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Small Space: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Small space design requires intentional planning to balance comfort, functionality, and aesthetic quality within limited square footage. Designers working in this area develop solutions that make compact homes feel open, organized, and suited to their inhabitants' needs.

The community explores vertical living arrangements, material efficiency, adaptive reuse of apartments, and integration of natural elements into confined footprints. Projects range from rural cottages and urban apartments to experimental compact dwellings that demonstrate how thoughtful architecture can transform modest dimensions into livable environments.

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Yakup

331

Curved-Living

The design offers curved life with a gravitational and non-gravity environment to supply the minimum needs.

Samhita and 3 others

196

Mellow

'Mellow' is a reading pod that can also be used for other activities like sleeping, working, meditation, etc. The pod represents the transition of a user stepping into a place of solitude and calm, away from the busyness of one’s daily routine.

saeid

158

nano nest

With the growing population, land is constantly seen as a depleting resource and thus has increased real estate prices. Today, the definition of a house has barely boiled down to it being a commodity that constitutes a kitchen, a living area, bedroom and bathroom.

Hindusthan School and 2 others

109

Prakritisadanam

Energy efficient design in urban community in small area

Misak

105

Green Vertical Village

Nano nests composing a green and healthy community. The main concept is based on how we can make living interesting and humane again. It is a fact that most metropolitan cities are in a high demand of housing.

Yamini and Ashwin

THE URBAN ENSEMBLE

THE URBAN ENSEMBLE is an innovative micro-housing solution that addresses the need for affordable housing in Bengaluru, India - one of India’s several urban centres and a bustling tech-city, where young migrants and working individuals are constantly in search of affordable living options in the vicinity of their workplace or institution.

akansha

Minima

Minima is a cleverly compact and crafted small footprint home catering to all the basic needs of a family of four. It is characterized by an easy assemble and disassemble process, a compact and flexible structure catering to the basic needs of all the members.

Sukriti and Aditi

Saghan House

The entire house is in open plan with louvered sliding folding partitions to separate out spaces when privacy is required. As much open space with maximum natural ventilation and lighting has been provided to minimize electricity use. The furniture design accommodates each individual's personality and further opens up to comfortably accommodate six people.

Nicolas and 3 others

Oasis

Home, understood since its beginning with fire, around which the first communities of hunters and collectors congregated, reflects a feeling of protection and wellbeing. In the near future its meaning has to be rethought in the concept of oasis, synonymous of community and life.

Shivya and 3 others

Malja Almubaraka (The Blessed Shelter)

The condition of Syria and its habitats has been severe post the destructive war and has left them with no place to live. Therefore, we are proposing plug-in micro housing for their resettlement.This approach will help the survivors with a place to live, also allowing them to alter it as per their requirements.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Santos Arquitectura Uses a Single Services Box to Split an 81 m² Chihuahua Retail Unit into a Spin Studio

In a Chihuahua shopping plaza, one yellow services container separates lobby from cycling room and buffers both the noise and the darkness of a spin class.

Architecture

Space Planning

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It

A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.

Green Houses

Tree House

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

7th Hue Architecture Collective Filters Kerala's Light Through a Compact Brick and Timber Home

At just over 2,000 square feet, The Tiny House in Kerala reimagines compact tropical living through courtyards, perforated screens, and layered volumes.

Tiny House

Small Space

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Studio MM Architect Distills Rural Life to 1,290 Square Feet on a Catskills Hilltop

A retired couple's radically pared-back residence in North Branch, New York, trades square footage for deep connection to six acres of farmland.

Tiny House

Small Space