The photos of the interior all have the same feeling as add pictures of undersized hotel rooms.

I think that is a really nice design. I like small and tiny houses. I think this maximises the space without having to maximise the size of the house.

I like it but in the midwest we like our basements for storage, laundry, heating, water heater, and for tornado protection. Tornado protection cannot be over looked. I'm sure a basement would not be a problem with this design. The only other problem is that it looks like a Morton building.

Roughly 24 x 24 sq. ft. patch of land, considering two stories, but more like a 1 &1/2 and it gives you 1200 sq. feet of building area including the garage which will eat up say 200 sq. ft. This now leaves you with roughly 1000sq ft. of living space.
The columns it sits on use only 20 sq. ft. leaving the land under This frees at least some of the land beneath the house for potential use, which is a significant gain when working with a site half the size of the usual minimum for an LA home.
What exactly do you want to grow under there…magic mushrooms…
The whole problem with the L.A. and other affluent egotistical societies that have become accustomed to the BIGGER is BETTER…
Waste not want not, my humble plot of land has a building area of 24 x 32= 768sq. ft. on the ground floor. The building is considered a 1 ½ story, with a finished 624sq. ft. basement. The upper floor is 488 sq. ft.
Total living space 1952 sq. ft. it has 5 bedrooms, & 2 full bathrooms which is a minimum for the now 6 adults living in this place for 25 years now.
Yes it’s small, but the family that grows up together in these tight quarters and still plays together, is quite something when compared to sprawling typical homes.

1200 square feet is not a small house. I live comfortably in a small house. It is about 600 square feet. And not nearly as featureless and sterile as this metal box.

My wife and I and dog live in 1200 sq.ft. and don't use all the space. Previously, we lived in 800 sq.ft. and it worked out fine.

Love the look but it's an acoustic disaster. I love music too much for all the hard surfaces;) It would be hard to carry on a conversation in there. Beautiful though.

I like the high ceilings and layout. LA houses must be insanely big though if they thing 1200 sgft is small. My 2 bedroom ranch was 1200 sqft. and I had more room than I needed.

Seems strange to use such short support columns - why not make it a bit higher off the ground? There are many examples of this in 'flood plain' architecture around the world. Then most new(ish) small cars could park under the house and free up the present garage area into more living or bedroom space. As for acoustics, hang a few decorative carpet squares (tapestries) to avoid the echo effect (and insulate as well), like they used to do in stone castles/buildings way back then.

Well, it is not exactly small, though well thought features all over the place might make it look a bit bigger than it actually is. It would sure be enough for me, and the sterile look will go away after a short period of me living in it. Put some solar cells on top so I cloud charge my car for free while in that garage, and I'd be just fine.