Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms

In 2005, thirdgradeteacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid 235, 000 for a 450squarefoot studio with a tiny kitchen. Then he let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects design a way to pack more density into his small space. In order to fit more apartment in a small footprint, they created an object that s bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day. It s a large, b