Sam Jacob, MINI, and Speed Reading London
When urban habitat initiative MINI Living collaborated with architect Sam Jacob to create the “Urban Cabin” for this year?s London Design Festival, they wanted to exhibit what living with a small footprint would look like.
In an expensive metropolis like London, finding an affordable place to live often means accepting life in a small space. Still, there are many creative ways in which urbanites have used, and continue to use, the limited space that they have. The Urban Cabin gives us another idea of how that can be done, with an architecture that relates to the history of London itself.
?With the concept we wanted to visualize London?s cultural differences and traditions, but also modern habits that are very typical for the city,? explains Corinna Natter, an experience designer at MINI LIVING, on the company?s website. At its core, the Urban Cabin is a narrow box attached to a quaint library. What Sam Jacob and MINI have given us is essentially London’s version of Mies van der Rohe?s “Barcelona Pavilion,” a project that the great German architect designed for the 1929 International Exposition. Built with materials and an open plan rich in meaning, the Urban Cabin could be unofficially referred to as “London Pavilion.” The exterior of the cabin consists mostly of a reflective material. The façade, like London itself, mirrors the globe in terms of its diverse population and multivariate cultural history.
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