Tiny House
Compact residential designs that maximize functionality and livability within minimal square footage.
Moving "Rubik's Cube": Stilted Color Blocks That Give the Homeless an Address and a Neighborhood
Raised boxes, red mast canopies and colour chosen for hope combine into a low-cost village that invites outsiders in rather than walling residents off.
Wadhal Turns a Former Garage Plot in Ruislip into a 70 m² House That Borrows the Suburban Semi's Vocabulary
In West London's Ruislip, a compact two-bedroom home recasts the bay window, hipped roof and brick base of its suburban neighbours in plywood and tile.
TW Ryan Architecture Raises Four Tented Metal Roofs over an Age-in-Place House on a Montana Bluff
On a forested bluff above Seeley Lake in Helmville, Montana, a single-story home built for fire, snow and decades of living echoes the distant peaks.
Desvão Atelier Raises an L-Shaped House in Sesimbra and Crowns It with a Terracotta Roof Lookout
Near the Arrábida hills in Sesimbra, Portugal, a single-storey white house folds around a patio and turns its flat roof into a terracotta terrace.
Marcela Carranza Arquitectura Lifts a Single-Level Home for Elderly Owners above a Steep Costa Rican Slope
In San Mateo de Alajuela, a 268 m² timber and glass house rests on slender steel stilts, leaving the hillside, its water and its trees largely untouched.
Estúdio Minke Strips a 1940s Higienópolis Apartment Back to Its Concrete Bones and Plants It Like a Village House
In São Paulo's Higienópolis, a 113 m² renovation trades a compartmentalized 1940s plan for one open room of concrete, reclaimed brick and greenery.
Granada Form Carves a White Stucco Cube in Echo Park into a Family Home, Garden Room and Neighborhood Coffee Stop
In Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, a 25-foot stucco ADU cuts square openings into a white cube and stacks a home, garden and roof deck on one lot.
Studio Andre Lenza Shrinks a Family Home into a Single-Storey Goiânia House Behind Timber Screens
A couple's move to a smaller home in eastern Goiânia becomes a single-storey concrete house wrapped in timber screens, around a plunge pool and garden.
Studio Officina82 Freezes a Sliding Alpine Hay-Barn Roof into a 12 m² Treehouse Cabin in Piedmont
In Alpisella, a shingle-clad guest cabin rises on four timber posts among oaks, recasting the barchi hay barn as a room for sleeping in the canopy.
Iterare Arquitectos Nests a New White House Inside an Old Brick Shell on a Torrefiel Corner in Valencia
In Valencia's working-class Torrefiel, Casa Nido keeps a humble brick facade and its stucco cornice, then grows a courtyard house inside and above it.
CTA Wraps a Koi Pond, Planted Terraces and an Open Kitchen Under One Sweeping Roof in Ho Chi Minh City
In Ho Chi Minh City, a 118 m² house by CTA steps across planted terraces and a koi pond beneath one sweeping shingled canopy roof.
Taller Segovia Molina Wraps a Querétaro Family House in Blind Brick Around a Barrel-Vaulted Stair
In suburban Santiago de Querétaro, Casa Refugio turns a blind brick face to the street and opens inward to fragmented gardens, voids and skylights.
nanometer architecture Lifts a Timber House onto Steel Stilts to Keep a Japanese Hillside's Farmland Slope
In Western Japan, a cedar-clad house hovers on a black steel frame, turning a 5-meter farmland slope into a sheltered garden residents must walk through.
YUMI Architekci Sets a Pale Brick Gable on a Timber Base to Turn the Holiday Cabin into a Year-Round Home
In Izbica, Poland, a 134 m² year-round home borrows the holiday cabin's steep roof and round window, then tunes it for daily life among mature trees.
minuit architectes Wedges Nine Homes into a Narrow Montreuil Plot with a Stepped Back and Roof Terraces
In Montreuil, France, a 600 m² infill block of nine apartments steps down toward its courtyard, trading facade spectacle for light, terraces and craft.
longwave studio Reorganizes a 112 m² Tainan Apartment Around the Daily Routines of a Family and Two Cats
In Tainan, Taiwan, birch plywood, rust-red furniture and a freestanding plaster wall link arrival, storage, work and family life in one apartment.
Lenka Milerová Turns an Old Village Pigsty into a 32-Square-Meter Concrete Summer House in Czechia
In Panoší Újezd, a rubble-stone pigsty gains cast concrete reveals, a slope-cut bath and a daybed that doubles as woodstore, all for about €20,000.
LOTE STUDIO Tucks a Low Earthen Beach House into the Coastal Scrub of Chile's Coquimbo Region
On the coast at Punta Hueso in Chile, a 387 m² house of plastered volumes, cane-shaded decks and timber interiors keeps a deliberately light footprint.
Paulo Tripoloni Converts a Sealed São Paulo Commercial Building into a Three-Storey House Built Around a Courtyard
In São Paulo, JT House turns a sealed former commercial space into a 145 m² home where a planted courtyard, a concrete stair and the kitchen do the work.
Minimo Comun Arquitectura Builds a 63 m² Two-Storey House Among Four Trees in Asunción
A self-built house in Santa Rosa, Asunción, where a compact square plan stacks living below sleeping and leaves room for a car, gravel and four trees.
