{"id":3856,"date":"2009-03-21T06:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2009-03-22T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T15:50:42","slug":"hmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/03\/hmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3857\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/03\/hmm\/bikersapt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg?fit=938%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"938,469\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bikers&amp;#8217; Apartment\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg?fit=938%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg?resize=500%2C250\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bikers' Apartment\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg?w=938&amp;ssl=1 938w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bikersapt.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A somewhat typical view of a Bikers&#8217; Apartment<!--more-->&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is in Tokyo, so the building is on a small piece of land. Each apartment unit therefore needs to adopt a three-tiered floor plan (eat-in kitchen\/2nd fl, bedroom\/3rd fl) for the building to accommodate as many motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>The ground floor of each apartment is of course reserved for a tenant&#8217;s motorcycle. Many who live in big cities are willing to sacrifice the size of their bathrooms, so in this case, a small bathroom will be placed behind the spot reserved for the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that the bathroom and the rest of the space for the motorcycle are separated with a glass partition and glass door &#8211; a popular design scheme these days. It&#8217;s to keep the small space look bigger&#8230; of course&#8230; but a toilet and a motorcycle in the same picture?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there are some other reasons for this design to be so popular.<\/p>\n<p>(click on the image to view it bigger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat typical view of a Bikers&#8217; Apartment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-architecture-for-motorcycles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hmm... - WHAT WE DO IS SECRET<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/03\/hmm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hmm... - WHAT WE DO IS SECRET\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A somewhat typical view of a Bikers&#8217; 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This simple box designed to accommodate a motorcycle and its owner has only 7.5 tsubo (1 tsubo is about 35.5 square feet) of footprint area. \"Nana-han\" normally refers to a motorcycle with a 750cc engine, which is consider quite big in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5957,"url":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/12\/samurai-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":3856,"position":3},"title":"Samurai House","author":"Carlos K","date":"December 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This house was designed around the owner's \"Katana,\" a popular motorcycle model, which used to be manufactured by Suzuki. Katana means a long sword, samurais' best friend. The house with only 263 square feet of footprint area stands like an elegant and dignified samurai in the middle of Tokyo. \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3844,"url":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/03\/rent\/","url_meta":{"origin":3856,"position":4},"title":"Rent","author":"Carlos K","date":"March 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A few people asked us about the rents of these \"Bikers' Apartments\" in Tokyo. The rent of an apartment unit where you can keep a motorcycle inside ranges from $800 to $1700 a month. The more you pay the fancier and more convenient it gets. Currently these units are available:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3537,"url":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/03\/ne-apartment\/","url_meta":{"origin":3856,"position":5},"title":"NE Apartment (for bikers)","author":"Carlos K","date":"March 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Photos courtesy of Akiyoshi Takagi Architects \u00a0 Who: Yuji Nakae (Nakae Architects Inc.), Akiyoshi Takagi (Akiyoshi Takagi Architects), Hiroshi Ohno (Ohno Japan) \u00a0 What: Apartment building \u00a0 Where: Suginami, Tokyo \u00a0 When: 2007 (completion) \u00a0 How: Three stories, reinforced concrete construction \u00a0 Site Area: 2173 square feet (201.89m\u00b2) \u00a0 Construction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/category\/architecture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ne1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}