Foldable rooms to optimize space in expensive studios
Jaiyant Cavale | Oct 2 2008

If you live in one of the great cities of the world like Paris, Tokyo, New York, or London, you would know that living space doesn’t come cheap. If you want to stay close to the Ginza district in Tokyo or near Champs Elysees in Paris, you would be spending thousands of dollars on a single square foot of rental space. This would mean you are spending a hell lot of money for a very small living space. In order to solve this unique problem of the rich who stay in expensive localities but in studios, the Japanese Company Atelier OPA and designer Toshihiko Suzuki have come up with the Kenchikukagu system.

This unique and cool design is a furniture with architectural functions. It comes with “foldable” rooms that save space and make optimum utilization of what is available. You could have a foldaway modular kitchen, a foldaway guest room and even a foldaway office. Imagine if you could just use the kitchen, room and office all in a tiny studio, and also only when you need. This innovative and functional furniture-architecture design may just be the solution to many of the urban woes. The Kenchikukagu costs $7,500.

Here is a video for you to have a better understanding on how it works.

Via: Complex

(5) Comments Add your Comment

Pretty good idea! I believe in those kind of products!!! Are a lot of years that we study (and sometime we produce ourself or give the projects to other professionals) solution like this for optimize also small spaces. Small Home-Cinemas, in home offices, micro wellness centre for communiities or villas. We study the solutions and after third parts provide the job on site. You can see some our job in our Photo gallery

Again, another interesting link!

That’s a very practical solution for urban space problem.

The foldaway concept is too good. Besides giving you a lot of free space, it saves you the cost of investing on individual items seperately

Very nice, but I would never be able to mount this thing by myself.

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