--- title: CityHome MIT Apartment Expands With Wave of Hand description: An all-in-one pull-out bed, dining room, living room, kitchen and more canonical: https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-05T15:38:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:23.995Z og:title: This Apartment Expands With the Wave of a Hand og:description: An all-in-one pull-out bed, dining room, living room, kitchen and more og:url: https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Apartment Expands With the Wave of a Hand twitter:description: An all-in-one pull-out bed, dining room, living room, kitchen and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Apartment Expands With the Wave of a Hand  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Jun 5, 2014 3:38 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Jun 5, 2014 3:38 PM CUT If you thought your Murphy bed was a smart space-saver, wait until you see what MIT has been developing. CityHome, a research project led by Kent Larson and Hasier Larrea, is a floor-to-ceiling 200 square-foot module that’s engineered to transform into furniture, exercise apparatuses, entertainment systems, lights, storage and office equipment, [according to the MIT Media Lab](http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/changing-places "undefined"). Even better, all you have to do is lift your hand—CityHome has motion sensors—to tell it, for example, to eject a dining room table. Currently a prototype, the technology is designed to make a tiny apartment feel two to three times that size, [TechCrunch reports](http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/grow-your-own-apartment-with-just-the-wave-of-your-hand/?ncid=rss "undefined"). The only issue: will buying CityHome be more expensive than simply renting a bigger apartment? The [next closest thing](http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2014/05/01/uh-collapsible-folding-nyc-apartment.cnnmoney/index.html?section=money%5Frealestate "undefined") is on the market for $1 million. (Also, how do you fit it through your door?) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/"},"headline":"This Apartment Expands With the Wave of a Hand","datePublished":"2014-06-05T15:38:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:23.995Z","description":"An all-in-one pull-out bed, dining room, living room, kitchen and more","url":"https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Technology","Apartments","furniture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2826745/this-apartment-expands-with-the-wave-of-a-hand/","name":"This Apartment Expands With the Wave of a Hand"}}]}] ```