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: Â Â 1912 Built Area: Â Â 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. Â It also ranks as one of the smallest we’ve come across, excluding those built on trailers. The home was built […]
Tokyo Tight
Tokyo, Japan  –  Unemori Architects Site Area:   34.27 m2  (370 sq. ft.) Building Envelope:   17.47 m2  (188 sq. ft.) Built Area:   67.34 m2  (727 sq. ft.) Photography: Unemori Architects Japan truly is the land of innovation when it comes to housing. Its cities are crowded, land is limited and if […]
Urban Shelter
Madrid, Spain – MYCC Built area: 21.0 sqm Year built: 2012 Photography: Elena Almagro From the architect. This singular urban shelter is just twenty square meters and nevertheless is one hundred cubic meters of volume. In such an enclosed space should a single person live and work. He will use his creativity and dynamism to […]
Hank’s Bus
Location: Â Â Â Anywhere he chooses Architect: Â Â Â Hank Buttita Year built: Â Â 2013 With just a $3,000 Craigslist purchase, 15 weeks of design and construct effort and a further $6,000 of expenditure, Hank Butitta totally validates our belief that all too often, what we want, stops us from having what we need! […]
29 square metres in Moscow
Moscow, Russia – Anton Grishin Apartment: Â Â 29 m2 Â (312 sq. ft.) Year built: Â Â 2013 Small may be beautiful but have you ever really considered living full time in a space only marginally bigger than a hotel room? Clearly, in a space this size, storage is everything unless you are an aesthete. The […]
Joshua Tree – Hangar Design Group
Anywhere  –  Hangar Design Group We’re used to the concept of ‘mobile homes’ and pre-fabrication.  In fact, the two are synonymous.  The Joshua Tree is a new take on the concept, delivering a very high quality product that is claimed to be genuinely capable of mobility.  Manufactured by Agora Prefab, the home is built with overlapping zinc titanium tiles […]
The organic Hus-1
West coast  Sweden  –  Torsten Ottesjö Built area:   25m2  (270 sq. ft.) This tiny home designed and built by Ottesjö Torsten, may be the most organic home we’ve featured so far.  In fact, I can’t look at it without thinking of the sand-worms from the movie Dune.  But don’t let that get in the way of […]
Thailand Dome House – Steve Areen
A mango farm somewhere in North-East Thailand  –  Steve Areen… Built area:   500 sq. ft.  (46 m2) + hammock ;) Steve Areen went from flight steward to owner-builder of this unique home. He completed the main structural work to habitable standard in just six weeks with one full time helper and one casual hand […]
Where every bit of space counts
Paris France – Marc Baillargeon and Julie Nabucet Built area: 12m2 (130 sq. ft.) Year Built: 2012 Living in the heart of any of the world’s major cities like London, Sydney, New York, Tokyo and Paris may have it’s benefits – but it also comes at a high price. This has resulted in many […]