Revolution in Student Flats: Hole, Sweet Hole

Housing experiment in Wroclaw under the name "Starter": tiny (12 - 20 m sq), one room flats are to be built on Wybrzeze Pasteura (Pasteur's Coast), as a replacement of dilapidated former hotel belonging to the University of Wroclaw.
Tomasz Majda, from Inwestycje Dolnoslaskie, the investing company, said the idea arose from Manchester's Student's Castle, and English model of small and cozy student flats, which ID wanted to try out on Polish grounds.
Investors claim 12 sq m is just enough to arrange into a functional flat, with small bathroom/shower space, kitchenette with a small cooker, a bed and a desk. One thing missing would be a washing machine, but a common laundry room is to be arranged downstairs.
Skeptics claimed there will be little interest in such small premises, since it is hard to live on 12 m sq area. But according to Majda, for students from outside Wroclaw a flat is more a storage space than actual home and should be just enough.
The interest of potential customers is quite significant so far. Out of 153 flats in the project 53 have already been sold and 50 more are reserved. One major argument for the investment is the price: the cheapest flat will cost 97,000 zl, an unreachable price in Wroclaw's real estate market these days. Yet another advantage, according to the investor, is the possibility to sell the flat when is no longer needed and reclaim majority of invested funds.
First residents of "Starter" are to settle in their flats in January 2014. If the investment proves successful, the company wants to erect more buildings with flats of similar capacity, or slightly bigger.