--- title: "MICROLIVING" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/special/microliving" language: "en" type: "special" description: "From custom-made luxury apartments to shrunken electrical devices: the new concepts for living in small spaces combine flexibility with comfort. More:" published: "2019-07-01T12:00:00+02:00" modified: "2023-06-01T11:38:47+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # MICROLIVING ![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/visuals/_2560x1024_crop_center-center_90_none/Microliving_Hero_190708_104455.jpg) ## MICROLIVING Whether a house on 19 square metres, multifunctional furniture or electrical household equipment in miniature format: we give you an insight into current microliving projects and show how living in a small space can be comfortable, flexible and individual. [MICROLIVING Small houses, big book 6/1/2023 Our author Florian Heilmeyer has taken a good look at “Small Houses. Homes for our Times” by Philip Jodidio and reports on superfluous sustainability dressing, hollow buzzwords, and an inspiring collection themed around living in the smallest of spaces.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/small-houses-homes-for-our-times-philip-jodidio-taschen-microliving-book-stylepark-magazine) [MICROLIVING A lighthouse for Paris 1/26/2022 Java Architecture have redensified a backyard in Paris with a micro-residential tower that cleverly shifts between proximity and distance.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/java-architecture-paris-microliving-tower-stylepark) [MICROLIVING Built collage 1/17/2022 In the project "Six houses and a garden" Fala Atelier has transformed two buildings in Porto into six micro-apartments that convince with a poetic composition.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/collage-fala-atelier-porto-microliving-stylepark) [FEATURED Places of inspiration 6/3/2022 The BettePlaces showroom from Bette presents bathroom architecture in the form of micro houses. This includes a pavilion designed for a snow-covered mountain landscape in Japan.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/bette-betteplaces-showroom-tinyhouse-stylepark) [MICROLIVING In a row 12/20/2021 In London, Stephen Taylor Architects have designed 3.50-meter-wide terraced houses that exemplify what affordable and architecturally sophisticated housing can look like.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/terraced-houses-hackney-london.stephen-taylor-architects-stylepark) [MICROLIVING Holiday at home 7/15/2020 It is never too late to realize a lifelong dream – a fact demonstrated by a building in Esslingen in South Germany. An older couple built a tiny house there on a low budget that is perfectly tailored to their needs.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/finckh-architekten-so-tiny-house-seniors) [MICROLIVING Appropriation from above 6/30/2020 "Who owns the roof?”, ask Jakob Wirth and Alexander Zakharov. And they did not rest content with the question: In the form of the "Penthaus à la Parasit", a Tiny House made of wood with stainless steel cladding, they investigate the right to privileged living.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/penthaus-a-la-parasit-jakob-wirth-alexander-zakharov-roof-tiny-house) [MICROLIVING Comfort in small spaces 7/9/2019 The trend towards microliving is not new, but for some time now the idea has been increasing in popularity again. What are the new concepts all about?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/microliving-microappartment-tiny-houses-minimalism-declutter) [MICROLIVING Wet room or open bathroom? 7/8/2019 A range of different options exist for the future of bathrooms in micro-apartments. We show you exciting new ideas and products.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/microbathroom-microliving-minispa) [MICROLIVING Less is more 6/9/2019 The architect Takeshi Hosaka has built a 19 square metre home in Tokyo, which, like a sacred building, stands for frugality.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/microliving-takeshi-hosaka-love2house-tokio) [MICROLIVING Darling, I've shrunk the kitchen 6/17/2019 Living on less than 30 square metres generally means that there is little space left for the household. Miniature electrical devices ensure that comfort is not missed out.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/electrical-devices-microliving-small-kitchen) [MICROLIVING Authentic craft 6/13/2019 For the last 150 years Müller small living has been manufacturing all of its products itself. Yet with their purist formal language and multifunctional character, the wood furniture items are still up-to-date in 2019.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mueller-small-living-craft-microliving) [MICROLIVING A room in the floor 6/27/2019 The Dutch designer Juul de Bruijn puts the storage space at her feet with "More Floor".](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/morefloor-juul-de-bruijn-storage-microliving) [MICROLIVING Flexibility down to the last detail 6/6/2019 Efficient use – this is the core of every consideration for the design of small living spaces. KC Design Studio have perfected this concept to 42 square metres in Taipei.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kc-design-studio-apartment-x-taiwan-microliving) [MICROLIVING 22 square meters in Taipei 7/5/2019 This tiny apartment was tailored by the studio A Little Design to precisely fit the needs of its occupant.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/micro-apartment-taipei-microliving-a-little-design) [MICROLIVING Living in the Tube 7/1/2019 How James Law from Hong Kong converts concrete water pipes into modular dwellings to mitigate the housing shortage and homelessness.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/james-law-opod-housing) [MICROLIVING The smaller the space, the more valuable the room 7/9/2019 How Ori intends its movable multi-purpose furniture to create storage and usable space in microliving scenarios.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ori-living-yves-behar) [STYLEPARK MINI The breathing house 4/10/2017 In Milan, MINI LIVING is exploring contemporary forms of living with a confined footprint. The “Breathe” installation, devised in collaboration with New York architects SO - IL in a Milan inner courtyard, provides space for up to three people, developing new urban space for occupation.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mini-living-and-new-york-based-architects-so-il-developed-installation-breathe-on-show-during-the-salon-del-mobile-2017-in-milan) [STYLEPARK MINI Totems for micro-living 5/2/2018 In Milan, MINI LIVING showed the installation MINI LIVING – BUILT BY ALL, developed in cooperation with London-based architecture firm Studiomama. Fabian Peters spoke to Oke Hauser, Creative Lead MINI LIVING, and Studiomama founder Nina Tolstrup about the project.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mini-living-built-by-all-milan-2018) [STYLEPARK MINI The future of living 1/1/2018 In presentations worldwide car brand MINI has demonstrated how to maximize small footprints with its MINI LIVING installations. Now things are getting serious: The first MINI LIVING co-living destination is to be built in Shanghai and construction work is scheduled to start this year.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mini-living-shanghai) [ISH 2017 A small gem 3/22/2017 It’s not always easy to find design ideas for small bathrooms. So all the nicer that at the ISH you can even view stylish systems for compact rooms, too.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/small-bathrooms-design-ideas-ish) [STYLEPARK MINI Shared space is double the space 4/20/2016 In large cities, there’s an ever greater shortage of affordable apartments. Automaker MINI teamed up with the architects at Yokohama’s ON design and the Berlin office of international engineering consultancy Arup to create a remarkable solution – for the Salone del Mobile 2016.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/shared-space-is-double-the-space) [ARCHITECTURE Living chambers 2/27/2017 Nils Holger Moormann has devised a box for micro-apartments – you can sleep, work and eat in it or on it, and store your stuff, too. Not a big thing, but the real thing.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/living-box-nils-holger-moormann-microappartment)