Interview

Hey guys. This week we need to find a person who work related to or living in a studio apartments.
and to find his or her views and opinion on it.

This person that I chose as an interviewee, is one of my friends who works in Surbana (Architectural Company) located at red hill Singapore. Cintamamat which is not his real name, work in Surbana as an architect assistant. He works in an architectural department. How I contacted him is through facebook and how I interview him is by online messaging through Facebook also.

Cintamamat said that the reason why small studio apartment is being built is because of the elderly. It is to provide shelter to the elderly with barrier free provision. It is built all around the Singapore's housing estate. He said that the idea of building studio apartment began in the mid 90s by the minister of home affairs (Mah Bow Tan) but he was not sure. hahahahahahah. He said that not one department specialize on the design of the studio apartment but the whole Archi department. His view is that it does not benefit the elderly because it is small and expensive. It is like the government is asking the elderly to prepare themselves to live in a smaller space when they go 7ft under. It would be better if they make it more bigger or cheaper or give it for free to the elderly, which is a nice way of paying them back for the hardwork of building up Singapore he said.

His view on the idea of studio apartment is ridiculous and scrap the idea of  building more of it because It is getting smaller and cramp. Also it does not help them much. He will not sell his present house for a studio apartment but if he had no choice he would rather migrate than to buy it.

Case Study

Hi, today i'm going to research on people who transform their tiny apartment into many variety of rooms.
The thing is that we cannot renovate the space of the studio apartment that is given to us. The only thing that we can do is to adapt to the space.

So here is a man call Christian who own's a tiny apartment located at Barcelona's hip born district . He called it the Lego style apartment.  He has only a small space to work with and  he do not like a lot of clutter in his space because he will get annoyed by it. His furniture's is hidden in the walls of his apartment. Which can be pull down or slide out to make a bed, dining table or even a kitchen. He got his inspiration from small boat furniture's reading in magazine and from japan style elements in living. Also when he was young, he would sit on his sofa and surround himself with a lot of pillows and he would feel cozy in them. Which he related to it as a bird nest concept.

To me this idea really works in small spaces and it's a good idea.
but the thing is that. it's a fix furniture. so in terms, it has to be custom made.
to fit in the space.

The knowledge that I've gathered is really beneficial cause it shows that it's possible to save space in a small area.

Here's the video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWaO5TJS00

Causes

Some of the causes that studio apartment is being built is that the population is increasing and there is much need for shelter. Other than that the plot of  land is to small and they have to adapt and design within the area. So maybe that's the reason why studio apartment is being built that way. Sometimes you can see the pillars of the building popping out from the walls which make the room even smaller. So one quarter of the room is occupied by pillars.

The other reason why the space is too small. Is because of the human nature. You know sometimes it is just our habit that we are just to lazy to clean up our stuff. We always stated that we are going to clean up the mess later. But the later will become hours, days or even maybe months. Then it would cause a limited space in the room and the room would get smaller and smaller. In the other hand maybe the person is just too busy to do the cleaning. Well you know, maybe he has to much projects to handle and to occupied in finishing his work. until he just forgot to do it.

















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