The first thing that comes to mind when I hear people complain about their space being to small is Le Cabanon.
Le Cabanon de Vacanes or simply Le Cabanon is a 13sqm holiday home built in the South of France by Architect, Le Corbusier ( Charles Edouard Jeanneret- Gris. This Project is the only one that the Architect built for his own personal use.
In my first week at Istituto Marangoni Design School, we learnt about Le Cabanon and had to design our own. The obvious thing in this clever space is that Le Corbusier put all wants aside and focussed on necessity. The Designer provides himself with a Bed, a tabletop, a toilet, a sink and storage. He didn’t bother with a kitchen because the cabin was attached to a café owned by friends of Le Corbusier and so he got all his meals from there. The only thing that I feel wasn’t taken into consideration and may have been a problem is the Bathroom. I had this at the back of my mind when designing my own Cabanon.
Space management is very important. There is no space that can’t be managed. A space may be too small to fit a dining table for 4 or a storage unit with sliding shelves but its definitely not too small to eat in or store books. No matter how much space you have, if you are trying to design your space to fit every single design idea or image you have saved on pinterest, you will always crave more space.
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