Gallery: Muji's Tiny Prefab Houses Take Minimalism to the Extreme
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The Muji Hut project includes three prototype designs for tiny prefab country homes.
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High profile industrial designers created them. This one is by Naoto Fukasawa, Muji’s head of design.
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This one, by Jasper Morrison, is called the hut of cork.
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The houses provide you with the basics, and little more.
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Morrison’s cork hut, the largest of the three, has a spacious living area, a bathroom, and a kitchen with a stove.
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In his statement, he said, “whenever I think about going to the country for the weekend, I start imagining a small house with everything needed for a short stay, a place to cook, a place to eat, a place to wash, and a place to sleep.”
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Konstantin Grcic's two-story mini-cabin is small enough, he says, "to stay within the norm of constructions which need no building permission in Japan (3 x 3.3 x 4.5m)."
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The walls include an insulating foam core.
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Because it's open and simply designed, Grcic says, it makes the small space easily configurable to individual needs.
