'Honeycomb housing'? Barcelona says 'no'
Friday, September 7, 2018 @ 2:34 PM
As a somewhat dubious solution to affordable housing availability, a start-up developer wants to build what it calls a 'beehive block' in Barcelona – eventually extending to Madrid and other European cities including Rome and Copenhagen.
Haibu 4.0 has its sights set on the Sants-Bada neighbourhood and has plans for 'flats' of just three square metres (32.3 square feet).
They would be 2.2 metres (about 7' 2”) long, and 1.2 metres (3'11”) wide and high, meaning any child of about seven years old or over, let alone adults, would not be able to stand up in them.
The idea is that the hexagonal 'tubes', slotted one above the other in the wall in a honeycomb pattern, would contain just a bed, bedside cabinet and a shelf.
Residents would share communal bathrooms, kitchens and lounge-diners.
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