There are three more Small Footprint episodes to come, episode four will be out on the 25th of November. We’ll be taking a look at how small footprint housing can be created at a lower cost, and where the opportunities lie for cities to create more affordable homes. Meanwhile our regular Never Too Small episodes will continue releasing fortnightly. This is a different kind of series from us, but we’re excited to know what you think. Please leave us feedback and comments on the video. New episodes every Monday. If you’re an architect or designer with a project we could feature, please share it with us at www.nevertoosmall.com/submissions Featured Architects/Designers: @nightingale.housing @hipvhype Check out our merch - www.nts.store Workspace by Never Too Small - www.nts.space Website www.nevertoosmall.com Instagram instagram.com/nvtsmall/ Facebook facebook.com/nvtsmall

Would love to see more on the governance of planning and development and how to take it on. Your channel has some amazing outcomes of redeveloping older small spaces to make them work more efficiently however they all have been done by people engaged in planning and construction. How does the average joe economically achieve the same outcome?

Great video, thankyou...this video sung to me in regard to my building project here in New Zealand. Our Resource Management Act is the country's building code. It loves developments that are vanilla, simple. If you want to be creative and work outside the box, it's possible but difficult. We purchased two and a half acres that nobody wanted because it had a stream, the land sits in the middle of town. Our development is a Maori Village within an echo system, a Papakainga. We planted over 7000 native trees and plants a wetland and have the capacity on the site for 4 communal homes. It hasn't been easy, and the hurdles have been immense. Love your videos and concepts, nice to know there are others also who challenge the status quo...

This video just barely scratches the surface! I hope that it will serve as a trailer for a feature-length version soon. Australia really needs to update our housing regulations urgently. Double glazing should be mandatory in new buildings, as well as a good insulation rating. So many new apartments and townhouses are built for investors, they are not nice or comfortable to live in.

I pass Southbank frequently and my heart sinks each time. The former school is the only pleasing building. Thanks for sharing examples of poor outcomes and carefully thought out outcomes. Oh and the cruise ship analogy is a good one

Another great episode. I hope we can start to see change towards human- and eco-friendly cities. Thanks for your efforts NTS Team!

Just reposting: @NEVER TOO SMALL Could you, please, make an extra episode about small apartments and noise (e. g. how to improve sound absorption, which space-saving measurements help to add some soundproofing)? I also would like to know how people cope with living in crowded locations when there are whole families sharing the same ground-plan size above or beneath and there is no extra space/room to avoid the noise of your neighbors. I see so many quite minimalist examples on here but the echo and sound absorption must be insanely bad in some of them. Edit: (How) Do archtitects and designers take this into account; are they aware of its importance for [portions of] a world where silence has become a luxury and noise potentially is making people sick?

Brilliant! Thanks so much for doing this in Melbourne. As a uni student who is trying to wrap my head around urban planning and adjacent studies I'm lucky to have great content like this :)

I love that sentiment, that we should readjust councils' focus away from mere minimal compliance and existing, yet poorly conceived developments that benefit investors before communities, and instead provide incentives and policies to make it easier to create real communities in which people participate, love and care about.

I would love to see a video that addresses personal financing and mortgages for small living. My partner and I are desperate to find a perfect studio to renovate for small living, but acquiring a 20-40% deposit as required by the bank is a far away dream. Meanwhile they’ll lend me 95% of a multimillion dollar home. There’s no incentive to buy small when it’s actually CHEAPER (in the short term) for me to buy big!

Thanks Hip v Hype, Nightingale and Assemble for taking on these issues and coming up with ideas and solutions. Thanks NTS. This conversation is so interesting. 👏👏👏

Love the innovation potential of small apartments and tiny houses. This leaves more space for nature to abound and flourish. The bigger and more wasteful homes and cleared land are stealing much needed habitat for plants, animals, insects and human interaction out of doors. Living in smaller spaces which are comfortable and sustainable is everything we need in the way of housing.

To what the gent said towards the end of the video; I agree, the 'community' often fights against multi residential housing in Victoria for numerous reasons. While I understand the community wanting to keep what they have (single family homes, backyards, 1-2 million dollar land titles). I don't understand where they expect the residents who do not have 1.5 million dollars to go? To a place less livable? These suburbs are not (or should I say 'were not') afualant, they were middle class and lower class suburbs before the housing boom. Further, income and education differences between the single dwelling home owners and apartment dwellers can be negligible, yet Australians will often pass negative comments on who an apartment complex will attract. I'm ashamed to say Australia is becoming segregated. Not just in wealthy suburbs - but collectively. I do believe well designed apartments, multiuse, and walkable communities are the answer. We have a long way to go to stop the cookie cutter shoeboxes and change the cultural identity of apartment living in Australian minds. Great video.

Rob Adam’s is clearly a Pattern Language fan. Such intimate places in this video. Bravo

Always a pleasure to watch the videos of this serie on this channel.

It’s funny and sad hearing aussies talking about ”affordable housing” and what they mean by that is houses for like 500-600k

Really like these longer videos. Great series.

as a person living in a post communist country with only cement cells to live in, this videos are a sparkle of hope for the future 😌

Amazing! So interesting to hear about the planning process from this angle; one that I don’t think is addressed enough! Bring on incentives for sustainable, high quality development with an emphasis on integrated communities 🙏🏽🙏🏽

I am not an architect but i enjoy watching your videos🥰🥰🥰

Really like the new programing. It's funny to me how much Australia and the US are alike. As a three term planning commissioner, hearing about different and unique solutions is very important to me. Thank you.

Great video. We have to be very intentional and thoughtful in the way that we plan out and provide for the future, not just for an exclusive set of individuals but for a wider populace and those to come in the future. Bravo.

This is an excellent thought project as well. We need such local citizen collectives here in India as well. I have lived in Delhi for the last 7-8 years and have seen neighbourhoods growing vertically in a template manner- more thought is given to aesthetics and room count rather than sustainability and long term living costs. There are various municipal rules in place about allocation of your plot size for various purposes- ventilation, ground water retrenchment etc. But all of them are disregarded in most cases. Rehabilitation and regularisation of urban slums is a sensitive political topic. When it comes to housing and private property - the thinking is extremely individualistic and competitive with almost no community based considerations. Environmental impact assessments even for big projects are carried out as mere legal formality. Political consensus being the biggest hurdle- small and localised projects are the need of the hour to balance local community sentiments, the historic heritage of the city and our collective responsibility for a sustainable future. A big thank you to NTS and all collaborators to put across these issues in a fair and pragmatic manner. Cheers.

The key to the success of these homes is not being small but being smart.

It’s good that people are finally getting that where we live dictates part of our happiness… Direct environment does have an impact on mental wellbeing… I myself live in a tiny appt’ of 49 square metres. It’s next to a big street, but I have a terrace and despite the fact that it’s in an area with lots of houses there is 1 line of pine trees that are in between me and the neighbors and other houses. This view does make all the difference for me 🌲🌲🌲🍀

Cities around the world need to implement this concept. Beautiful!

doctors, nurses, baristas...ah yes, the three essentials

This is going to be sick! Yay for Melbourne

It´s crazy how the design of the bathroom just maked me feel relaxed.

9:24 "First line services, doctors, nurses, baristas..." 😅

Love that baristas are considered essential workers :)

Great episode, loving this series! please one more.

Very inspirational video. Thanks.

Omg, i fell in love at first site to Liam Wallis, its as if my soulmate from across the globe, my passion and work as home interior stylist brought me here, from philippines 🥰😇

Awesome episode! It's so therapeutic just watching it!

So impressed the challenge even though it’s big issue and difficult to change because I feel so sad to see many agree high apartments everywhere especially around city. The compact houses in Brunswick is well designed and so smart, also matched with other old buildings as well. Thanks to show us such a good episode 🥰

"...key community contributors: doctors, nurses, baristas..." - peak Melbourne.

These videos always make me so emotional 🙊 I think I studied the wrong type of design! Seriously though, these make me so excited for the future! I’d love to hear your thoughts on sustainable, smart living in historical cities. I currently live in Rome, where having people design and think in this way would be VERY helpful, but I can’t imagine the bureaucracy one would have to go through to get stuff done like this.

Great video :D Great questions asked!

Insightful as always, keep it up 👊🏼👊🏼

Very exciting to see this housing movement in Australia. Now we just need it to happen in Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, where the housing situation is becoming dire.

Thanks for bringing up these questions and solutions in such an interesting way!

That's a beautiful long format video. I enjoyed that as a change of pace, and the topic was fascinating as usual. Thank you! :)

Baristas are key community influences. Society will crumble without my oat milk latte.

I AM BEYOND EXCITED

doctors, nurses, baristas ...

In the Philippines, 30+ storey condo buildings were popping up everywhere even in low-rise low-density residential areas. Three reasons I’ve observed: 1) influx of money from overseas filipinos and mainland chinese 2) former mansions, light industrial and any sizeable lots are being converted to higher value condos 3) and most importantly local governments’ main source of revenue is property tax so they are happy to approve building projects even if the road infrastructure cannot handle construction and subsequent habitation of the buildings

Loving this series!!!!!

We are Urban Coup, and we are developing the first privately-funded co-housing venture in an inner-city suburb anywhere in Australia. The 7-storey apartment building has been co-designed by us with architects Breathe Architecture and Architecture architecture. We will have more than 160 square metres of shared kitchen/dining, two guest rooms, a music room, a Japanese-style bath house and more. We are a part of Nightingale Village in Brunswick, and we hope to be in our new home by April 2022. We are working hard to get ready for move-in, and very excited!

So relaxing to see the lights go on at 8:23 🙏🏼

I need that in Paris 🗼😅 - that we sit and plan smaller "villages" in and outside the city so that we stop planting those towering ugly buildings where people just sleep and leave for work on repeat. Europeans cities had those "villages in a town" and it's sad that at some point we decided we also needed large concrete housing. I wish we could do something to accelerate the change towards a more sustainable living approach!

Thoroughly enjoyed this. More please!

Love your documentary

👍🏼 A clear message, with stunning examples of how to get it done! Did you see this, Minneapolis? 🤔

This is an astounding series!

Fantastic video! Would love to see all governments take notes from these fabulous developers

Great doco, thanks!

Every perspective was so damn to the point.

Good design is sustainable design. Great video as always!

Great episode, very important topic, thank you!

Love the Davison Collaborative project. Innovative thinking laced with creativity. While I love the examples in NTS of retrofitting individual apartments in an older style block. I would love a video of an example of retrofitting an older style, inner suburban whole block of boutique apartments - rather just fitting out one individual apartments. For example, how do you make this whole of block type of retrofitting development economically viable? What are the challenges? And are there some older style apartment blocks that are more suitable to this type of retrofitting?

I'm so happy to have discover your chanel ! it gives me so much hope for or society and inspires me so much. I want to studies architecture and urbanism because it is such an incredible way to be socaly and ecologically engaged. It shaps or way to interact and consume and I find it so interesting. i will never thank you enough.

Here in East-Central Europe we've always been practicing micro-living with a small footprint, because we've been broke for centuries lol

Love the new video format.

Baristas are a 'first line service'???? Oh please!!!!

Hi NTS, i appreciate the longer more discourse driven videos you have right now but i dont know if it's just me but I miss the shorter small house videos you originally have. I hope you do both. :)

This video should be seen by municipal leadership in all urban settings.

Jakarta's government and developers should see this series! the city has too many good amount of old buildings (low-rise commercial blocks or what in Indonesian term is "ruko") being neglected, creating unpleasant view, and not to mention: safety risk, because they can collapse anytime. I wish rather than developers keep building new commercial blocks or (not so affordable) house complex that only drowning the city more and less greenery sites, they could rejuvenate/rebuid/revitalize those poor good old buildings into something new, exciting, and sustainable purposes.

Buildings should have more green spaces and community spaces that encourage people to cohabit with neighbors within the building to create a sense of security and community and create a kind of village within the building itself.

Why do you guys always put down officials and developers in your videos? It isn’t necessary.

I would love to live in an appartement but we have 4 kids and we only have one or two bedroom apartments here in our little town in the Netherlands. We now live in a very small home (65m2) with 3 bedrooms. I would love a appartement building made for families with enough bedrooms. A really nice and green outside area for the kids to all play together. And to make it really soundproof so that people are not hearing eachother and the kids.

WoW 🤩 awesome

I think the world should look at how The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany built.

One would hope that more greenery and parklike spaces would be more integrated into these designs. I am still seeing hard-edged structures and lack of vegetation or even communal gardening...

Love this content. Would love if a link to this video would be send to all administrators of the for profit developers in case some will have the curiosity to watch it and actually start reconsider their approach, out of the willingness to do good and learn from others. They could then hire all the amazing creatives you have interviewed to develop them.

It would be interesting to see more about cheep housing instead of this high price living.

With the advent of people working from home via technology, we need to re-think this move toward more dense housing. Suburbs exist because people don’t like living in crowded areas. The future economy will mean people live and work closer to their dwellings and won’t need to commute to big city centers.

Excellent episode!

Is it possible to get more Information of the first Projekt that was shown? The japanese Stile Apartment.. i love it!

9:21 _doctors, nurses, ... baristas_

I’m way too excited about this

Luv thiss

I would love someone to talk about how this affects Korea. Traffic is awful and you basically can't live without a car. and large apartment buildings are everywhere.

Can the developers Nightingale and Hip V Hype set up shop in Auckland, NZ as well 😭😂

Community contributers, doctors, nurses, barista's 🤣. Got to get your soy latte right.

Eventually I want to build 3/4 small footprint homes on my block. Solar passive as well as installing full solar, reverse brick veneer for the best insulation for Perth and taking advantage of our great SW afternoon breeze. I’ve had 15 years to think about it and it’ll be another 5 before zoning changes. 🤞

The same issues exist in Auckland City, New Zealand, where I live. I have seen in the last twenty years, but especially the last few years, housing developers building apartment buildings, some of which are truly awful to look at, and lack decent parking, and space internally. In the area where I live, I have noticed a dramatic difference in the types of housing, eight apartment building projects, two of which are complete, but more is coming! I live in a older house, surrounded, quite closely by six houses. I can just cope with that, but the others.......?

Love this video format. Could you upload it in 4K in the future? That would be perfect!

Development outside of the city must be overhauled as well. I live 2 hours north of Melbourne and just recently a bush block near us sold after being on the market for only a couple of months. A couple of weeks later a huge red sign has appeared selling 'parcels' of land as if it's some kind of coveted tree-change. There has been absolutely no change to the block - no new fencing, no infrastructure, nothing - other than a new For Sale sign. Buy it, sub-divide it, flip it.

interested to see who the intended market is for this type of housing vs the people that can actually afford to live in it

Here in Vienna, developers are also buying and destroying single family homes and building 3 houses on that same plot of land. Unfortunately the new houses end up in the luxury category and each are sold at the same price if not higher than the original house, only with 1/3 of the land and half the space. Private developers have no interest in the people.

Absolutely love this channel! I would love to create these sustainable spaces when I'm older and I was wondering did most of the architects in these videos study civil engineer architect, architecture or interior architecture? I'm graduating high school this year, but a teacher made me question this field of study by saying that few architecture graduates actually design homes and that these designers are mostly engineer architects (not amazing at math so that isn't really an option). Maybe it also depends on what country you live in. I live in belgium :)

I've subscribed to notifications for sale of apartments in many suburbs and in a price range that would cover most studio/1 bed. I would say that a majority that come up are on the ground floor; most buildings are 6+ stories so the overrepresentation seems extreme; I wonder whether sewage coming out of toilets on the ground floor due to blockages in pipes further on is a significant factor. I was in a large newish block a while back and in every lift were laminated A4 signs warning against flushing excess stuff (my paraphrase).

This is exactly what is wrong with this world. Unbelievably good architecture with nothing but respect for the community is judged by those who know nothing about what is good architecture. Its like turning down tiger woods to play on your local high school golf team. Isn't it time that professionals decide what is built instead of politicians?

9:23 - "baristas" are core of a community? Maybe dustmen, plumbers, builders? Seem much more important

absolutely hit every cord. fucking wonderful video

Where’s the rust couch setting from please ! 😊😜

Love this! Any suggestions for Perth based groups doing similar things?

Baristas are an essential service provider ? Maybe if you are a hipster architect on a $5k pushy bicycle ... 🚲

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