Very nice, i like it

This is fantastic way to switch from window to balcony. Love it!

i kinda like ti… but when would u need a foldaway balcony as opposed to a permanent one…?

Even cooler if the window was twice the height and the lower window becomes a see through floor and the upper window remains as the third side of the railing. Water intrusion is always an issue tho….hope the seals are high quality and that there is a built in drain system to shunt water out of the unit when folded during rainstorms. I’m a builder so if the price was right and the quality good I’d definitely offer this to clients - I could see this in the obvious urban areas but also in certain designs in our very rural areas where there is an amenity like a creekside location that a host could show off during a party, etc, etc……

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Looks like it’s connected in just a couple places to the window frame.

I can’t see the construction all that clearly from the pictures, but this looks like a serious safety issue over time. Balconies are usually constructed with a support that goes straight through to the floor of the apartment. This works differently — which is fine in the near term. But houses are built for the long haul.

Not that it’s not cool — but this smells like a designer’s idea and not an engineer/architect’s

This is stupid. Nobody will buy this. You have to clean your balcony before you close it, otherwise you’ll have dirt or water in your appartment (and footsteps on your wall).

Were do you put that table and chairs that are on then balcony. Look at anybodies room today. There is no room to store what you naturally put on a balcony when it’s open . The window folded away takes up space inside the house. Utter useless …

i would be afraid to walk on it.

What a couple of *********, where can I put the things i would use on the balcony? try using the folding kind of F, what if i get water in the apartment, and footsteps on the wall. do anyone open a major size window when the rain is hamering into it ? and footprints, don’t you think thers textures or some kind of plastic that would hide the tracks.. this is so extraordinary, but already invented,,, not the most beautiful balchony, but minimalist and usefull in the city. love it.

Now, my window is maybe two, two and a half feet across max. Do I really want a two foot wide balcony hanging off the side of my window? Is it going to jut out six feet like some sort of weird space bridge to nowhere? If you have a window large enough for a balcony, chances are your apartment is so nice you don’t need a balcony……….I guess we can all dream….

There’s no way you can convince me that something like this is going to support more than one average adult at best. I can see the class-action lawsuit now as these things come crashing down all over the place as the result of balcony parties.

This raises an interesting question. The reason that all buildings don’t have balconies isn’t because the architect didn’t want to build them, its because that when you build on a plot of land you are only given a certain number of square feet that you can build. The square footage on balconies typically counts as half a square foot of usable space instead of one whole square foot since you technically can’t live on the balcony. So essentially the building/builder factors in that they can’t really use that balcony space but can eek out a little luxury while not using up all their alloted square footage for the building. So that said, would a balcony like this count against the FAR? And if you installed this would you somehow be penalized? Another note/problem is that technically, you would be standing on the wall when its in use. Footprints on the wall ain’t pretty.

i love this design very much
Good work art!