Tiny House Living

Over the weekend I’ll be posting several design iterations to my entry to the Who’s Next design competition hosted by Free Green. My design is essentially a cluster of tiny houses.

Who’s Next Competition

The Open Office, designed by Kenny, won the 2009 shed design competition at Secrets of Shed Building. One of the key features of this garden office is a set of sliding wood panels mounted to a rail system on the exterior of the building. They serve to block sunlight as well as provide privacy when needed. Congratulations Kenny!

Winner of 2009 Shed Design Competition

Visit Tiny House Design and enter to win a free copy of my ebook, Tiny Prefab. I’ll be picking a winner this coming Sunday at midnight (PST). All you need to do to enter is post a comment on that announcement post and describe the type of tiny (or small) house you’d like to build someday. You should read some of the comments there now… great ideas.

Enter & Win – Free Drawing for Tiny Prefab ebook

Vote for your favorite shed at the Shed Design Competition 2009 hosted by Secrets of Shed Building. There are 10 finalists and all of them are really great. I really wish I had made the time to enter the competition myself.

Vote For Your Favorite Shed

This design competition ends October 31st… and I thought I had missed the entry deadline. It looks like the competition is steep so I better pull some of my most creative ideas out if I’m going to have a chance at winning. You can enter too… the more the merrier. Read more at Shedworking.

Shed Design Competition

Secrets of Shed Building is having a garden shed/office/studio design competition. The entry deadline is midnight GMT on October 31, 2009. The winner takes home an Apple iPod nano. For those of you not entering it should still be interesting to see the designs that come out from the tiny house and shedworking community.

Secrets of Shed Building

Reburbia, the design challenge sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat is underway. The top 20 entries are now on display and public voting has begun. Take a look and be sure to vote for your favorite design solutions for reshaping suburbia. ReBurbia

illustration credit to Urban Nature, F&S Design Studio, Silverlion Design

This coming Friday (July 31st, 2009) is the deadline for design entries to ReBurbia, a design competition sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat. Here’s a little blurb from their website:

Calling all future-forward architects, urban designers, renegade planners and imaginative engineers: Show us how you would re-invent the suburbs! What would a McMansion become if it weren’t a single-family dwelling? How could a vacant big box store be retrofitted for agriculture? What sort of design solutions can you come up with to facilitate car-free mobility, ‘burb-grown food, and local, renewable energy generation?

This should be another very interesting project to watch. Learn more at the ReBurbia website.

This should be exciting to watch unfold. It’s a design competition focused on visualizing the ideal sustainable village. Here’s a quote from their website:

This is a contest for the visions of an ideal sustainable village: a place where you  would want to live, study, work and experience the challenges and rewards of an  ecologically durable lifestyle. In other words: to define the future of living.

The entry deadline is 15th August 2009 at 12.00 GMT. Learn more on the CLEAR Village Foundation website.

Alex over at Shedworking needs a new shed office. He moved recently and had to leave his writing shed behind. He’s now planning his new shed and has invited people to contribute designs.  Continue Reading…

I’ve also posted 10 simple ideas and a Google SketchUp file over at Tiny House Design in case you’d like to try your hand and drawing in 3D. Get the 10 Sheds SketchUp file…