Friday, July 29, 2011

Poland’s thinnest house a tight squeeze

ArchDaily.com

ArchDaily.com

Thin is in. 

Some would see the property and call it “a crack between two buildings.” Centrala architect Jakub Szczesny saw potential in the narrow space in Warsaw’s Wola district.

Szczesny took the property sliver and designed a livable art installation called Ermitage.

When it’s completed, it will be the skinniest house in Poland — and possibly the world — measuring 72 centimetres at its narrowest and a mere 122 centimetres at its widest.

“Ermitage will be a workplace, a hermitage created for an outstanding Israeli writer, Etgar Keret.

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