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The ENVI Micro Urban Village features the smallest freehold lots in Australia with tiny homes built on land ranging from 38sqm, in Southport.

The brainchild of architect Amy Degenhart, FRAIA, of degenhart SHEDD, and planner Nicole Bennetts, PIA, the homes have been developed on a site totalling 673sqm, on the corner of Meron and Lenneberg streets, which formerly housed a single home.

The smallest of those homes, the Pico Pod – so named as the next atomic measurement below the Nano (10¹²) – is  a two storey, no-car “detached” dwelling constructed on a freehold lot of just 38m^2. Amy Degenhart LFRAIA, the architect and Director of the development company, bubbl UP. hosted a presentation on urban infill tiny-lot subdivisions, followed by a brief footpath tour of the Envi Micro Urban Village, as part of the GCOH 2024 program.

Says Degenhart, “There is a strong, and growing, appetite for this type of urban living, but there are few projects in Australia that deliver it and it is particularly rare on the Gold Coast. We want to showcase the fact that projects which are architecturally curated can offer more for less – you just need the right vision, community engagement, collaboration, clever design and passion to make it happen.”