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Compact Homes That Live Big

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Rand Soellner Architect is receiving as many requests for smaller high-quality homes that live big as for larger residences.  Many people want to downsize, or simply pay less during challenging economic times.  Soellner has responded with a series of higher-quality compact houses that have spacious organizations that defy the imagination as to how small or large they are physically.

This is a perceptual art, refined by Soellner over decades; since his days working on his Master’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida.  He also has a minor in Environmental Psychology, in which he researched people’s reactions to space.  Soellner also designed projects for one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s main apprentices, Nils Schweizer, FAIA.  Wright was a master of overlapping spaces in residential design.  Soellner learned this while studying the buildings at the Florida Southern campus and designing for one of Wright’s main proteges. (more…)