Print ArticleThe CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization. Here is a brief video of a micro-unit apartment developed by Kent Larson's Changing Places Research Group.
Learn more about CityHome and other innovative urban living research projects at MIT here:
http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/changing-places
So what is a micro-unit apartment? According to policy being considered by the City of Seattle, a micro-apartment cannot:
1. Be larger than 285 sq ft.
2. Have an oven or cooktop.
3. Be without one 120 sq ft kitchen for every eight residents.
4. Have a sink outside the bathroom.
5. Have “no more than 8 micros (or 8 unrelated individuals)…located in a micro dwelling unit.”
6. Have less than one bike parking station per four micro-unit residents.
7. Be built in single family zones.
Any chance that the CityHome or micro-unit apartments find their way to Jacksonville's urban core within the next decade?
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