The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series features an extremely narrow house designed for a 3.9-metre-wide plot in Brooklyn.
Designed by New York studio Only If Architecture, the house will make use of an unused plot of land between a pair of apartment blocks in Brooklyn.
Narrow House will be situated on a small plot in Brooklyn
Only If co-founders Karolina Czeczek and Adam Snow Frampton designed the house to be their family home and hope the design will become a prototype "for how to infill overlooked parts of the city".
The house, which is currently being built on a plot that is 3.9 metres wide and 30 metres long, is designed to optimise circulation and daylight.
The site is four metres wide and 30 metres long The architects have eliminated corridors and walls through a split level configuration where each floor has a single room to serving different functions such as living, sleeping and eating.
A void around the central staircase will act as an entry point for natural light and will allow air to circulation throughout the house.
Each room of the house will take up an entire floor
The architects stated that using small or irregularly-shaped plots of land for building housing is a vital strategy to house a growing urban population.
"In the midst of the contemporary housing crisis, infill is absolutely needed as an urban strategy to produce greater quantities of housing," the pair told Dezeen.
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