Tiny Beach House on Rails
Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand – Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects Year Built: 2011 Photography: Jackie Meiring Update: Best Exterior Innovation at the 2012 NZ Timber Design Awards. This beach front property is in a coastal erosion zone. Building approval is withheld unless the home is relocatable. The owners, architects and builders of this home took […]
Garage Transformation
Washington, United States – Michelle de la Vega Built area: 23 m2 (250 sq. ft.) Photography: Ira Lippke Michelle de la Vega is a visual artist, designer, welder. Here is her conversion of an old, disused garage into a 23 m2 (250 sq ft) mini-home. The roof was raised 1.2 metres (4ft) to accommodate a lofty sleeping area and a […]
A French Resurrection
London, England – Blee Halligan Architects Photography: Sarah Blee In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper. The property in southwestern France was idyllic, but its old mill, built in 1822, and three flanking outbuildings had fallen into terrible disrepair. “We really wanted to capture the ruinous quality of this old building […]
Love House – a story in two parts
Yokohama Kanagawa Japan – Takeshi Hosaka Architects Built: 2005 Site Area: 38m2 Few of us have ever lived in 38 m2 (410 sq. ft) let alone on a 38 m2 site! We have previously featured the work of this architect and, when suggesting a feature on another home, Megumi, the practice […]
Joshua Tree – Hangar Design Group
Anywhere – Hangar Design Group We’re used to the concept of ‘mobile homes’ and pre-fabrication. In fact, the two are synonymous. The Joshua Tree is a new take on the concept, delivering a very high quality product that is claimed to be genuinely capable of mobility. Manufactured by Agora Prefab, the home is built with overlapping zinc titanium tiles […]
The organic Hus-1
West coast Sweden – Torsten Ottesjö Built area: 25m2 (270 sq. ft.) This tiny home designed and built by Ottesjö Torsten, may be the most organic home we’ve featured so far. In fact, I can’t look at it without thinking of the sand-worms from the movie Dune. But don’t let that get in the way of […]
Thailand Dome House – Steve Areen
A mango farm somewhere in North-East Thailand – Steve Areen… Built area: 500 sq. ft. (46 m2) + hammock ;) Steve Areen went from flight steward to owner-builder of this unique home. He completed the main structural work to habitable standard in just six weeks with one full time helper and one casual hand […]
Micro House
World’s Smallest Mobile Home
Beijing China – Dai Haifei As we’ve said before, it’s always interesting to see the homes that architects build for themselves. In this instance, it was an architecture student who faced a common problem with a unique solution… An egg-shaped home on wheels – elegant, simple, and most certainly green! This egg-shaped home on wheels […]
Tiny Home Snapshots
In our search for material for ‘tiny home’ albums, we often come across interesting ideas and images but not enough of them to make an album. Sometimes we can find enough images but there is no story. Rather than pass these homes by, we’ve collated them here as inspiration. Don’t miss the video links beneath […]