Transforming furniture and living pod systems help make the most of a small space, but when entire rooms shape-shift in unexpected ways, the results can be astonishing. These compact apartment designs feature walls that slide and unfold, beds that descend from the ceiling, and interiors that can literally be turned upside down to change the function of built-in elements.
1. Yo! Home by Simon Woodroffe
An 80-square-meter space about the size of a one-bedroom apartment is transformed into a much larger-feeling home with 12 moving parts, including a bed platform that comes down from the ceiling just above the couches in the living room.
By pulling something down, raising something from the floor or pressing a button to produce some other unexpected action, the small space expands to include a second bedroom, a full-sized kitchen, an office, a cinema, a dining room, a wine cellar and more.
2. Fluid Shape-Shifting Berlin Apartments
Two apartments in Berlin feature exceptionally fluid layouts thanks to pivoting and sliding walls. Frankfurt architecture firm reinhartjung created all-white interiors that help the various elements seamlessly transform to define new spaces in various shapes.
3. LifeEdited Apartment Packed with Transforming Elements
The result of a design competition by Treehugger founder Grant Hill, who actually lives in the winning proposal, the Life Edited apartment is an experiment in compact living that aims to help you “design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.”
Virtually everything in this apartment slides, unfolds or transforms in some way to pack as much as possible into a tiny New York apartment. Within this cube, 8 functional spaces can be created, even accommodating large dinner parties.
4. Pop-Up Interactive Apartment
The Pop-Up Interactive Apartment features a series of polypropylene panels that slide, fold and transform in other ways to change the space for different functions.
These flexible dividers enable the 538-square-foot space to be partitioned for dining, sleeping, working and playing.
5. 24 Rooms in One Apartment
How do you turn a 350-square-foot studio into a fully functional apartment with the luxuries of a larger space? A Hong Kong designer has experimented with the limits of small space living by squeezing 24 rooms into one tiny cube.
A system of sliding walls reveal seemingly endless utilities.
6. Roll It Compact Housing Turns to Create New Spaces
This might just be the most unconventional way of transforming your surroundings in a small living space: ‘Roll It,’ a cylinder-shaped home that offers different functions when you change its orientation.
Various platforms become beds, seats or tables depending on how the the wheel-like core of the house is turned.
7. Shape-Shifting Tokyo Apartment by Yuko Shibata
A client who works from home wanted his tiny Tokyo apartment to completely change when the day’s work tasks are over. Yuko Shibata architects created sliding and swinging doors and walls as well as a variety of built-ins. Possibly the most novel approach is a wall mounted to a ceiling track that slides over a long table to divide it for work, or reveal the entire table for dining.
8. Amazing Adaptable Structures by Olson Kundig
Transforming on a larger scale, Olson Kundig’s adaptable structures feature massive garage-like doors that open entire walls or even the ceiling to the outdoors.
Check them out in the above stop-motion video.
9. Converted Church with Transforming Details
Modern meets traditional style in a church converted to an apartment, with beautiful historic details like arched windows and vaulted ceilings preserved while adaptable built-ins fit in more function than you’d expect. Elements that slide and unfold make it possible to hide clutter and keep everything compact, leaving the interiors bright and open.
10. Sculptural Transforming Wall
A faceted, sculptural wooden wall features a rotating block with a TV panel so the home’s occupants can watch television from whichever part of this small apartment they’re sitting in. The wall also hides the entire kitchen.
11. Tiny Transforming Apartment in Barcelona
Everything in this 258-square-foot apartment (which used to be the water tank for the building) can be hidden away behind folding panels.
The owner converted what used to be a bare-bones space into a comfortable home with a wooden wall concealing storage, a small kitchen and more.
12. Barcode Room Space-Saving Apartment
The Barcode Room by Studio_o1 has twelve different ‘bars’ or walls that can be moved into various configurations.
Living, sleeping and dining/cooking functions are held within these sliding wooden structures, which can be moved across the room to create a variety of spaces.
13. Space-Saving Partitions
A modular divider system that can fit within virtually any space opens up in all kinds of ways for maximum flexibility.
The modules, which include fold-out tables, beds and couches, can be packed away or closed when they’re not needed.
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