Now here’s an idea that had a lot of promise. I wonder why it never took off? I ran across this video while researching ways of building ultralight tiny houses.
Trailer Concept
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
University of Maryland students head to Haiti
Some students from the University of Maryland will be spending a week in Haiti demonstrating how to build these sturdy earthbag shelters.
Weekly Online Tiny House Show
Ryan Mitchell, at The Tiny Life, has started hosting a weekly online show. The most recent show’s topic was on Design Tools for Small Spaces. Past shows are recorded and also available online. I really like this innovate approach to bringing tiny house content online and look forward to seeing Ryan’s show grow.
Hybrid Tiny Home
While this tiny house looks like a portable structure it is in fact built much more like a normal stick-built home. I thought the unusual shape and clever design made it a worthy design concept to share. It was created by John Paananen.
Craig’s Tiny House Blog
A great new tiny house blog with some great tiny house designs from Craig. Pictured here is a teardrop inspired trailer design.
Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand
The folks at the Earthbag Building Blog are hosting a workshop in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand from April 19-25, 2010. If a bit of world travel and earthbag house training sounds interesting to you definitely learn more about this workshop. Pictured here is one of their recently completed projects in Mexico.
Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand
Four Room House in Belgium
I don’t normally cover urban tiny houses but this one takes a very unusual approach to making the most of a tight space. The house has four rooms, one on each level. Level one is a workspace. Level two is a kitchen/dining room. Level three is a living room and on top is a bedroom and bath.
Not a House… Yet
This is a bit off-topic because this shipping container is a prototype for a collapsable shipping container that folds up for it’s return trip. On the secondary market they would provide an interesting shipping container to build a house from.
Tiny House Cluster – Who’s Next Competition Entry
My entry to the Free Green Who’s Next Competition is probably the only one that includes tiny houses. It’s a cluster for 4 small houses clustered around a courtyard. The public voting ends on March 17th. If you like it, please give me a vote. The winning concept will be turned into a set of plans available at FreeGreen.com.
Taliesin Shelters
These amazing little buildings were created by students of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and if you’re ever in the area of Taliesin West you can take the Desert Shelter Tour and get a close-up look. I first saw this on Shedworking.