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Big Ideas, Small Buildings: Some of the best, Small Projects of

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Big Ideas, Small Buildings: Some of Architecture's Best, Tiny Projects, Suzuko Yamada, Pillar House, Tokyo, Japan. Image © Iwan Baan/TASCHEN
Suzuko Yamada, Pillar House, Tokyo, Japan. Image © Iwan Baan / TASCHEN

This article was published in The Architectural Review that "size does not matter: Big ideas for small buildings. "

last volume Taschen brings outsiders architecture that, despite their minute, fanciful shapes, set new trends for bold design.

When economies falter and construction stops, what happens to architecture? Instead of forgiving personal projects, the need for small and perfectly formed space becomes an economic necessity, pushing designers to do more with less in their new small volume.! Architecture Now, Taschen drew together tea rooms, cabins, saunas and dollhouses trend-setting for breakfast, sensible and sustainable, with designers from Pritzker Laureate Shigeru Ban to the emergence of young practices

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Terunobu Fujimori, Beetle's House, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK. Image Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London/TASCHEN Jorge Gracia, Endémico Resguardo Silvestre, Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, Mexico. Image © Undine Pröhl/TASCHEN Kota Mizuishi, Riverside House Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. Image © Hiroshi Tanigawa/TASCHEN Olson Kundig, Delta Shelter, Mazama, Washington, USA. Image © Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects/TASCHEN 14

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Terunobu Fujimori, Beetle's House, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK. Image Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London/TASCHEN
Terunobu Fujimori, House, Victoria Beetle & Albert Museum, London, UK. Victoria Image courtesy and Albert Museum, London / TASCHEN

BEETLE AT HOME V & A Museum, London BY Terunobu Fujimori

Built as part of the '1: Exposure 1 Architects Build small spaces 2010 "at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fujimori teahouse on stilts refers to the Japanese tradition independent small teahouse structures. as written Fujimori, a Japanese tea house is the only example of a small building recognized as a building type.

Coal, representative of black tea has been used for interior and exterior finishes to create an intimate refuge. Fujimori initially wanted to suspend the tea room, although for the exposure of this proved impossible and was rather high on legs .

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Crosson Clarke Carnachan, Hut on Sleds, Whangapoua, New Zealand. Image © 2012 Simon Devitt/TASCHEN
Crosson Clarke Carnachan, Hut on Sleds, Whangapoua, New Zealand. Image © 2012 Simon Devitt / TASCHEN

HUT ON SLEDS NEW ZEALAND BY CROSSON CLARKE Carnachan

Located in a coastal erosion area on the Coromandel Peninsula, the cabin was needed to be removable. The result is a small building that can be moved on the beach on wooden sleds and loaded on a barge with ease, described the practice as "unplug and go. '

With a natural palette of materials inspired by beach lifeguard towers and artifacts, the macrocarpa clad wood cabin can accommodate a family of five. The coating can be either high to create awnings or closed to the elements and the "flat sheet rear, a traditional material for cheap New Zealand holiday, covers the structure. The result is a sensible flexible configuration to meet his precarious situation in a dune environment.

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Jorge Gracia, Endémico Resguardo Silvestre, Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, Mexico. Image © Undine Pröhl/TASCHEN
Jorge Gracia, endemico Resguardo Silvestre, Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, Mexico. Image © Undine Pröhl / TASCHEN

endemico resguardo SILVESTRE IN MEXICO BY GRACIA STUDIO

Gracia studio, founded by Mexican Jorge Gracia Garcia, strewn across a 99 hectare site their "design hotels in Baja California, with a cellar to meet wine-producing region. Garcia studio were invited to observe the setting as much as possible, which resulted in steel skeletons floating above the ground.

Core-Ten steel cladding continues to dusty orange hue of the region and provides weather resistance. The hotel rooms have been conceived as forming a luxury camping site, offering the closeness of nature and the basic living requirements.

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Haugen/Zohar, Fireplace for Children, Trondheim, Norway. Image © Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter/TASCHEN
Haugen / Zohar, Home for Children, Trondheim, Norway. Image © Haugen / Zohar Arkitekter / TASCHEN

HOME FOR CHILDREN IN NORWAY BY Haugen / Zohar

Working with a limited budget (something Oslo-born Marit Haugen Justine and Dan Zohar Israel are familiar with) this little shack in Trondheim used waste materials from a nearby construction site. 80 pin layers circles sitting on top of a concrete base, gradually reducing their shelves to create a gumdrop-shaped fireplace. A curved sliding door can be used to close the interior fireplace. In addition to receiving an honorable mention in the Trondgeim Price Municipality Building, the home was included in the top 25 for Emerging Architecture Awards 09 AR.

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Toyo Ito, Home-for-Al l in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan. Image © Iwan Baan/TASCHEN
Toyo Ito, Home-for-Al l in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, in Japan. Image © Iwan Baan / TASCHEN

HOME FOR ALL IN IWATE, JAPAN BY TOYO ITO

After 70% of the city of Rikuzentakata was destroyed by an earthquake in March 2011, Toyo Ito called the three young architects, Kumo Inui, Sou Fujimoto and Akihisa Hirata, to design a "home for all, place where residents could "win the peace of mind and feed their energy to rebuilding the city."

photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, the Japan Foundation and a range of other organizations supported the construction of ten-meter -high cedar structure, the spiral plan that creates platforms that seem suspended in the raised area.

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Kota Mizuishi, Riverside House Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. Image © Hiroshi Tanigawa/TASCHEN
Kota Mizuishi, Riverside House Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. Image © Hiroshi Tanigawa / TASCHEN

RIVERSIDE HOUSE IN TOKYO BY KOTA MIZUISHI

On a small triangular field seated between a river and a road, Kota Mizuishi designed this small accommodation for a couple and their daughter. A dining room and kitchen take up most of the floor space, and the living room has windows on both sides to mark the location of the house.

A long overhang helps make the most of the tiny lot, with a mezzanine that looks to the sky and down to the river, topped with a sheet steel roof galvanized.

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SOL DUC CABIN IN WASHINGTON BY OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS. Image © Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects/TASCHEN
CABIN FLOOR WASHINGTON DUKE ARCHITECTS BY OLSON Kündig. Image © Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects / TASCHEN

SOL DUC CABIN IN WASHINGTON ARCHITECTS BY OLSON Kündig

Built in the Olympic Peninsula, steel cab Olson Kundig is high on steel columns to protect against occasional flooding. The client requested a virtually indestructible cabin that would be low maintenance and used during fishing trips.

A small mezzanine is located above a seating area and kitchen, with a steel deck extends to provide views of the river.

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Olson Kundig, Delta Shelter, Mazama, Washington, USA. Image © Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects/TASCHEN
Olson Kundig, Delta Shelter, Mazama, Washington, USA. Image © Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects / TASCHEN

DELTA SHELTER IN WASHINGTON ARCHITECTS BY OLSON Kündig

Similar to the Sol Duc cabin, this shelter in Mazama is also raised on piles, which also provides views of the surrounding nature. A crank mechanism allows opening of steel components that provide defense against severe weather.

The remote location means that the Delta Shelter had to be prefabricated and assembled on site.

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REX, Madison Avenue (Doll)House, New York, New York, USA. Image © James Lattanzio/TASCHEN
REX, Madison Avenue (Doll) House, New York, New York , USA. Image © James Lattanzio / TASCHEN

AVENUE MADISON (DOLL) HOUSE IN NEW YORK BY REX

REX was approached by the company Calvin Klein to design a miniature house that would be displayed in the window of his Madison Avenue store during the holiday season 08-9, showing the parts of the company.

REX has taken the concept of "Calvin Klein woman," a resident of the city, and created a frivolous house in miniature, the design of the minimalist design of the store design, John Pawson and furnishing of the house with miniature Calvin Klein accessories.

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Rintala Eggertsson, Ark Booktower, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK. Image © Rintala Eggertsson, photo by Pasi Aalto/TASCHEN
Rintala Eggertsson, Ark Book Tower, Victoria & Albert Museum, London , UK. Image © Rintala Eggertsson, photo by Pasi Aalto / TASCHEN

ARK Book Tower at the V & A Museum, London BY Rintala Eggertsson ARCHITECTS

also created for the V & a Small Spaces exhibition, Rintala Eggertson built, a temporary autonomous wooden tower in the cage staircase National Art Library. Described as "an escape from the physical space of the museum in the mental space of literature", the tower is full of hundreds of used books, arranged so that the outside of the tower, only the book white edges of the book is visible.

inside is a colorful collage of thorns and book themes - 'to learn the contents of the books, you must enter the tower

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Rojkind Arquitectos, Portal of Awareness, Mexico City, Mexico. Image Courtesy of Rojkind Arquitectos, photo by Jaime Navarro/TASCHEN
Rojkind Arquitectos, Awareness Portal, Mexico City, Mexico. Image courtesy of Rojkind Arquitectos, photo by Jaime Navarro / TASCHEN

AWARENESS THROUGH PORTAL Rojkind ARQUITECTOS IN MEXICO CITY

Commissioned by Nescafé, the awareness scans Portal for one of the most important avenues of Mexico -. Paseo de la Reforma

Seven artists working with Rojkind 1500 used metal coffee cups, hanging from a woven reinforcement bar pattern found in planters in steel. The desired direction of motion is accentuated by subtle changes in color, deep red-brown to light orange

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David Salmela, Yingst Sauna Traverse City, Michigan, USA. Image © Undine Pröhl/TASCHEN
David Salmela, Yingst Sauna Traverse City, Michigan, United States. Image © Undine Pröhl / TASCHEN

Yingst FLAG AND SAUNA IN MICHIGAN THROUGH Salmela ARCHITECTURE

Located in a grove of 6.5 hectares to five kilometers from Lake Michigam, Yingst the pavilion and sauna are part of a large retirement complex, also by David Salmela Salmela of architecture.

flag uses three timber frames and dishes farms coated black Richlite panels, assuming an unusual jagged shape. White sauna is much more discreet, a simple white cube with a turf roof that allows it to blend into the forest.

PIER HOUSE TOKYO ARCHITECTS BY Suzuko YAMADA

Built at the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo in Ueno Park, pillar House was first presented as a model for the 2011 competition Arts & Life: a housing to live. "

As the winning entry, Yamada had the opportunity to build a large-scale version of the model. Yamada drew on what she saw as the traditional family pillar "as the old Japanese houses tend to have at their center, and devised several in a house to create a feeling of openness and shelter.

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QUINTA BOTANICA IN PORTUGAL BY SHIGERU BAN. Image Courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects
QUINTA BOTANICA IN PORTUGAL BY Shigeru Ban. Image courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects

QUINTA BOTANICA IN PORTUGAL BY SHIGERU BAN

Built on a cliff overlooking the ocean in the southern region of Portugal, the Quinta Botanica site belongs to an art collector and plant. The structure of Shigeru Ban is both an installation and a residence for artists and botonists visit. Structurally identical to 1995 Paper House Ban, wood joints, paper tubes and lag bolts are the basis, a system that is able to withstand lateral forces and vertical loads. The project avoids the felling of trees by weaving through the wooded area, gradually decreasing in width. Due to local concerns about the stability of the structure, the owner ordered himself piece by piece materials, the project over a time period of ten years

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