Live Between Buildings by Mateusz Mastalski and Ole Robin Storjohann
Two Denmark architects have designed a concept for narrow apartments that fill tiny gaps between existing buildings.
Mateusz Mastalski and Ole Robin Storjohann's project Live Between Buildings proposes a series of micro-home apartments for urban living. In the designs, the tiny living quarters are proposed in playful shapes including an X, an O, a tree, a cloud, a speech bubble and a space invader.
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The designers have illustrated, in a series of diagrams, how their concept could work in highly dense cities such as New York, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Helsinki and London.
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Mastalski and Storjohann's concept recently won the annual New Vision of the Loft 2 design award, organised by roof window manufacturer Fakro and A10 new European architecture magazine. The competition asked designers to develop concepts for urban loft spaces that would be functional, space-saving, energy-efficient and full of natural light. All entries had to include Fakro products, as well as others.
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Fakro has said that the winning infill-loft dwellings could be realised entirely out of roof windows. "The possibility of shapes is endless," the firm added.
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In related news, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) in the UK published a consultation this week, about minimum space standards for new build homes.
Other micro-homes we've previously featured include Renzo Piano's tiny wooden cabin at the Vitra Campus for one inhabitant and a mini prefabricated guest house that gets delivered by helicopter.
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Images are by Mateusz Mastalski and Ole Robin Storjohann.