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Imagine a house in which – at the flick of a button – your bed descends from the ceiling, your dining table pops out from the floor panels, and your projector screen unfurls from the roof.
想象一下这样的一座房子—按钮轻轻一按—你的床就从天花板上降下来，你的餐桌从地板层弹出，而你的投影仪屏幕从房顶舒卷而下。
That is the design of the YO! Home.
这就是YO!Home的设计。
The studio of 420 sq ft (39 sq m), replete with Juliette balcony, can transform into four different room configurations using hidden spaces and shifting perspectives.
这间420平方英尺（39平米）的样板间，带有朱丽叶式阳台，靠使用隐藏空间和视角转换，可以转换成四种不同的户型。
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Simon Woodroffe, the brains behind YO! Sushi and the capsule hotel brand YOTEL, describes how inspiration came from the theatre, where mechanical moving parts can create whole worlds in seconds.
西蒙. 伍德罗夫是哟！寿司，胶囊公寓品牌YOTEL背后的设计师，他描述了他从剧院获得的灵感来源，在那里，通过机械传动部件的移动，整个世界瞬间改变！
“We’re looking at quantum leaps in different ways of life,” insists Woodroffe excitedly, pouring over plans at his houseboat home on the River Thames.
“我们打算实现生活的量子跃迁，”伍德罗夫兴奋地说，在他位于泰晤士河的船屋里开始展开了计划。
By 2050, 66% = of the world’s population will be urban, adding another 2.5 billion people to cities worldwide.
到了2050年，66%的人口都会都市化，全世界会新增25亿城市人口。
With sky-high property prices in major global hubs such as London, New York and Hong Kong, affordable housing is already under strain and space increasingly at a premium.
而现在全球房价天高的大都市诸如伦敦，纽约和香港，能买得起的房子和空间面临与日俱增的压力。
As such, architects, designers and developers are pushing forward a new frontier: the micro-home.
因此，建筑师，设计师和开发商正推出一种新的前沿科技：微型之家。
They want to change the way we think about space, challenging the assumption that less square footage necessarily equates to a sacrifice in quality of living.
他们想要改变我们对空间的想法，挑战人们之前对平米数越少居住质量越差的观念。
With shoebox-size homes now a reality for many, they are asking how to make the minuscule beautiful and the tiny practical.
随着鞋盒般的小房子对很多人来说成为了现实，他们正思考如何能让微型之家更美丽，让小家更实用。
“The trend seems to be smaller places more thoughtfully engineered,” says Sydney-based Karen McCartney, author of Superhouse.
“潮流似乎是更小的地方会有更多工程设计思想”，悉尼出生的凯伦.麦卡特尼说，她是《超级家居》的作者。
“Size is not always the goal. Architects are able to [do] things that the ordinary person can’t imagine, changing the way that space can be used.”
“大小不是最终目标。建筑师能够做出普通人难以想象的事情，挑战空间使用的方式。”
Still, YO! Home is already generating interest everywhere from San Francisco to Helsinki.
而YO! Home从旧金山到赫尔辛基所到之处都引起了人们的兴趣。
The next step will be making them customisable; Woodroffe envisions buyers ordering their own interiors online, with everything from the wall colour to floor materials designed at will.
下一步就是让顾客体验提升：伍德罗夫设想将来买家可以自己在网上订购自己想要的，从墙壁的颜色到地板的材料都可以按自己的意愿来设计。
“Hopefully," he grins, "we’ll be the Coca-Cola of small home[s]. Those 25 apartments in that little block are going to sell like hotcakes.”
“有希望的话，”他笑着说，“我们会成为微型之家领域的可口可乐。这个街区的25套公寓卖的会像现烤蛋糕一样好！”
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