Tiny House Living

Five architecture students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco designed and built this small space. It’s a two level structure that was designed to provide office space and additional living space for their client. It’s not a tiny house, but it’s interesting to see what a team of students came up with.

Student Project

This story is a few years old but one of my readers mentioned it to me this past week so I thought I’d share it with you too. Jim Reid designed and built this tiny 10′ by 10′ house as a proof of concept for homeless housing. I’m not sure what ever happened to the project, but it was sure a good idea.

Jim Reid’s Tiny San Francisco Home

Photo credit Frédéric Neema.

This is a new shipping container sized house that can be delivered and set-up quickly. It’s the creation of Green Horizon a start-up in California. While these homes are intended to be a LEED certified alternatives to FEMA trailers they look like very comfortable modern tiny houses to me. An example will be in display at Fort Mason in San Francisco October 1 – 3 2009.

On-Demand Housing

Over the past several weeks we’ve watched Jay and his crew build a Tumbleweed Fencl. Now Jay is headed to New York, tiny house in tow. he’ll make 14 scheduled stops along the way and hold tiny house design and building workshops in Boulder, Chicago, and New York. Kent at Tiny House Blog will be following his progress and posting regular updates. Here’s the first post and photos as Jay hits the road.

If you’d like to follow the construction of a Tumbleweed Tiny House online now’s the time to begin watching Jeff and Arlene. They live in an apartment in San Francisco and have rented a warehouse space to build their tiny house. Kent over at Tiny House Blog has the complete story. Read more about the Mini Mobile Cottage