Sloft - Issue 9

Space is the place

According to the UN, there should be close to 9.6 billion people on Earth by 2050, and most of them concentrated in cities. This is happening in parallel to our planet’s habitable surface dwindling under the pressure of rising sea levels and desertification. The notion of “sharing space” is thus taking on an increasingly weighty, almost critical tenor. Here at Sloft, we have been contributing to the building of this idea, in our own way, for a few years now. By promoting more compact design for housing, we’ve been able to imagine beautifully stimulating and originally sensible solutions to help urban dwellers envision a refuge in our ever-expanding megacities.

In this ninth bilingual edition:

• 8 Exclusive Home Tours:

In Charenton, in Paris, in Marseille or Sydney, our new selection reveals homes that feel deeply attuned — almost like extensions of their inhabitants’ bodies — helping them situate themselves physically within their surroundings and giving them the sense of being truly in place. This is the miracle of “lived-in” dwellings, as philosopher Céline Bonicco-Donato calls them, as opposed to “interchangeable” homes for perpetual “visitors,” who may, in doing so, end up monopolizing the space (and resources) of others.