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The Ultimate Space-Saving Apartment, and Let's Give Credit Where Credit is Due

By Rain Noe - May 10, 2011

Christian Schallert's 250 sq feet apartment designed by Barbara Appolloni

This video is making the blog rounds as the "Christian House," named for owner Christian Schallert, but the name that should be noted here is Barbara Appolloni. She's the architect who turned a space not much bigger than an American jail cell—roughly 250 square feet—into a livable apartment in Barcelona:

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Voltaire Romero

7 years ago

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Podamos traer la naturaleza a nuestro espacio habitable, y tener un ambiente agradable para nuestros sentidos.

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Voltaire Romero

7 years ago

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FFantastico el departamento, cada generación los espacios habitables se vuelven mas pequeños, son ideas exelentes, tenemos que desarrollar aún más, para que el ser humano con el aprovechamiento de la tecnologia

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Nicolas Boullosa

11 years ago

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The reason we don't show Barbara in that particular video is her English. See this video (mainly the same), but in Spanish: "Un mini-apartamento que se transforma en infinitos espacios" http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/un-mini-apartamento-que-se-transforma-en-infinitos-espacios/

Dear friends, you are quite uninformed-opinionated. At least, you could ask us and we'd have pointed out that other video featuring Barbara Appolloni.

And just to be clear: this was a two people work.
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Thunderbuster

11 years ago

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An unfortunate but simple rule : If you want to get recognized for something be the person that pays for it.
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Nonnu

11 years ago

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Well... theres another house like this in Porto, Portugal, but it is much more hightech :)
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mirapapi

11 years ago

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This is always the case. I've seen countless articles about buildings that mention the owners and developers, but always seem to leave out the design team. I guess thats why we need our trade magazine and design websites.
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Rain Noe

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.