On Compact Home: A Global Phenomenon
With increasing demands for housing to combat the hyper-urbanised population, compact living has become a popular global phenomenon. The fight for personal space within a high-density society of heightened living standards has never been so challenging. Projects of EDGE are designed with time-based transformation in mind for users to experience a much more spacious living condition without compromising the quality of living. By careful design consideration of space, time and material for the optimal spatial arrangement, multiple scenarios could be choreographed to suit the human behavioural pattern at different durations of the day.
Gary Chang, the Managing Director and Lead Designer of EDGE Design Institute Ltd., has a long practice of compact home and always holds the belief that “a limited space does not mean a compromised living standard”. In these projects, 7 strategies were governed to achieve maximum spatial efficiency and configuration, recede from any claustrophobic preconceptions while providing all daily necessities and amenities.