Tiny House Project
Sebastopol, CA – Alek Lisefski Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-) If you liked this project, you will also like viewing …
Tinos Stable
Tinos Island Greece – Ioannis Exarchou Photography: Sylvia Diamantopoulos An old stable sitting high on the side of a hill, overlooking rugged mountains and valleys. Cave like with stone walls it seemed an unlikely vacation home. But, by plastering only the interior walls, inserting a new floor and filling gaps in the exterior stonework with […]
Living in 10m2
Virserum and Lund, Sweden – Tengbom Architects Location: Portable Built area: 10 sqm Year built: 2013 Photography: Bertil Hertzberg Tertiary study never comes cheaply, especially if the student needs to live away from the family home. Accommodation costs usually mean that the student needs to work in order […]
Roll It
Karlsruhe, Germany – University of Karlsruhe Could you live in a cylinder? This is the ultimate experiment in low-cost housing. Called ‘Roll it’, it was designed and built by collaborative teams at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. Comprising of three independent cylinders, the unit is a complete dwelling with a bed/sitting/study area, an exercise ‘room’ […]
Pocket Shelter
United States – Aaron Maret Design Built Studio Built area: 8′ x 23′ / 200 sqft Year built: Spring 2013
Toronto’s Tiniest Home
Toronto Canada Year Built: 1912 Built Area: 300 sq. ft. (27.8 m2) At just over 7 feet wide (2.2m), this must be one of the narrowest fixed homes in the developed world. It also ranks as one of the smallest we’ve come across, excluding those built on trailers. The home was built […]
A Tiny Cabin in Maine
Ragged Island Maine USA – Alex Scott Porter Design Built: 2009 Area: 30m2 (360 sq ft) + veranda and outhouse of 14m2 (160 sq ft) Deciding to build on a small island 20 miles off the coast brings a few challenges with it. Having to ship everything on an amphibious barge is only the […]
The Mini House
Sweden – Jonas Wagell Architects Area: 15m2 (162 sq. ft,) internal + deck/veranda Prefabrication can save new home owners a lot… of money and stress. As most builders will admit, if it can go wrong, at some stage it will. Rain, theft, damage, mistakes – they all add to the cost of a new home. […]
A Tiny House on a River Island
Sauvie Island Portland OR – Jessica Helgerson Interior Design Built: 1940 Renovated: 2009 Area: 50m2 (540 sq. ft.) When the owners bought this home in 2008 they decided to try to live within the existing footprint. Step 1 was to design the interior for maximum efficiency. The owners also wanted to recycle as much as possible. Here is an except […]
Love House – a story in two parts
Yokohama Kanagawa Japan – Takeshi Hosaka Architects Built: 2005 Site Area: 38m2 Few of us have ever lived in 38 m2 (410 sq. ft) let alone on a 38 m2 site! We have previously featured the work of this architect and, when suggesting a feature on another home, Megumi, the practice […]