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: Â Â 2005 Site Area: Â Â 38m2 Few of us have ever lived in 38 m2 (410 sq. ft) let alone on a 38 m2 site! Â We have previously featured the work of this architect and, when suggesting a feature on another home, Megumi, the practice […]
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 […]
COTH… Cottage on the Hill
Michigan  USA – Zinta Aistars Lot size:   10 acres (2 hectares) Built area:  200 sq. ft. (18.5 m2) Year built:  Unknown Renovated:  2012/13 Standing on a hill in the woods of south-west Michigan is a whimsical cottage named COTH by its writer owner, Zinta Aistars.  Although the 10 acre property has […]
Earth House – An Ode to Yoon Dong-joo
Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea – Byoungsoo Cho Site area:   660m2 Floor Area:  32.49m2 Project Year:   2008-2009 Photography:   Wooseop Hwang, Yong Gwan Kim It would seem odd to think of a 14m x 7m concrete box set deep in the ground as a ‘house of the sky’ and yet it is! The tiny home […]
Chicken Point Cabin
Northern Idaho  USA – Olson Kundig Architects Photography:    Benjamin Benschneider Built:   2002 We find something very appealing about this cabin.  One the one hand, it offers all the comforts of home.  On the other, it ‘feels’ like a cabin should – a refuge a hundred kilometres from our work-a-day lives.  It somehow blends a […]
The Cottage on the Hill – Zinta Aistars
What could this odd-shaped and many-windowed little house in the woods have possibly housed? I stood in the woods on the top of the hill with my real estate agent, gazing in befuddlement—and increasingly also in delighted awe—at the little structure that reminded me a little of a Dr. Seuss house, a little of a […]