Seven tiny houses, every meter of which is perfect

Probably, many of us know what it's like to live in cramped conditions. But not always a little means bad. Modern designers and architects believe that the main thing is not how many square meters your home has, but how well they are used. This collection presents seven of the most amazing examples of creating a cozy and comfortable home in conditions of constraint.

Keret House is one of the narrowest residential buildings in the world. This original structure appeared several years ago in the gap between two large buildings in the very center of Warsaw.

The house appeared with the light hand of the Polish architect Jakub Szczesny, who once drew attention to a long-standing gap between the houses. Its width was only 1.22 meters, but this did not discourage Yakub's desire to fill the gap with an extraordinary house. It is worth admitting that he succeeded.

The result was an unusual two-story structure. On its first level there is a toilet with a shower and a kitchen, and on the second-a bedroom with a work desk. Both floors are connected by a narrow vertical staircase.

Sculpture (IT) is an architectural duo from Belgium, who created an unimaginable four-story building in a span of only 2.5 meters in the very center of Antwerp.

For a long time, the architects could not decide what exactly should be built on this small plot of land-a house or an office, but in the end they decided on the solution of combining both functions in one house. On the ground floor of the building there is an office, and above-residential and public rooms.

At the same time, the most interesting element of the house from the Sculpture (IT) studio is rightfully considered to be the bathroom. Due to lack of space, it had to be located on the roof in the open air. But what a view opens in the evenings!

The headquarters of Sculpture (IT) looks even more spectacular in the evenings, when each of its floors is illuminated with multi-colored lighting, which makes the house itself and the surrounding street acquire an incredible atmosphere.

It seemed that 40 square meters was not enough even for a normal one-room apartment, but the architectural studio Sfaro Architects from Israel managed to place an apartment with four rooms on this area.

The secret of this miracle of architecture lies in the special circular organization of the premises. In the center of the apartment there is a block with a bathroom, around which there are four other rooms: a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a corridor.

Deception of perception works perfectly. Such a circular system creates the impression of an infinite space, and much larger than 40 square meters.

E-Village Studio is a studio apartment that recently appeared in the East Village area of Manhattan and successfully confirms the now popular trend of increasing the space of a small apartment due to a fake second floor.

To do this, it is not necessary to have high ceilings — it is enough just to place a bed on the "upper level". The useful area of the apartment has significantly increased after placing a multifunctional cabinet in it.

On one side of this cabinet there are shelves for the owner's personal belongings, on the other — a kitchen set, and on top there is a wide bed. There may not be enough space for jumping on the mattress, but there will be more than enough for a normal sleep.

The British company Dwelle promotes to the masses the idea that a house with an area of only 18 square meters can be enough for a comfortable life of a couple of people.

Dwelle.ing houses are the most affordable offer for those who want to get their own housing for the first time in their life. For a small house with a living room, a bedroom and a work desk on the second half-floor, a kitchen and a bathroom with a toilet, you will have to pay only 15 thousand pounds. With this money, you can rent a small apartment on the outskirts of London for six months.

In the houses of the Dwelle.ing series, every centimeter of space is calculated, and the slightest detail in them has its own functional purpose. The big advantage of these houses is their versatility and fast construction time — the customer can move into a new house just a week after placing the order.

Advanced architects and innovators have long been haunted by the possibility of space transformation. Spanish architect Barbara Apolloni has created a stunning transformer apartment with an area of 24 square meters in Barcelona.

As a result, she got a magical changing space in which the bed suddenly turns into a sofa, the wall into a table, the wardrobe into a refrigerator, and the table into a window.

The principle of rationalism in this case is put at the forefront. A person living in such an apartment can turn on his imagination and boldly experiment with the transformation of living space. And this allows you to use each meter of the apartment as you like twice or even three times.

The streets of New York have long been heavily overloaded with ground transport, which is why more and more motorists are abandoning their personal car. As a result, the previously terribly popular multi-level parking lots in the heart of Manhattan began to remain out of business. The conceptual project upLIFT offers to turn unnecessary parking lots into compact and inexpensive residential buildings.

The authors of the upLIFT project propose to create many small residential modules, each of which can be placed on exactly one parking space.

Each such capsule consists of a compact living room, a small kitchen, a bathroom with a toilet and a shower. At the same time, it is not necessary to immediately release the entire parking lot from cars. The modules can be installed alternately as the car owners leave the parking lot. By the way, the first floor of the upLIFT can be left for cars.