Unfolding Apartment

Almost all studio apartment in over the world are small , so do in Manhattan . In 2005 , Eric Schneider bought an studio apartment sized 400sqft which was basically an open rectangular space and only comes with a tiny kitchen , when he also need a bed room, living room , dinning room . But the space he has was only a small space and not really an enough room to have a real bed room for sleep and living room . But then these small apartment can transform and has 4 rooms in it .

He let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson designed his small apartment. they created an object that’s bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day. It's a a large, blue, oversized cabinet that houses all of the walls, bed, tables, shelving, closets needed for at least 4 full-sized rooms.

The wall can be open up as a desk which is can be functioned as bar also

To create a bedroom, the cabinet door swings out to create a wall dividing the living room from the sleeping area, then the bed folds down revealing a built-in nightstand complete with lighting.

The idea comes from the Japanese sense of space which called as Origami Apartment . And they call this creation as Unfolding Apartment. In my opinion the Origami Apartment help much to save the space and makes your tiny apartment looks bigger also has many rooms inside .

reference :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbxkrmuQ5E