Small spaces are trendy. In New York, they’re also a necessary reality.Remember this 90-square-foot apartment?
In 2005, Eric Schneider, a third-grade teacher, bought the largest space he could afford in Manhattan: a 450-square-foot studio apartment.
It was twice the size of the apartment he lived in while teaching in Japan.
"It was basically an open rectangular space," Schneider told Fair Companies. "There wasn't much to it, there was just a couple of old closets, an old corner kitchen and that was it.”
Architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects reconfigured Schneider’s tiny home into an origami-like space, in which four distinct living spaces — a bedroom, an office and library, a guest bedroom and a living room — and countless other configurations all tuck into an oversized blue cabinet.
Watch Chen’s tour of the inspiring tiny space, dubbed the “Unfolding Apartment,” below.
Manhattan ‘Origami’ apartment unfolds into four rooms
