Studio Home / William Samuels Architects
- Space:
42 m²
Yr:
2022
Producers: Autex, APL NZ, Jacobsen, Polyfloor, Valchromat MDF colored
Textual content description supplied by the architects. The Studio Home is a compact single-bedroom dwelling and is an exploration of residing small, affordably, and sustainably. At solely 42m2 the home is compact, related in nature to a studio residence. However though small it has been designed to be match for objective, a snug dwelling for a pair that enables for a excessive diploma of liveability with out the necessity for compromise.
Constructed by the house owners on a meager $ 150,000 NZD funds, the Studio Home is constructed upon leasehold land, thereby eliminating the upfront prices related to buying a bit. Consequently, the home wanted to be relocatable, permitting it to be simply moved upon completion of the lease, which knowledgeable the bodily constraints of the home. We developed a collection of interconnected modules that may be faraway from their foundations and individually relocated, every inside the most dimensions of a trailer.
To create a better sense of quantity inside the slim modules they’re joined by way of an open ‘pinwheel’ plan, the place every purposeful area inside the dwelling connects to a bigger conjoined central space, leading to a collection of areas with shared volumes. If required, extra modules could be added at a later level so as to add bedrooms, workspaces, or different areas. The home in its current kind is in no way the completed entity, fairly it’s a manifestation of the wants of this second in time and is prone to develop and evolve as these wants change.
The first formal gesture is the creation of excessive barrel-vaulted ceilings inside every module. Giant format curved home windows on the ends of every barrel usher in mild and supply an outlook in direction of tree canopies while sustaining a way of privateness from the neighbors. The window frames are hidden inside the wall cavity, creating the looks of a void, or opening on the finish of every vault. A loft above the lavatory supplies a secondary residing area inside the coronary heart of a barrel vault, a comfortable studying room with a shocking outlook. Pure supplies have been chosen wherever attainable, and no paint has been used on this mission.
Although small, the Studio Home makes an attempt to deal with some massive concepts. As an exploration of an inexpensive path to dwelling possession, a extra sustainable method to constructing, and a testomony to the liveability of smaller areas, the home serves as a mannequin for an alternate mode of residing and as a radical departure in how we take into consideration ‘dwelling.’
