Tiny Home - Big on space and style

Amsterdam-based i29 interior architects collaborated with architect Chris Collaris to design the holiday home to be spatially efficient while infusing the surrounding panorama into the design scheme.

At a compact 55 square metres, the architects ensured that the house is luxurious in space. Working from the inside out, the architects maximised on every inch of space allocating spaces for a living room, a kitchen/dining room, a patio, three bedrooms, one bathroom and two toilets.

By dividing the house into four volumes, the panoramic views and the invading sunlight become very specific. Each façade create a sculptural image, looking different from every angle. In order to intensify this sculptural quality, all facades have a minimal design with invisible roof endings and window frames detailed behind the wood facade.

All volumes have big windows or sliding doors which can be opened completely to fully merge the inside with the outside. Inside, the dimensions and ceiling heights of the different volumes clearly articulate the separate areas and functions in the house. Long sightlines crossing the outside patio provide a visual connection. By opening up large sliding doors of the patio the volumes of the kitchen and living are physically connected.

Custom furniture and integrated cabinets accentuate the graphical quality on the inside. The design team made use of simple materials like natural oak wooden panels -or stained black to combine with the rough pinewood facade- and a continuing polished concrete floor. They strived for a design strategy in which architecture and interior come together in a model combination.