters high. Each will cost Yan 1, 400, 000 (, 840) Photo shows a single capsule home for a house in the country, attached to a concrete column containing a flight of stairs
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