The Muji Hut project includes three prototype designs for tiny prefab country homes.

High profile industrial designers created them. This one is by Naoto Fukasawa, Muji’s head of design.

This one, by Jasper Morrison, is called the hut of cork.

The houses provide you with the basics, and little more.

Morrison’s cork hut, the largest of the three, has a spacious living area, a bathroom, and a kitchen with a stove.

In his statement, he said, “whenever I think about going to the country for the weekend, I start imagining a small house with everything needed for a short stay, a place to cook, a place to eat, a place to wash, and a place to sleep.”

Konstantin Grcic's two-story mini-cabin is small enough, he says, "to stay within the norm of constructions which need no building permission in Japan (3 x 3.3 x 4.5m)."

The walls include an insulating foam core.

Because it's open and simply designed, Grcic says, it makes the small space easily configurable to individual needs.