Sculp(It)
April 18th, 2008
This is probably one of the smallest houses I know, it is located in Antwerp (Belgium) and was designed by Sculp(It) Architecten. It is actually their own house and office at the same time. The front side is only 2,4 meters wide and it is 5,5 meters deep. So they only have around 60 square meters to live; divided over 4 floors. The ground floor is their office, first is the kitchen / dining room, second the living room and third is the bedroom / bathroom. They acually even have a bathtub on the roof. I don’t know if I could on such a small space …
Photos by Luc Roymans.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The fact that the space is small is not such a problem. In fact this house is huge when compared to some houses in other parts of the World (Hong Kong for instance?). But would you like to take a shower on the 4th floor? Mind that there are no curtains at all. The first picture is really a picture of the front side of the house, right next to the side walk of the street. Oh and it’s located near the red light district in Antwerp. So you might see some pretty strange people passing (or actually no passing) your front windows.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Still, 60 square meters wouldn’t be enough for me and the privacy issues would be a problem too. This house is definitely different than any other one …
April 19th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
There are privacyscreens integrated in the steel structure.
Square meters are not important but have a price; freedom of space is the most important and is for free.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:21 am
This might be small for some people, but I actually live in a smaller house (3 mts wider though, just 1 floor) and it does not seem to be any problem with it… as we all know; we humans get used to anything except not eating. I would love to live in that house, and come on! we live in a different age now, there´s no problem taking a shower with those huge inviting windows wide open..and if you feel uncomfortable at least you must thank that the shower is in the 3rd floor… not visible to by-passers…. but totally visible to your 3rd floor neighbor across the street so work hard for a nice body to show off.