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Tiny House Conference Coming to Portland Later This Month
There’s little doubt that tiny houses have caught the public imagination, if not widespread municipal zoning board approval. One place where the approval–both in its citizenry and legislative bodies–is...
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“5 to 1″ Micro Apartment a Perfect 10
Architect Michael Chen has one of the most impressive portfolios of small apartment projects in the United States, if not the world. “Although we [MCKA, Chen’s firm] work at a broad range of scales, we...
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Awesome French Micro Apartment is Awesome
Continuing on yesterday’s theme of creative adaptations of existing spaces is this apartment by French architect Cyril Rheims. The space, designed for a young student, measures only 301 sq ft but...
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Tiny, Offline, Off-Grid and Ready for Creation
It’s a funny contradiction that the information age–so brimming with raw creative material–is often the assassin of creativity. It’s as if our consciousness has so much data coming in, we have lost the...
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Pied-à-Terres and the Architectural Appetizer Theory
In most restaurants, it’s the appetizers, not the main courses, that feature the most innovative cuisine. Appetizers are not burdened with the responsibility of nourishing diners–they simply give them...
View ArticleVideo: Tour Arcade Providence Micro-Apartment Complex
I’ve long expressed my affection for the Arcade Providence, America’s oldest indoor mall that was recently converted to house ground floor retail and two upper floors of micro-apartments. Fair...
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Yesterday’s Future of Modular Interior Design
This site has featured a number of modular, everything-included interior units–from MIT’s CityHome to Urban Capital’s Cubitat to Clei’s Elastic Living. The concept makes a ton of sense: plug one of...
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What is the Future of Home?
We–well Graham, our founder–often gets asked to present on the subject of LifeEdited, doing more with less and the like. And we–well I, David your trusty blogger–am often charged with researching and...
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Spanish Architects Reimagine the Not-So-Empty Nest
Back in the day, at least in many industrialized nations, there was an expectation that children graduate from school, leave home to go to school or get a job. After that, maybe they’d live and work in...
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Tiny Pale Beauty from Berlin
Architects Spamroom are responsible for creating the elegant 221 sq ft Berlin studio you see here. The process began with a full gut of the early 20th century-built apartment. The previous layout...
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Home Parasitic Home
One of the more interesting architectural tactics for increasing urban density and housing stock is using spaces that are often ignored or thought un-developable. This is the idea behind Michael...
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The House That Data Built
One of this site’s most visited posts is entitled “Residential Behavioral Architecture 101”. In it, we looked at a thermal map taken from the book “Life at Home in the 21st Century.” The map showed the...
View ArticleWhere’s the Best Place in North America to Live an Edited Life?
An article in Curbed yesterday gave a construction update of My Micro NY, the celebrated winner of the adAPT NYC micro-apartment pilot program competition that will be ready this summer. Make no...
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Micro Suite Accommodates Three Students, Lots of Chipboard
As has been mentioned on this site on several occasions, there are many ways to go micro beside individual micro-apartments. In most cases shared apartments will achieve lower per person footprints, as...
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The Perfect Home for the Modern, Connected Hermit
Have you ever had the desire to escape it all? Maybe hole up in the woods or on the side of a mountain. But perhaps the traditional twig hut or cave is a bit too spartan for your liking. Maybe you want...
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Zoku: The Home for Nomads
With the advent of high speed information technology, facilitating near-instantaneous communications and transfers of information from any spot on the globe, a new breed of global citizen has emerged....
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A Very Big Idea in Tiny House Living
Make fun of Portland all you want, but few American cities (probably none) are showing more creativity with their zoning in order to provide affordable, transit friendly housing options. Their liberal...
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A Case for Building More Small, Inexpensive Vacation Homes
Who knew that Sweden has had tiny house colonies for that last 100 years? Apparently many Swedes knew, but this unimformed American did not. These aren’t “tiny houses” in the modern sense of the term....
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Follow Up Friday: Tiny House Projects Go Extra Mile
Sometimes this site features cool projects whose consummation is on some date in the far off–or not so far off–future. Well today, I wanted to do a little “where are they now,” having stumbled across...
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Would You Buy This Off-Grid, Bunker-Style, Shipping Container Home for $46K?
Ottawan Joseph Dupuis built this mostly-off-grid, 355 sq ft shipping container home and is now selling it for a cool $46,500 ($58K CAD). While this doesn’t fall into the super cheap price tier,...
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