Industrial design and architecture collide in Konstantin Grcic’s 100-square-foot prefab hut for Muji. Here, he walks us through his process.
Konstantin Grcic is no architect. Renowned for colorful, exquisitely crafted furniture, the Munich-based industrial designer has never built anything bigger than a trade show pavilion. So when the Japanese retail giant Muji tapped Grcic to develop a prefabricated hut, he figured he’d do what he does best. “My approach was that of a designer designing a building, not a designer trying to be an architect,” Grcic says in a phone interview. “The concept for Muji is very much creating a building as a product, something that could be reproduced and produced in a serial way.”
