News Summary

• South Korean designer Jung Hyun Kim designed Babel for people who live in small rooms but refuse to shrink their idea of what home should feel like.
• Each function gets its own segment, stacked like a totem instead of scattered like clutter.
• Babel won’t fit every home, and a four function tower is a commitment, not an impulse buy.
• But as a piece of thinking about how to live well in less square footage, it’s one of the more clear headed ideas I’ve seen come out of a design program in a while.