By "tiny," we don't mean cramped cottages or starter apartments. We mean houses the size of parking spots. These six dwellings are on the cutting-edge of the micro-housing movement.
The 44-square-foot Hütte Hut hybrid caravan prefab is a teardrop-shaped trailer for two that can be towed behind most light vehicles and parked anywhere.
This experimental four structure village in Washington D.C. was established to inform the community about the potential of micro-housing. Here, Boneyard Studios educates visitors about best construction and design practices.
Parking garages may be the next frontier in adaptive reuse. Upon learning there were as many as five parking spaces for every registered car in the United States, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design set out to design shelters to fill those spots. The result is the boldly experimental SCADpad, a micro-dwelling where hypothetical residents can use a 3-D printer to produce custom accessories for their home.
More thought-provoking than practical, Van Bo Le-Mentzel's One Square Meter House fits a desk, window, and sleeping area into a tiny capsule. For inspiration, he looked to aircraft cabins' highly efficient accomodations.
The 44-square-foot Hütte Hut hybrid caravan prefab is a teardrop-shaped trailer for two that can be towed behind most light vehicles and parked anywhere.
Docomomo US announces the winners of this year's Modernism in America Awards. Each project showcases exemplary modern restoration techniques, practices, and ideas.
Today, we kicked off this year’s annual Dwell on Design at the LA Convention Center, which will continue through Sunday, June 26th. Though we’ve been hosting this extensive event for years, this time around is particularly special.
By straightening angles, installing windows, and adding vertical accents, architect Aaron Ritenour brought light and order to an irregularly shaped apartment in the heart of Athens, Greece.
From the bones of a neglected farmstead in rural Scotland emerges a low-impact, solar-powered home that’s all about working with what was already there.
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