A millennial architect and his fiancée turned a triangular car-repair shop into a tiny dream home — take a look

Thu, 06/13/2024 - 15:05

Architect Richard Brown inside his home (right) and a full view of the triangular house from above (left). — Architect Richard Brown has been living in a 430-square-foot triangular home for nearly two years.
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Richard Brown converted a tiny, triangular car-repair shop into a home for himself and his fiancée.
The building is 430 square feet, with pointy edges and sharp corners that posed design challenges.
But Brown said it's the perfect size and is now set up to be their dream work-from-home space.

Academics spend thousands of pages theorizing why most homes are rectangular. Is it that the tools early humans used were bad at carving out curves? Is it influenced by our understanding of math, space, and gravity?