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.
