The "Tiny House" movement, literally "small houses", has its roots in the "insane idea" that a simple life is preferable and possible, if lived in small houses.
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The movement "Tiny House”, literally "small houses", has its roots in the "insane idea" that a simple life is preferable and possible, if lived in small houses.
In fact, even if the family units are shrinking, the size of the houses is in contrast, especially in countries like the United States: the average American house, in fact, turns out to be oversized and extremely large, but here too we don't mess around.
The new idea is instead that of offer a greener and cheaper alternative, in short, a bit like Columbus's egg. Lately, in fact, interest in “Tiny Houses” has definitely grown: “it seems a perfect convergence between a bad real estate market, a bad economy and greater environmental awareness” says Jay Shafer.
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In fact, the key to living in a small house, for Jay himself, is an elegant design, an attention to detail but above all the fact that people can thus discover a true sense of freedom in living with less never tried before.
Sarah Susanka instead, in 1997, he launched his shocking idea of "Small House” through the publication of his "The Not So Big House": In fact, small houses for her can have everything a family needs with nothing to envy to the huge under-exploited houses we are used to, they are less expensive, less energy-intensive, more essential and absolutely more useful to those who live there, as well as enormously more sustainable.
Here you can read an excerpt from his book in pdf
The designer Marianne Cusato, in 2005 he developed the “Katrina” Cottages, particularly small (about 28 m2) but excellent as a valid alternative to the containers available at the time.
We could thus continue, because around the world the idea that "Less is more" it is getting stronger, especially in recent years of economic and social change.
There are many examples scattered all over the world such as in Spain, where architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores presented one from 28 m2 called "House in a suitcase"
But still the "Casa Micro Compact”: It is a cube of just over 7 square meters developed by the British architect Richard Horton in collaboration with the University of Munich, designed for one or two people and which has useful functional spaces.
The project is intended as a modern "machine to live in", providing spaces to sleep, work, eat, cook and carry out your own personal hygiene.
In fact, it is now clear that large houses are more expensive in terms of construction, taxes, heating, maintenance and therefore the "Tiny Houses" as well as costing less, they implement the desire for a simple, true, economic life and last but not least, more sustainable.
Small houses can emphasize, in fact, the real functionalities that lead inside them and in a double way: making us save space and energy and also optimizing those spaces never evaluated before, such as vertical ones for example!
This "We the Tiny House People"Is the first documentary, of 2012, by Kirsten Dirksen previewed on youtube, where the viewer is accompanied to the discovery of lives and Tiny houses, around the world (California, New York, Hawaii, France, Spain) ... absolutely impregnable, poetic and definitely useful to rethink our real needs as well as our choices.
Kia - Carmela Giambrone
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