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Illusion of a Forest Glade Within a Challenging City Site

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A clever and tiny floor plan creates a spacious home hidden in plain sight in a wooden box in the most impossible site imaginable – with only a view of ugly apartment towers looming over it.

Tiny courtyards within the wooden box bring in filtered light and some greenery and create a suggestion of a zen garden around each room.

By night, clever lighting transforms the same space: adopting the outside as an extension of inside.

The most astonishing part of the design is a tiny courtyard garden on each side of the short corridor in the center of the house.

Check the plan: this is a nothing corridor. Yet what a reward from that tiny created view!

Looking the other way, viewed from the living room, looking down the corridor to the entry at the end on the left, a garden on each side has a lot of bang for a very tiny buck; the garden is only two or three paces deep.

Arbol Design has created a surprising number of open and airy view spaces within the tall cedar box.

Each space has a zen quality of serenity.

Full length glazed windows open onto the small garden.

Viewed from the side of the garage, the very discrete  slightly recessed front door is almost hidden.

Coming into the driveway, the house is completely private.

The tall cedar fence not only conceals the home, but it also eliminates the view from inside of the apartments towering over it.

Most surprisingly in such a small house, every angle is perfectly thought out to provide a new and peaceful view.

Despite the lack of views or privacy offered by the challenging site, the tiny home is astonishingly open, full of light and space.