a+u 2023:09 Feature: ≤ 50㎡
Content
a+u’s September issue features buildings 50 m2 or less in area. After World War II, Japan faced a shortage of housing and building materials, leading to the enforcement of the Temporary Building Restriction Regulations, which prohibited, in principle, the construction, extension, and renovation of houses, shops, and offices with a floor area greater than 50 m2 . It was not until 1950 that these regulations were lifted, and in the postwar period, architects such as Kiyoshi Ikebe and Makoto Masuzawa designed minimal dwellings. As in the days of Ikebe and Masuzawa, buildings of today require striking a balance between optimizing space and ensuring comfort. This issue highlights 26 permanent, freestanding structures that range from 50 m2 to as small as 1 m2 , including a traditional minimal dwelling, an open library for refugees and migrants comprising 2 bookcases, and a prototype that interrogates speculative real estate. From minimal dwellings with all the necessary functions to single-function walls and floors, this is a presentation of architectural experiments within 50 square meters. (a+u)
Nulla Vale House and Shed
MRTN Architects
Casa Chica
AGB Arquitectos
Ing-Suk House
Yangnar Studio
Garden Library for Refugees and Migrant Workers
Yoav Meiri Architects
The Light Trap
Sher Maker
JUMPHUB
Unlimited Jakub Cigler Architekti
The House of a Novelist
100A associates
Garden House
Caspar Schols
Floating Bamboo House
H&P Architects
Miaki Atelier
Tamotsu Teshima Architect and Associates
The Brook
small.
Outbuilding with Deep Garden
Baracco + Wright Architects
Sacromonte Chapel
MAPA Arquitetos
The Line
REgroup
Outside House
FLOAT Architectural Research and Design
Lykta Fireplace
Workshop NTNU, Sami Rintala, Pasi Aalto
Superpower Wall Revitalization of Husu˚v Park
SKULL studio
DD16
BIO Architects
Base Cabin
Studio Edwards
13 m2 House
Studiomama
The Hermitage
Ilabb
Chapel of Tears
Atelier Poem
IWI Cabin
Juan Ruiz, Amelia Tapia
Diogene
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
One Square Meter House
Didier Fiúza Faustino
1sqm
BACH / Jaume Bach, Anna & Eugeni Bach