On June 6, 2024 The Cabanon was featured on the daily Dutch news programme “EditieNL" in the national TV channel RTL4.
The video can also be found on the website RTL.nl (11"03) : www.rtl.nl/nieuws/uitzendingen/video/60f72f8c-3c33-490e-b64e-82aa5214e273/aflevering-158
Reportage by : Eise Pulles
Presented by : Jetske Schrijver and Steef van Stiphout
The Cabanon is designed by STAR strategies + architecture in collaboration with BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design).
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The Cabanon is a fully equipped apartment of 6.89m² including an infrared-sauna and a whirlpool-bath. It is organized into four spaces, extravagantly different in materials and heights: a 3m-high living-room, a 1.14m-high bedroom with plenty of storage, a toilet with a rain-shower, and a spa.
The Cabanon is probably the smallest apartment in the world; certainly the smallest with a spa.
The Cabanon is the conversion of an existing storage into a living space. It is located on the top floor of a 1950’s residential building in Rotterdam. Its inside dimensions are H: 3m, W: 1,97m, L: 3,6m. It has a 6m² window overlooking the city.
The Cabanon takes its name from the eponymous cabin of Le Corbusier and it has also been conceived by the same architects who will use it. It is half the size of Le Corbusier’s unit and - unlike his Cabanon - fully autonomous and designed for a couple.
It is a manifestation of the desires of its owners for their second home. They wanted a small bed to sleep close and a bench along the window. They didn’t need a large kitchen as they love to eat out during weekends. They wished to have a rain-shower, infrared saunas, and a whirlpool bath.
The Cabanon is an experiment in space; a temple in the proportions of its owners, who increasingly saw personal growth in voluntary reduction. However, this reduction was never understood as austerity. The Cabanon is of the most luxurious smallness, an “epicurean reduction”.
CREDITS :
- Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Programme: Living unit + spa
- Date: 2014-2023
- Type: Renovation
- Surface: 6.89 m² (net.) - Volume : 21.19 m³
- Design Team: STAR strategies + architecture in collaboration with BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design)
_Team STAR: Beatriz Ramo with Geoffrey Clamour; Images: Efraín Pérez del Barrio, Ivan Guerrero Jiménez
_Team BOARD: Bernd Upmeyer
_Thanks to: Ana Beatriz López- Angulo, Javier Ramo, Ana Ramo, and Danae Zachariaki + Claudia Consonni from BOARD.
- Construction : Midwinter - Timmerwerk & Decoratie (Arjen van Caspel and Mirjam Groenendijk)
- Models-Dancers: Guido Dutilh and Boston Gallacher
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