Dutch architects share details of Corbusier-inspired tiny apartment in Rotterdam
A 74-square-foot apartment design in Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second-largest city, is gaining notoriety online after being featured in the New York Times real estate section in late August. Image: © Ossip van DuivenbodeThe Cabanon, as its architect-owners Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer prefer to call it, takes the 1951 vacation retreat Le Corbusier designed for himself in the Côte d'Azur as inspiration and includes a living room, sleeping pod, and tiny bathroom component with a small toilet, rain-shower, and spa. Image: © Ossip van DuivenbodeEach of these spaces comes color-coded, an effect that counteracts the apparent cramping quality of the space. A series of built-ins are another pivotal inclusion, affording them space to store items for their guests behind a tangerine-colored wall. Image: © Ossip van DuivenbodeThe Times reports this to be a $23,000 project. Ramo and Upmeyer acquired the upper floor residual space in the upper portion of their post-war apartment building in...
A 74-square-foot apartment design in Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second-largest city, is gaining notoriety online after being featured in the New York Times real estate section in late August.
The Cabanon, as its architect-owners Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer prefer to call it, takes the 1951 vacation retreat Le Corbusier designed for himself in the Côte d'Azur as inspiration and includes a living room, sleeping pod, and tiny bathroom component with a small toilet, rain-shower, and spa.
Each of these spaces comes color-coded, an effect that counteracts the apparent cramping quality of the space. A series of built-ins are another pivotal inclusion, affording them space to store items for their guests behind a tangerine-colored wall.
The Times reports this to be a $23,000 project. Ramo and Upmeyer acquired the upper floor residual space in the upper portion of their post-war apartment building in...
