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Between Wood Craftsmanship and Small-Space Design: Discovering the Work of Madeiguincho in Portugal

Agustina Iñiguez — Fri, 02 May 2025 07:30:00 +0000

How is it possible to maximize livability in small spaces? What design decisions contribute to functionality and the fulfillment of the inhabitants' essential needs? Over the past decade, small-scale architecture has gained prominence in the quest to find new ways of living in connection with nature and in pursuit of relative self-sufficiency, among other reasons. From minimal homes or tree houses to fine carpentry solutions and sculptures, the Portuguese design studio Madeiguincho is dedicated to developing timber-based projects with the aim of promoting knowledge of wood craftsmanship as both a raw material and a building medium.

The Great Tiny House Debate: What it Means to Downsize the Dream

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

The dream of a home in the suburbs with a white picket fence is changing. Between housing crises and homelessness, mounting debt and downsizing, home ownership has become increasingly less attainable. The tiny house movement is a direct response to these forces, with cities and designers asking whether micro dwellings can address pressing issues or if they are glorifying unhealthy living conditions.

Living Small: Furniture and Accessibility

Matthew Maganga — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:30:00 +0000

The Youtube channel Never Too Small boasts 2.25 million subscribers — a platform featuring the imaginative manipulation of space in tiny footprints. Videos of micro-apartments, in Paris, London, and beyond, get views in the millions. Clearly, there is a demand for content geared towards living small, as a global housing crisis has precipitated the ever-dwindling availability of affordable, larger-footprint residences in urban areas. Architects, working in this constrained contemporary reality, have been necessitated to make the most out of limited space, configuring sub-40 square-meter floor areas to create a non-claustrophobic spatial experience.

House Plans Under 50 Square Meters: 30 More Helpful Examples of Small-Scale Living

María Francisca González — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Designing the interior of an apartment when you have very little space to work with is certainly a challenge. We all know that a home should be as comfortable as possible for its inhabitants, but when we have only a few square meters to work with and the essential functions of the home to distribute, finding an efficient layout is not easy. Following our popular selection of houses under 100 square meters, we've gone one better: a selection of 30 floor plans between 20 and 50 square meters to inspire you in your own spatially-challenged designs.

Artificial Intelligence, Tiny Living, and Dissecting What We Build With In 2022

Matthew Maganga — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 07:30:00 +0000

2022 has again resulted in diverse coverage on ArchDaily in an eventful year, from speculating on building materials of the future to analyzing the narrative role that architecture plays in literature. A selection of articles from this year is found below, organized into four over-arching topics.

Portugal in Small-Scale: 15 Architecture Projects Under 25m²

Romullo Baratto — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 07:30:00 +0000

It is becoming a priority for architects to optimize projects that require increasingly smaller spaces, especially when building in urban areas where land value is often the most critical factor. This happens in countries like Portugal, for example, where urban plots are scarce and the properties available for remodeling are usually very small.

Interiors of Today: 17 Projects that Show How Current Cities and Living Trends are Influencing Modern Interior Architecture

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:30:00 +0000

The past couple of decades introduced the world to new ways of living as a result of different social, economic, and ecological changes. Naturally, these changes found their way into the architecture and urban practice, provoking new concepts within traditional typologies. Designing a space, regardless of its function, has always prioritized users' needs and ensured practicality and functionality, but recently, keywords like flexibility, privacy, inclusivity, and eco-consciousness have become driving forces behind design processes. In this interior focus, we will look at how current cities and living trends across the world have reshaped interior design and introduced modifications to typical typologies.

Tiny Living in Japan: How to Optimize Tiny Living Spaces

Jullia Joson — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 07:30:00 +0000

It is often times that when living in Japan, whether you're occupying a shared house or renting out your own apartment, you'll find yourself having a limited amount of space to work with. This primarily stems from land scarcity within the country, with 73% of the land available to us being considered mountainous, with another large percentage of the country's flat land serving as farmland and a means for agricultural purposes. There is also the issue surrounding overcrowding within Japan's urban areas. Due to these factors, inflation amongst properties is rife, thus, resulting in many residents turning to small dwellings.

Cabin on the Border: What the Architects Learned from Living in a Tiny House

Andreea Cutieru — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:30:00 +0000

Architects Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş from SO? Architecture&Ideas were attracted to the idea of having the opportunity to escape the urban bustle of Istanbul into a natural setting, and in 2017, they designed and built the Cabin on the Border. Since its completion, the project has undergone several changes, and the dwelling experience prompted the architects to re-evaluate their initial ideas and assumptions and change how they see the tiny house typology. Five years after the project's design, the architects share what they've learned from living in a tiny house, providing valuable insight for the design of such projects.

Skylark Cabin / Barry Connor Design

Hana Abdel — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Gently nestled into the tussock grasslands at the foothills of the Ben Ohau range sits the Skylark Cabin.

The Studio Plug-in / Chathurika Kulasinghe - Architect

Hana Abdel — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The “studio plug-in” is a renovation project that derives it’s name from it’s spatial design- a linear studio space that is plugged into an existing 50-year-old single story family residence. This studio space designed for accommodate the basic requirements for a simple lifestyle; a place to work, prepare a meal and a space to relax and unwind at the end of a day’s work.

Elo Studio / Ticiane Lima Arquitetura & Interiores

Valeria Silva — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The architect was inspired by a work of art to present the new post-pandemic home concept in a compact project inside a Container in São Paulo. 'The new home' is the theme of the Janelas CASACOR 2020 exhibition, an event that brings a reflection on innovations in architecture and décor of post-pandemic houses. Invited as part of the cast, the architect Ticiane Lima presents the Elo Studio. The environment is divided into kitchen, office, bathroom, bedroom and rooftop, and occupies a 15 m² showcase container. The space will be on display, through glass, between November 8 and December 8, at Praça Vinicius de Morais - Morumbi, in São Paulo. For those who want a more in-depth visit, all the internal details can be seen virtually on the windowscasacor.com website.

Bivouac Under Grintovec Shelter / Miha Kajzelj architect

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Bivouac is located in the Kamnik Alps 30km north of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The site is a mountain plateau 2080m high above sea level. Bivouac is situated by the path wich leads from the valley towards mountain Skuta (2400m) and is accessable only by walk. The bivouac replaces the old bivouac that was built in 1972.

Sisters Houses / Daher Jardim Arquitetura

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The sister houses are two small semi-detached and mirrored residences, each measuring 40m², located in a residential neighborhood in Brasília. The work was implemented in such a way that those who walk down the street see only a white wall that does not reveal what is happening inside, in the other direction the houses open with large openings to the garden, creating a rich interior - exterior relationship, and thus, allowing good lighting and ventilation of internal spaces.

Archigram and the Dystopia of Small-Scale Living Spaces

Mónica Arellano — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:00:00 +0000

Until recently, the origins of the tiny-house movement were of little interest to the scientific community; however, if we take a look at the history of architecture and its connection to the evolution of human lifestyles, we can detect pieces and patterns that paint a clearer picture of the foundations of this movement that has exploded in the last decade as people leave behind the excesses of old and opt for a much more minimalist and flexible way of life.

Seroro House / Smaller Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The microhouse is called as Seroro which means vertically as the house is built vertically, rooms stacked vertically and its residents live in vertically. Seroro is located at the heart of Seoul where the price of land is excruciatingly high. However, as people thought that the land was too small to construct anything and the site had been abandoned for some time, the price of land for the site had become reasonable. So, a young couple, an architect husband and a wine educator wife, made a brave decision to build their first house. Other than too small of land, the site has many benefits, conveniently situated with several lines of public transportation, as well as faced with a park and a cultural heritage the Fortress Wall of the old town of Seoul.

Tiny Houses on Wheels: Flexibility and Mobility in Small Scale Architecture

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:35:00 +0000

It is not clear where and when the wheel was invented, but according to American anthropologist David Anthony, author of a book on the history of the wheel, there is a series of archaeological evidence of wheeled vehicles dating from 3400 BC in Eurasia and the Middle East. Since its creation, the wheel has revolutionized the way human beings handle many activities, especially moving around.

Micro Living in China: Tiny Houses as an Innovative Design Solution

Scarlett Miao — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:00:00 +0000

According to the United Nation’s “The World’s Cities in 2018”, it is estimated that, “by 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 percent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants.” Also, between 2018 and 2030, it is estimated that the number of cities with 500,000 inhabitants or more is expected to grow by 23 percent in Asia. China, as the largest economy in Asia, with a GDP (PPP) of $25.27 trillion, is expanding rapidly, both economically and demographically.