A Three-Story House That Fits in a Parking Space

There's a design for a 400-square-foot house spread over three floors.

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October 17, 2017, 12:00 PM PDT

Adam Williams shares news of the Tikku house, designed by Marco Casagrande. Tikku means "stick" in Finnish, and the house lives up to the name—standing 2.5 x 5 m (8.2 x 16.4 ft), or roughly the size of a parking space.

In total, the Tikku "has a total floorspace of 37.5 sq m (403 sq ft), split over three floors," explains Williams. The prototype model includes "a work area on the first floor, a bedroom upstairs, and a small greenhouse/living space on the top floor."

The article includes 18 images of the house, which made its debut at Helsinki Design Week 2017.

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