Compact Living
Design approaches to dwellings and communal spaces that deliver full domestic function within small footprints, from urban infill to rural retreats.
Compact living concerns how homes, shared buildings and settlements can meet everyday needs within limited floor area, using spatial sequencing, multifunctional furniture, and careful control of light and ventilation. The discipline draws on residential architecture, urban density research, and prefabrication, and it treats small scale as a design condition rather than a shortfall.Community work under this topic ranges from single-family houses and prefabricated retreats to vertical village and modular hub concepts, examining how compact plans connect occupants to landscape, daylight and shared infrastructure.
