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World's skinniest house built in Poland
The house was squeezed between 2 existing Warsaw residential buildings.
Tue, Nov 20 2012 at 11:39 AM
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A woman rides a bike near the front of the 3-foot-wide home. (Photo: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images)
I never thought it would actually come to be. Last year I wrote about Jakub Szczęsny's design for a 3-footwide house in Warsaw, Poland.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of living in small spaces. I write about them all the time. But the Keret House is 122 cm (48.031") at its widest, 72 (28.34") at its narrowest. I know people wider than that.
I also complained that "It's like living in a squished ping pong ball." But the architect explains that this was on purpose; the walls are made of translucent plastic to let in light. The whole thing works a lot better than I ever thought it would.
Check out a video of the narrow home below.
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This story was originally written for Treehugger. Copyright 2012.
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