20K HOUSE

1. 20K House
What is the $20K House? Contact
Neufert? That’s a Weird Word!
Neufert is a European book that graphically demonstrates architectural dimensions. For the non-
Europeans in the audience, here in America you might have seen Architectural Graphic
Standards before. Some people call these books the architectural bibles. We are not here to push the
religion of Neufertism but we would like to talk about how great of a tool it can be in the design
process. Deep within the pages of Neufert and Architectural Graphic Standards lies the most important of
architectural dimensions like:
Kitchens:
Bathrooms:

2. Bedrooms:

3. Graveyards:

4. These books begin to inform us what are appropriate distances and acceptable minimums. As you can see
in the bedroom image, Neufert tells us that there should be 75 cm between the bed and the surrounding
walls, as well as 1 meter between the end of the bed and the closet. We are currently taking these
dimensional minimums and applying them against MacArthur’s house and David’s house. We will show
the process of how we used this tool to help us understand how tight these houses are in comparison to
Neufert and Architectural Graphic Standards.
1. We take the original floor plan from David’s house:

5. 2. We separate the spaces in the house into porch, kitchen, living, dining, bathroom, bedroom and
storage:
3. We concentrate on one room: (this example we show how to make the bathroom up to the Neufert and
Architectural Graphic Standards minimums.)
4. We Neufert-ize/ Architectural Graphic Standard-ize the bathroom:

6. 5. We combine the minimized spaces into one house and compare them to the original plans: