The Japanese cubicle hotel is well known around the world. Designed as an ultra cheap place to sleep for
business men unable to get home they are set up in most of Japan's night hot spots and business districts.
They are an example what can happen if the idea of compact living is taken to its extreme.
Small capsules are arranged along corridors, they contain a bed on the floor, along with simple amenities
like a light and a pay-per-view TV. Bed clothes are provided by the hotel, making this a hotel in which one
can stay without packing anything at all. It is for this reason the cubicle hotel is so popular with drunken
business men afraid to go home to their wives.
These cubicles do provide a place to sleep for a night, but it is nowhere near inviting enough to serve as a
home on any kind of regular basis. In order to be suitable my living space would have to be far more homely.
The point of the re-design is to make me the space more comfortable, a quality the cubicle hotel clearly lacks.
