Liu Ming , a feng shui teacher in Oakland , CA , hold out in a loft inside a storage warehouse in Oakland , California . But he spend much of his clock time — working , slumber , meditating — inside a steel and plyboard regular hexahedron that sits on cycle in the middle of his loft . Why ? Because , he say , it ’s right feng shui .
Liu liked his garret but found it lacking a certain coziness . The block , designed with an architect who happens to be one of his feng shui students , answer as a perfect space for any number of activeness . Liu explained to the NY Times :
In feng shui , we let the cat out of the bag about the harmony in the space that you live in . The cube evolved out of want cozy with the option of keeping a big , unresolved quad at the same time . And we added wheels for feng shui intent . Now that it is portable , I can spin it on an axis vertebra , I can aim my head and target my desk in dissimilar compass directions for different undertaking . If I am writing something and feel blocked , I can get up and move the elbow room .
The elbow room within a room be $ 20,000 in all to build—$12,000 of that going to its steel frame — but the full thing can be dismantle into three - foot parts that can fit out of a standard room access ; wherever Liu might move , the cube will go with him . The takeout food , for all of us slaving away in strangle kiosk in the office Rosa Parks of this great nation ? At least they ’re cozy . [ NYT ]
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