![]() ![]() ![]() This means we can remove the kitchen skylight. With a side passage, we can add external windows to the kitchen and dining room. If we increase the land width to 5 meters (16 feet) we have enough width to join the lightwell to the backyard with a side passage. The rear of the house has large glass doors that open onto a deck. This living room is pushed to the full width of the land to maximize internal space.Ī skylight is placed above the kitchen to provide good natural light. Bedroom 2 and the bathroom have external windows into the lightwell.Īn open-plan living room is accessed by a door at the end of the hallway. The bathroom is narrower than the bedrooms to make way for a lightwell.Ī lightwell is a small outside area that allows for ventilation and natural light through external windows. A lightwell provides ventilation and natural lightįollowing the bedrooms, the hallway continues past a bathroom. My responsive house is designed like a typical terrace house, it starts with a hallway past two bedrooms. A row of joined terrace houses in Sydney, Australia Terrace houses that share boundary walls are quite common in many cities. This means you will often be sharing side boundary walls with the houses next door. With land this narrow, your house needs to take up the full width of the plot. You can go narrower, but you'll need to get creative! (See my 3 meter wide driveway house plans for some examples) 4 Meter Wide HouseĤ meters (13 feet) is about the narrowest you can go with a traditional, single-story house. So to honor this philosophy, let's go through the various features of this responsive house starting at its narrowest. This means you design for small screens first, then progressively add more design complexity as screens get larger. In web design, it's best practice to implement a 'mobile-first' approach. Full explanation after the floor plan: 4m 5m 6m 7m 8m 9+m Watch the house change design to fit the available space. Introducing the world's first responsive house plan: Responsive House PlanĪdjust the land width by clicking the buttons. With architecture, I like to design city houses that fit into narrow gaps or awkward spaces.Īnd with web design, I'm always building responsive layouts that adjust to fit on any size screen. Two of my biggest passions in life are small-house architecture and web design. ![]() Responsive House Plan (Web Design Meets Architecture!) ![]()
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