Compact living in modern urban contexts: the raumplus Intelligence Series | News | Architonic
From forest tipis and mirrored treehouses to the cave a man called Gisbert has been inhabiting for 35 years on a remote Aeolian Island and Le Corbusier’s Villa Le Lac in Switzerland, I’ve always been attracted to small, unique spaces. It is as if their minute size conversely sparks my imagination in an expansive way. When I visited Japan, I was fascinated by their innate ability to occupy reduced footprints. One morning, I ran to see the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, which had me thinking about how urban life could get so compact. The sight of it, indeed, encapsulated so much of modern society: our search for convenience and the…
