Measuring just 40-square-metres in size, this petite holiday home in the Coromandel packs a powerful design punch
This tiny cabin in the Coromandel is an incredible answer to a bach
Small home: Hut on Sleds, Coromandel Peninsula
Architect: Ken Crosson, Crosson Architects
Floor area: 40m2
Number of occupants: Five or more during holidays
Photography: Jackie Meiring
Yes, we hear you: it’s easier to make holiday homes small because they don’t have to accommodate the complexity of our regular working lives. But the Hut on Sleds by Ken Crosson (above) – a finalist in our Home of the Year 2012 – takes compact living to such an extreme it qualifies as a special case. It has two bedrooms and is only 40 square metres in size, yet it easily accommodates a family of five on holidays. “For the clients it was all about examining what was the real essence of a bach versus a beach house,” Crosson says. “They wanted something small and experimental. It’s tiny, so the challenge was making it as bachy as possible and not wasting any space in doing that.”
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The beach house takes the form of a vertical stack, with a petite living, dining and kitchen area on the ground floor facing the beach, and a bathroom and bunkroom tucked in behind. Designed on sleds, it can be moved around onsite or elsewhere if necessary once it’s decoupled from power and water supplies. A ladder accesses the main bedroom, which occupies a mezzanine above the living room, then there’s another climb to the roof deck. An enormous double shutter locks up the hut when the owners aren’t there, and raises to form a northeast awning when they’re in. Every available space is given to storage – even the walls double as floor-to-ceiling shelves that Crosson hopes will accumulate the personal histories of the owners.
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