Designing for Density
Mar 23, 2020
4 minutes
Text Sarah Mineko Ichioka
The designers featured in this issue are all highly skilled in creating beautiful smaller spaces, for economy and efficiency at the scale of a single unit. Viewed from a wider angle, how might this small-space savvy add up to meet a grander design challenge: the question of how to accommodate millions of people, each with their own needs and expectations, within a finite amount of space?
The global population is due to reach eight billion people around 2025, and although growth has slowed in recent decades, upward trends in urbanisation and international migration continue. Moreover, only 20 per
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