Micro.Scopic.Living
Microscopic living space is nothing new for big-city residents. In New York, a studio apartment can often run 300 square feet and smaller, and in San Francisco, you can legally nest in something as small as a cozy 220 square feet. But these days, tiny doesn’t have to mean crummy and cramped. In fact, some micro-apartments can be downright cool while being cost effective.
Plans for New York City’s first micro-unit community launched in January after Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners of a competition to design the city’s first micro-unit apartment building. The 55 modular spaces in the winning “My Micro NY” proposal range between 250 and 370 square feet.
Mimi Hoang, a principal of nArchitects, the design end of the three-prong winning team, said that high ceilings will add a feeling of spaciousness and sliding glass doors to Juliette balconies will make renters feel a connection to the city. Though compact, the apartments will sport a car trunk’s 70 cubic feet worth of overhead loft space; deep closets and kitchens with full height, pull out pantries and fold out counters.
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