Today you’ll see a great example of what a woman did with a small piece of land without any “architectural” help: 2 rooms, kitchen, 3 bedrooms with washrooms and a veranda! This narrow house belongs to the lady in yellow – Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho , designed by her. She live in this 1 meter wide by 10 meter tall house in Madre de Deus, Brazil. At first, the municipality refused, but in the end with the plan allowed the construction, that became a touristic spot of the small town of 12 thousand people. I think that this project is a very unique idea and something like this could be designed in big cities where the space is really a problem, but to live daily in a house like this would be exhausting. – Via – Ahboon
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Published by Michael November 6th, 2007 in Uncategorized
31 Comments
November 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
That kitchen is not 1 meter wide, just look at it. I don’t believe the dimensions that this article states.
1 meter ~ 3 feet… the fridge alone is more than 1 foot deep and you could easily fit more than 3 fridges in that kitchen. Heck, she could easily lay down in that “1 meter wide kitchen” and I doubt she is shorter than 1 meter.
I’m calling BS on this.
November 6th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
That’s an amazing house! Given some of the space problems we’re seeing in big cities I can see similar solutions being used. I would need some larger space such as a yard, or a lot of windows, but that would be the claustrophobia I inherited from my grandmother.
November 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
The name is “Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho”, not “Record Minho”
November 6th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
That kitchen isn’t a meter wide. The house is probably wedge shaped since the door might be about a meter. The house wouldn’t really solve any space issues except that it can fit in a thinner piece of land. The house must be extremely long to make for any kind of acceptable living space. placing 4 of those side by side would be the vertical equivalent of a similar sized wide building having a horizontal apartment on every level.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
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November 6th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Looking at the photo in the top-left corner, I could well believe the house is wider at the back than the front. Still, it doesn’t detract from it being a remarkable, if somewhat slightly hairball-schemed, building!
November 6th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
That building is wedge shaped, it even shows in the pc room, getting bigger as it gets longer.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Very interesting, but I’d never want to live there. It does appear that the house is wedge-shaped. The floor tile in the living room clearly shows that the walls are not parallel.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Murple……..What are you on about?!
“Given some of the space problems we’re seeing in big cities I can see similar solutions being used”
ok, so your saying we should build loads of houses like these or terraced versions. Thats a bloody stupid idea! This is just going to piss ppl off. No one in their right mind would want to live in a house like that, unless it was for the novelty factor which would wear off after one day.
and when you say “I would need some larger space such as a yard, or a lot of windows” where do you plan on putting these windows, with this great space saving idea of terraced houses?
Oh and if you actually had claustrophobia there is no way you would ever consider that to be an amazing house.
End of rant!
P.S. I’d say its nearly 3 meters wide in that kitchen.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
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November 7th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
It’s a Doctor Who house, bigger on the inside than on the outside.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Hi, I am from Brazil and this is true.
The photos are from a brazilian newspaper:
http://www.estado.com.br/editorias/2006/07/18/cid-1.93.3.20060718.29.1.xml
The kitchen is larger than 1m wide. This is because the front of the house is 1 m wide and the back is larger.
Bye!
November 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
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November 7th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Wow. Althought the space is not perfect, this house shows incredible creativity, and injenuity, definately an out of the box idea.
Building this prooves that one can utilize land spaces previously thought un-usuable by most, for housing and for other purposes. It also prooves that people actually want to live and/or work in these types of places. I could see this concept being used to make ultra small footprint offices and such.
Sure the hose may be a wedge and perhaps as large a 3m wide on the back end, so what… I still say wow! Nice utilization of the space.
She has gone where no man has gone before… in terms of archetecture anyway.
Good job to the builder, and congratulations to the owner and designer of this new and beautiful house.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
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November 7th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
yeah, sorry to be a nay sayer but that kitchen is much more than a meter wide
November 8th, 2007 at 4:47 am
quite creative, interesting concept of being able to touch both opposing walls at the same time, I personally don’t feel comfortable in such a narrow space or even 39″ hallway needs windows or at least a mural
November 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
What the skeptics don’t realise is that she is a very small woman. The house is, indeed, 1 metre wide.
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April 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
and i was worried tha the seafront house im buying, with a 13ft frontage was narrow!!! and was worried!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
A metre is around 3ft no? Those kitchen tiles are a foot square…
June 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I’m not sure if this is the narrowest house in the world. Look at this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/baio/2558474246/in/set-72157605477712364/
At least from the front it could be narrower, beacouse it’s wider on the other side.
Built in 17th century.
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September 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Back when i was a homeless rodeo clown I lived in a house like this but not anymore. Now I am a world class magician !
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
The house may be 1 meter (39.3 inches) at the front, but is
approximately 7ft wide in the kitchen. Look at the floor tiles.
The tiles are approx 1 ft (30 cm) in size. The floor is
7 tiles wide, which comes to 7ft. The “1 meter” claim is a fraud!
If you want to see a real 1 meter wide house, there is one in
Uruapan, Mexico, 5 stories high, which you can Google.
–bert–