Cette chambre de bonne de 8 m² ne fait pas rêver... Mais attendez de voir ce qu'ils en ont fait ! Paris, septième étage sans ascenseur, accessible par une porte de service puis par un très long couloir, voici une chambre de seulement 8 m².
Jusque là, ça ne fait pas vraiment rêver… Et pourtant ! Cette ancienne chambre de bonne est passée entre les mains et surtout les cerveaux du studio d’architecture Kitoko, qui ont eu l’idée d’en faire un véritable couteau-suisse géant, et de le rendre extrêmement fonctionnel ! What Life Is Like Inside A 129-Square-Foot Apartment.
Most micro-apartments tend to tout their design and they don't come cheap.
The concept of using every square inch has been (rather brilliantly) exploited as an exercise in efficiency. (Or you can slant it as sustainable urban design.) To those of you who live in a 3,000-square-foot suburban home, the 300-square-foot design that won former Mayor Bloomberg's micro-apartment design competition might seem quite tiny. But 300 square feet seems positively palatial compared to this Parisian studio. Filmed by Kristen Dirksen, whose site Faircompanies.com has been instrumental in popularizing tiny houses and apartments, this video shows, amazingly, that you can fit basically everything you need to survive properly into 129 square feet. Shut up, and take my money! Think Your Apartment Is Small? Check Out These Super-Tiny Hong Kong Houses. Hong Kong is one of the most expensive cities in the world, which makes it an especially hard place to live if you’re poor: Even a cramped, rundown slum apartment can cost $11 per square foot, nearly three times the average in a city like New York.
Plus.google. Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms. Sonoma County Modern Tiny House. 10 Of the Strangest Homes In the World. EmailEmail Your home is one of the few things that can tell who you are.
It can be small or big, bright or dark, full of flowers or full of junk – everyone feels different about what is comfortable, functional or even pretty, and today there are surely enough means to make even the wildest visions come true. From a 1 square meter portable house to a reconstructed water tower or a church, below are some of the most unusual home examples. Where would you like to stay for the night? 1. The Keret House, inserted between two existing buildings, measures only from 92 to 152 centimeters in width!
Designed by: Jakub Szczęsny 2. Would You Live In This 182-Square-Foot Micro-Micro Apartment? You may have heard of the microapartment trend, a 200-to-300-ish square foot dwelling for people looking to decrease their space and consumption footprints.
But have you ever heard of someone living in a pico-dwelling? If you haven’t, that’s because there’s only one man (to our knowledge) who does. Lightbox House by Edwards Moore. Australian studio Edwards Moore has revamped a small brick house in Melbourne by adding a new storey and a translucent roof (+ slideshow).
Architects Ben Edwards and Juliet Moore were tasked with increasing the size of the single-storey terraced house, as well as improving the quality of space and light inside each of its rooms. A new storey was added over the existing structure, with a translucent roof that diffuses light through the entire upper level. Unlike the lower walls, which are made from brick and feature peeling paintwork, the extension comes with a clean black facade created by standing-seam cladding.
The new level accommodates a living room on one side and a kitchen/dining room on the other, freeing up space on the ground floor for a reception room and two generous bedrooms. A layer of perforated metal sits above exposed wooden rafters to give a see-through floor to the living room, allowing light and views down to the spaces below.
Photography is by Fraser Marsden. Rent Too Damn High? Try This High-Concept Cocoon. When the world is cold and offering you nothing but price-gouged crawl spaces on Craigslist, moving into one of those demonstration micro-homes at Ikea may seem like an attractive option.
Or you could try this: A final project from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s Tanya Shukstelinsky, who built a slim "Cocoon" out of fabric that translates into a living space. The cocoon itself is made up of two hanging sheets of fabric, complete with a sleeping space, steps, a table, and a fillable bathtub. Inhabitants can navigate their nearly two dimensional world by clinging to the stitches laced inside. Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces. Think Your Home's Small? Look At Hong Kong’s Illegal Microapartments. A “small apartment” in New York means under 300 square feet.
In Hong Kong, that square-footage count routinely dips into double digits. With the world’s third-most expensive housing market, many of the city’s lower-income residents are forced to live in shockingly small apartments. A single square foot of Hong Kong real estate will cost you over $1,300, on average. It can be tough to grasp the reality of living in what amounts to a very functional closet through facts and figures, though. These images, which show us a bird’s eye view of several Hong Kong microapartments, do a much better job. As part of SoCO’s campaign to draw attention to the housing shortage, the group commissioned a photographer to visit dozens of Hong Kong families living in dangerously tiny spaces.
As some have noted, the photos recall Kowloon City, the 15-story megablock that was demolished by city authorities in 1993. [H/t Visual News] Una vida editada y sostenible teniendo menos cosas. En el pasado TEDxMurcia 2013 tuvimos la ocasión de disfrutar de una charla en vídeo que ya conocíamos, pero viene muy bien recordar de vez en cuando.
Si no conoces al arquitecto y diseñador canadiense Graham Hill (no el piloto de F1 :-) te invitamos a que visites TreeHugger, referente ecointeligente 2.0, y fundado por él. NRW-Forum Düsseldorf // Container Architecture. Photo © NRW-Forum Düsseldorf In recent years the big LEGO-like boxed containers are not only limited to being seen at sea ports; architects have brought them to mainland and adapted for them a variety of uses ranging from high-rise apartment blocks in Melbourne and student housing in Canberra to the Guzman Penthouse addition in Manhattan.
Berlin – June 2011, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, invited renowned architects, designers, and artists from around the world to submit designs for container architecture. With an overwhelming response, and with new and already existing designs, the models were reconstructed on a scale of 1:5 for the Container Architecture Exhibition. More than 100 designs were submitted for consideration and every one of them will be included in a frieze of pictures running around the walls of the exhibition space; 24 were reconstructed, the tallest scaled model pierces the museum’s ceiling. But what triggered the creation of this exhibition; why containers? Sources: Modern Small Apartment With Delightul Details. Advertisement Looking planning solutions for tight spaces? Development of a small apartment with a modest surface is always a challenge for anyone.
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