Fold up stairs. No thanks on the high voltage lines 10 feet from my bedroom.

It\'s like a trailer park in the sky.

You\'re talking about 676 sq.ft. That\'s more than adequate for a small family.
My wife and I lived in a 650 sq.ft. guesthouse with 2 dogs for a spell and the only dislike was that it had an electric stove. We\'d both rather cook with gas. Cripes - it even had 2 bedrooms and 2 baths.

Nice idea but where do you store anything, or for that matter do any work?
This sort of house is only any good for people that do very little in their spare time and only want a place to eat and sleep.

I wonder what the top floor feels like during an earthquake. And how easy will it be trying to run up the spiral staircase, pick up the baby and run down again to escape?

If I lived in one of these vertical houses, I\'d like to have a fire-house brass pole for quick descents, but I doubt this house even has room for that.

This is silly, while one vertical house uses less land than one conventional house they wouldn\'t come close to the density we already get with a block of normal flats/apartments and that\'s without the hassle of spiral stairs.

All's well until your neighbors plan a similar vertical constructional excercise. Then you realise that it is not the plot that matters but your "airspace" around that plot. Also I would not be very comfortable in such an ultra-density urban development, just look at what happens in shantytowns when fire breaks out.

Let\'s see it furnished, if it doesn\'t look small then I\'ll be surprised. Also did anyone else catch the fact that the toilet is right in front of a full glass of window and that you had to go through the bathroom to get to the rooftop and go outside and back in to get to the tub. I could see the rooftop parties now. Why not just have the ceiling height at 4 ft high (so you could crawl throughout the entire house) and have the floors zigzag upwards to get about 7 floors into 30 ft (who needs to stand.) Can you smell the sarcasm.

I like it. If I had a home with a modest back yard and I wanted a grannie flat this would be ideal!