Growing up comes with a lot of challenges: jobs, relationships, emotional upheaval, and housing, to name a few. While those first three trials are unavoidable rites of passage that everyone must tackle, the last can at least be mitigated by outside assistance.

Just take the work of Grimshaw Architects for example. The London-based firm has recently started designing tiny homes for Nestd, a non-profit social extension of Kids Under Cover, which itself is a charity dedicated to solving the problem of homelessness among Australia’s youth.
Lending A Helping Hand
Grimshaw won the Kids Under Cover Cubby House Challenge back in 2017 with a set of innovative, affordable housing designs. Their victory led them to become more involved with the project, which soon grew to include IKEA furniture in its plans. Grimshaw and Nestd were tasked with designing rooms that would perfectly complement the Scandinavian furniture giant’s pieces. Tim Angus, an associate at Grimshaw’s Melbourne office, said of the project: “We’d been following the tiny house movement for quite a while, and we wanted to produce something that had a bit of a different offering. Typical tiny houses are seriously tiny and essentially a studio space, like a developed caravan. What we were looking to provide was more of a livable, high-quality piece of design with a small size and at an affordable price point. It’s definitely a feel-good thing.”

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