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This Award-Winning Micro-Housing Design Is Inspired by Bubble Tea

A new building of ultra-tiny apartments in Seoul will enforce neighborliness as residents navigate shared spaces "like the ambiguous gel around a tapioca pearl."
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SsD Architecture + Urbanism

A 120-square-foot nook is nobody's dream apartment. A new housing development in Seoul built around such tiny units might, in fact, cause some folks nightmares. Yet the Songpa Micro-Housing project could totally work for people who don't mind the prospect of living as if they were suspended in a giant vat of bubble tea.

At least, I think that's the metaphor Single Speed Design Architecture + Urbanism (SsD) was going for. The architect designed a series of living units—each of them ostensibly 120 square feet—within a series of semi-public living spaces.