How an Architect Fit 4 Rooms Into a 74-Square-Foot Rotterdam Studio | Architectural Digest

Today, AD joins architect Beatriz Ramo (STAR strategies + architecture) in Rotterdam to tour The Cabanon, a space that claims to be the biggest smallest apartment in the world. When Beatriz and her husband, Bernd Upmeyer (BOARD), discovered that a tiny 74-square-foot storage room had become available in their apartment building, they knew it was the start of their next design project. The couple envisioned fitting a whole apartment comprising four rooms into the tiny space. Through the construction of an ingenious wooden insert the couple managed to fit a bathroom, bedroom, kitchen/living space, and even a spa into such a tiny space–compartments fold out when needed and slot perfectly back into place when the resident’s activity changes.

00:00 Intro
00:57 Design Concept
03:37 Living Room/Kitchen
06:08 Bathroom
07:44 Spa
09:22 Bedroom

Director: Skylar Economy
Field Directors: Laurens Peek; Tim Treurniet
Director of Photography: David van der Meijde
Editor: Letícia Villarinho
Producer: Skylar Economy
Field Producer: Laurens Peek
Line Producer: Joe Buscemi
Associate Producer: Amanda Broll
Production Manager: Melissa Heber
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Assistant Camera: Daniel Bos; Roy van Anraat
Sound Recordist: Ton Spruit
Director of Creative Development: Morgan Crossley
Director of Content: Keleigh Nealon
Senior Producer: Alyssa Marino Williams
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Post Production Supervisor: Andrew Montague
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Senior Motion Graphics Designer: Sam Fuller
Colorist: Oliver Eid

Design: STAR strategies + architecture and BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design)
STAR - https://www.instagram.com/star_strategies_architecture/
BOARD – https://www.instagram.com/bureau_of_architecture_r_d/
Architects: Beatriz Ramo López de Angulo and Bernd Upmeyer
Team: Geoffrey Clamour; Images: Efraín Pérez del Barrio, Ivan Guerrero Jiménez; Communication: Danae Zachariaki
Thanks to: Ana Beatriz López- Angulo, Javier Ramo, Ana Ramo
Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode
Construction: Midwinter - Timmerwerk & Decoratie : Arjen van Caspel and Mirjam Groenendijk

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