Small Homes, Big Ideas
Sponsored by TAMLYN
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the multiple factors driving the trend toward smaller home sizes.
- Discuss ways that very small apartment layouts can be optimized to provide a sense of openness and spaciousness.
- Define key design elements that can help create a sense of community and connection in multi-building development projects.
- Describe innovative strategies for optimizing steeply sloping sites.
Credits:
This test is no longer available for credit
Yes, in My Backyard: A sympathetic design raises the bar for affordable housing in a not-so-affordable city.
Living Small in the Big City: Adapting to a changing program, an inventive project in Seoul mixes micro and small apartments with arts-focused functions.
As cities wrestle with an affordable-housing crisis, some people see micro units as one option to explore.
Slice of life: A new condominium building in an old waterfront section of San Francisco sparks up the neighborhood with its serrated facade.
Screen Test: On a midblock infill site, a pristine box wrapped in layers of clean-edged metal is a stylish antidote to its surroundings.
Sunshine State of Mind: A low-income housing project brings together seniors and families in a residential development designed to respect its neighbors and accommodate the subtropical climate.
Second Time Around: The reimagining of two city blocks is helping to shape a new identity for one of San Francisco's bleakest neighborhoods.
Working All the Angles: Kazuyo Sejima designs 10 apartments united by a sequence of overlapping roof planes in Kyoto.
Originally published in March 2017