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This multipurpose tiny office was digitally fabricated for self assembly from a flat pack design

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‘A Room In The Garden’ is a digitally fabricated tiny home office that can be self-assembled from a flatpack design.

Oh, to spend the day in the garden. While we’ve all gotten used to working from home and our little routines to get us through the workday, many of us are growing restless from being in the same spot and building at all hours of the day. While home reno projects do a lot to make our home offices feel fresh and comfortable, it’s normal to want to ditch our routines and get outside for the day. Studio Ben Allen designed ‘A Room In The Garden’ for those sorts of moments.

Designer: Studio Ben Allen

‘A Room In The Garden’ is “part garden folly, part ‘other space,’” as the architects for Studio Ben Allen describe it. Inspired by the playfulness of 18th-century folly architecture, known in Scotland as the Dunmore Pineapple, ‘A Room In The Garden’ keeps a whimsical outer display and a more subdued interior space.

Outside, the patterned green cladding is meant to camouflage the structure in plain sight, merging together an air of whimsical surrealism with practicality. Inside, exposed timber framing gives the structure a mood of seriousness, ideal for working.

As a result of working from home, a lot of us are searching for quiet, cozy corners of the world to call ours for the workday. Designed for the modern family, ‘A Room In The Garden’ provides a working sanctuary for parents in urban areas to get away from the hustle and bustle of city streets and their children. The floor-to-ceiling window even offers a clever vista point for parents to supervise their children’s playtime while still having their own quiet space.

Considering the project’s design and construction process, Studio Ben Allen’s architects put themselves back in the driver’s seat thanks to modern technologies like digital fabrication and CNC milling. Using digital fabrication in the form of 2D flatbed CNC cutting technology, the architects ensured that the building process was affordable and readily accessible to most city residents.

Optimizing the assembly process, digital fabrication allowed for all elements of the structure to be “cut and notched to interlock,” Studio Ben Allen suggests, “This has the advantage that it maximizes the structural performance of the timber and avoids the need for measuring on-site.”

As the architects go on to describe, each element is numbered and slots into the next, keeping the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced during the process to a minimum. With the combination of clean assembly, technically advanced digital fabrication and minimal, recyclable building materials, Studio Ben Allen constructed a tiny remote sanctuary that embraces sensible craft and tasteful aesthetics.

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This geometric glass cabin’s layout was defined by the fjords and rock formations that surround it

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The Efjord Cabin is a triple-glazed glass cabin that one newlywed couple calls home on the Hallvardøy Island in northern Norway.

When you’d rather spend your honeymoon in your own home than in a luxe hotel somewhere on the beach, you know you did something right. When Frode Danielsen and Tone Beathe Øvrevoll went on a holiday to Hallvardøy Island in northern Norway, the couple spent the next two years there designing their dream home where they’d soon spend their honeymoon and the rest of their lives together. The couple looked no further than the internationally renowned architecture studio Snorre Stinessen Architecture for help in building their dream home, The Efjord Cabin.

Designer: Snorre Stinessen Architecture

Before getting their plans off the ground, Danielsen and Beathe Øvrevoll had to work with the Ballangen municipality to develop a new zoning plan for the undeveloped plot of land. Settling on a naturally flat area to give rise to their new home, the couple chose it to keep the site disturbance to a minimum.

In good company, Snorre Stinessen also takes land disturbance seriously as the architects at the studio are “committed to developing projects that are conscious of our surroundings.” Stinessen goes on to say, “The shape of the building is both a dialogue with the close natural formations, but also with the larger landscape. Its functional aspects create privacy and indoor/outdoor connections to different zones around the building.”

The Efjord Cabin is propped up on a concrete slab and stationed between two rock formations which influenced the overall layout of the home. Split between two volumes, the larger of the two comprises two floors harbors the sleeping accommodations and spacious sauna.

Connected next door is a similarly angular structure that houses the home’s open-plan living room. Each volume is topped off with an inclined roof that offers lofty interior ceiling heights and unobstructed views of the snow-covered hills outside.

Defined by its triple-glazed glass facades, the Efjord Cabin finds thick insulation through 14-tons of glass to reduce energy demands. The home is also strategically configured on the site’s sloped hill to passively collect the available solar energy.

Stinessen also took to locally sourced timber to clad the exterior and interior of the Efjord Cabin. On the outside, core pine treated with iron sulfate provides the home’s exterior with a glossy sheen. Inside, birch veneer gives the home a warm, Scandinavian appeal.

Birch veneer frame the glass windows of the Efjord Cabin to balance the wild views with Scandinavian refinement.

The angular, geometric look follows through from the outside to the inside, with clean, neutral lines defining the inteiror.

Gray carpeting and tile flooring help cool down the inside and gives the home a darker appeal.

An in-home sauna can be found in the larger of the two structural volumes. 

Positioned on a sloped hill, the Efjord Cabin takes full advantage of the passive solar conditions.

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Seattle’s floating home community makes room for a new wooden houseboat

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The Water Cabin is a floating home in Seattle’s Portage Bay that maintains the houseboat’s classic nautical personality and the weathered coziness of a cabin.

Wooden planks replace grassy front lawns and piers take the place of sidewalks in Portage Bay, one of Seattle’s larger remaining houseboat enclaves. Stretching from University Bridge to Montlake Park, the floating community is home to plenty of Seattleites searching for an alternative to the traditional family home.

One resident who previously rented a houseboat on Portage Bay enjoyed it so much they wanted to construct their very own water-bound retreat. Looking no further than Olson Kundig, a Seattle-based architecture firm, to get the job done, the Water Cabin is a new residence on Portage Bay that takes on Kundig’s classic cabin architecture.

Designer: Olson Kundig

Defined by a geometric silhouette that exhibits Kundig’s classic style, the Water Cabin’s frame is supported by galvanized steel structures that cradle spacious roof planes and wooden decks. Building the Water Cabin, Olson Kundig and their client hoped to blend interior and exterior spaces throughout the home. Arranged over two levels, the home’s interior spaces are specifically configured to maximize connections to the marine environment.

An open layout allows room for dining, kitchen, and office spaces to occupy the Water Cabin’s bay-level floor. A sliding wooden partition creates another room in the bay level’s office area and a hidden murphy bed reveals its purpose as the home’s guest room.

Throughout the home’s interior spaces, oakwood lines the floors and casework, while cooler silver and black metals help to cool it down. Russian birch plywood ceilings line each room overhead, capturing the natural sunlight of the day and brightening the home.

Just outside, beyond a glass corner and large sliding doors, residents can enjoy an exterior patio built from rich Ipe wood decking. There, large roof overhangs protect the patio’s wood from seasonal elements, allowing for residents to use the outdoor space on a year-round basis. Up top, the Water Cabin hosts the main bedroom where unfettered views of the water can be enjoyed as a cozy lookout. The same roof overhangs that protect the bay-level deck create a deck for the upper level.

Combining the intrinsic nautical elements of a houseboat with the “weathered informality of a cabin,” the Water Cabin’s exterior cladding is lightly stained in knotty western red cedar. Resembling the wild arrangement of trees in a forest, the Water Cabin’s wooden slats are arranged in an irregular pattern. Holding the wooden slats together, galvanized steel and flame-sprayed zinc elements provide support throughout the frame’s perimeter.

Rich, western red cedar panels line the exterior of Olson Kundig’s Water Cabin. 

Floor-to-ceiling glass windows dissolve the barrier between outdoor and indoor spaces. 

Warm oak flooring merges with the exterior Ipe wood decking.  

The Water cabin’s distinct cubic silhouette stands apart from the rest of the bay’s traditional houseboats.

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A tiny cabin inspired by the Japanese concept of forest bathing is designed to immerse guests in nature

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The Woodlands Hideout is a small, nature-inspired cabin in the woods designed as a solo retreat to a larger residence some 200-feet away from the tiny home.

Since winter doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, escaping to a warm cabin in the woods sounds like the move. Disconnecting from the chaos of the modern world doesn’t sound too bad either. From years spent documenting his travels, in addition to remodeling and managing short-term rental homes, architect Rico Castillero took what he learned in these roles to build the first prototype of a small cabin.

Designer: Rico Castillero, Further Society

Inspired by the Japanese concept of forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, Castillero says he’s been “dreaming and scheming” up plans to build what he calls the Woodlands Hideout. Amounting to a small, 190-square-foot cabin, the Woodlands Hideout operates as a solo retreat for guests to sleep under Oregon’s towering pines.

Nestled in a cozy, private neck of the woods, some 200-feet away from Castillero’s main property called Woodlands, the Woodlands Hut is defined by its unique shape and 10’ x 10’ x 20’ custom-built steel frame. In designing the Woodlands Hideout, Castillero looked first to nature to determine the layout and construction scheme.

In fact, the shape of the home was chosen to accommodate the leaves and pine needles that fall from the overhead tree canopies. From there, Castillero had the challenge of configuring the interior to maximize the available living space, especially on the shorter side of the home.

On the shorter end of the home, Castillero found height in passive activities. The toilet, woodstove, and desk each live in their own corner of the home’s shorter end. Taking up a little bit more space, guests will also find the built-in bed on this end of the tiny cabin.

Then, moving to the other end as the roof gradually rises, guests can enjoy a hot shower outfitted in Coosa as well as a fully functional, yet super-compact kitchenette. A woodfire stove functions as a partition between the sleeping space and the cabin’s small dining area. With the layout in place, Castillero clad the interior in oriented strand board (OSB) paneling for a unified, yet organic look.

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Best Tiny Cabins of 2022 for your nature getaway

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If there’s one architectural trend that’s blown up like anything – it’s tiny homes! As much as we absolutely love tiny homes, you know what’s even better than them… Tiny Cabins! Cabins have been a relaxing and quintessential getaway option for everyone for ages galore. They’re the ultimate safe haven in the midst of nature if you simply want to get away from your hectic city lives and unwind. And now they even come in tiny shapes and sizes! Tiny cabins are space-saving, economical, sustainable, and not to mention great vacation spots. If you want a simple and minimal vacation that lets you truly connect with nature, without any of the materialistic luxuries most of us have gotten accustomed to, then a tiny cabin is the answer for you! And, we’ve curated some beautiful and super comfortable tiny cabins that’ll be the perfect travel destination for you. From a tiny cabin with an asymmetrical roofline to a tiny cabin that floats above nature’s sloping hills  – these mesmerizing and surreal tiny cabins are the ultimate retreat you’ve been searching for!

1. Mountain Refuge

Mountain Refuge is a wooden, square, prefabricated cabin with an angular roof. While the geometric cabin is a structural contrast to its natural setting, it still blends in well while showing off its modern design. “The project acts as a contemporary interpretation of old traditional mountain refuges, bringing in architectural character and spatial quality,” say the designers. The wooden cabin comes in different modules, and each has the capability to be flexible and expandable. It is made to be compact and optimizes the space while taking up the least in nature.

2. The Luna

Defined by an asymmetrical roofline, The Luna embraces a geometric, angular profile to complement the natural ruggedness of snow-covered plots of land. Combining rustic energy with modern design, The Luna is clad in matte black, 100-year corrugated steel for a lived-in, yet contemporary look. New Frontier decided against filling up The Luna’s lengthier facades with windows, opting instead for a sweeping, floor-to-ceiling window wall on one end.

3. Road-Haus

Road-Haus is a 250sqf tiny cabin scaled down from a larger model designed by Wheelhaus, a tiny home company committed to modular and eco-friendly design practices. Considered crowd favorites by the tiny home company, Wheelhaus adorned Road-Haus with the same pitched roofline and wrap-around clerestory windows found on the Wedge model. From the bottom to the top, Road-Haus residents are immersed in the glory of the woods, with timber flooring that’s mirrored on the tiny home’s ceiling.

4. A45

Architecture firm BIG built a tiny black cabin in the Hudson Valley. Called A45, the cabin is a part of a series of tiny homes named Klein. The one-story structure occupies 183 square feet in the midst of lush greenery. Triangular walls come together to create a building that is similar to A-frame cabins. The interiors include a living and sleeping area, a cooktop, a bath, and a lofted space. “The design evolves from the traditional A-frame cabin, known for its pitched roof and angled walls which allow for easy rain run-off and simple construction,” said BIG. “The resulting crystal-like shape gives A45 an ever-changing appearance.”

5. The Ashen Cabin

Architecture studio Hannah built a tiny off-grid cabin in Upstate New York. Called Ashen Cabin, the home is supported by 3D printed concrete stilts. In fact, the walls of the cabin are made from infested ash wood! “From the ground up, digital design and fabrication technologies are intrinsic to the making of this architectural prototype, facilitating fundamentally new material methods, tectonic articulations, forms of construction, and architectural design languages,” Hannah said.

6. Cabin Moss

With its exterior constructed from only one building material, Cabin Moss is a tiny cabin built by Béres Architects located in the woods of Kőszeg, Hungary where it floats above a sloping terrain on a collection of thin stilts. When building Cabin Moss, the architects at Béres would return to the old proverb, “Measure twice, dig once.” Designed by Attila Béres and Attila Hideg, Cabin Moss seems to float atop an area of untouched forest ground, one of many choices made to preserve and respect the natural world that surrounds the cabin.

7. The Nook

The Nook is a tiny cabin located in the woods of North Carolina’s Appalachia designed with Scandinavian, Japanese, and Appalachian handcrafted elements to weave local craftwork together with a personal history. Brimming with artisanal goods and artwork of local craftsmen and artists, The Nook was designed to bring the handcrafted touch of the old world into the modern era. Described as a “collection of stories,” Belleme designed The Nook to link his personal history to the surrounding forest and architecture of the cabin.

8. Nido

In Finland, homes with a 96 to 128-square-foot floor plan do not require a building permit, which opened the door for Falck to construct his very own “compact getaway” deep in the woods of Sipoo. In building Nido, Falck maintained a sub-100 square-foot floor area and took to local recycled building materials to construct his tiny cabin. Working with such a modest floor plan and recycled building materials made the entire undertaking a lot more affordable, clocking in at just around $10,500. Falck was also able to champion the home’s construction work on his own, only needing an extra set of hands for carpentry work on a window and door frame.

9. The X-Suite

American firm M-Rad created a tiny cabin to accommodate people with disabilities. It includes a shower with a seat, doorways wide enough to let a wheelchair enter and exit the space. Called the X-Suite, it is located at Autocamp Yosemite, and occupies a space of 270 square feet.” The X-Suite exemplifies ADA-complaint design that doesn’t compromise beauty for functionality,” said the architecture studio. The cabin includes a bedroom, a bathroom, and an open-plan living room and kitchen.

10. The Willow

Tiny Cabin Architecture Designs for Micro Living

Tiny Cabin Architecture Designs for Micro Living

Perched somewhere in the rolling hills of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, a tiny cabin dubbed  ‘The Willow’  accommodates glampers and travelers alike inside a zany retreat that looks a lot like escape pods from old sci-fi flicks. With two rounded roofs, The Willow’s bulbous frame stands out against the sprawling green lawn where it’s situated. From the outside, The Willow appears like something straight from a science fiction cartoon, immediately drawing in its guests with its whimsical shape. Placed right in front of the tiny cabin’s wooden deck, two circular windows punctuate The Willow’s front-facing facade and provide unobstructed views of Pembroke’s countryside.

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A black-clad tiny home rises above the ground on a metal frame

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Topol-27 is a prefabricated, modular home clad with a black exterior to provide a cozy retreat from the wild outdoors.

Joining the tiny house movement, Moscow-based Bio Architects has finished work on Topol-27, a prefabricated, modular tiny home designed to “be picked up from the warehouse by the client, installed the same day, and be ready to live.” Comprised of five functional areas, Topol-27 is named after the square meterage it covers. With the aim of maximizing the available living space, Bio Architects fills Topol-27 out with a bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom, and dressing room.

Designer: Bio Architects

Built entirely offsite, Bio Architect’s prefabricated construction process cut down on the energy otherwise required for the shipping and handling of building material. Once transported to its final location, the home was positioned atop an aboveground metal frame that gives the home a lofty appeal. Walking through the front door, the home’s residents are greeted by the kitchen and dining area that merges seamlessly with the single sleeping space. Then, on the other end of the home, a bathroom and dressing room host all of the amenities needed for comfortable living.

Throughout Topol-27, subdued gray flooring adds to the home’s cozy appeal and durability with wear-resistant and hypoallergenic Forbo Flotex material. Breaking the barrier between the solid oak walls and the outdoors, expansive glass windows run the perimeter of the home. Culminating to a pentagonal window that borders the bed, the largest window of the home replaces an entire wall.

Adding to the environmental benefits of constructing a prefabricated home, Topol-27 is constructed from environmentally friendly and durable materials fit for the wear and tear of daily use. Solid oak and natural oak veneer clad the exterior of Topol-27, and a black metal overcoat gives the tiny home an obscure profile from the outside.

Built entirely offsite, the home’s construction included a spacious outdoor terrace that offers views of the surrounding landscape. While the outdoors offer a rugged backdrop for Topol-27, the home’s interior embraces furnishings that are made from sophisticated, quality materials to provide a comfortable respite from the wild terrain just outside.

Inside, a fireplace is included to heat the entire home and provide heating equipment for cooking. 

Black marble countertops provide the home with an air of sophistication. 

All about function, durability, and comfort, Topol-27’s main bedroom comes with accessible electrical outlets right beside the window wall.

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This tiny home sports a unique shape and open-plan interior to suspend guests over the river’s edge!

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Riverside Cabin is a tiny cabin with a unique shape and open-plan interior space to shelter visiting professors at the Universidad Austral de Chile.

On the banks of the Calle-Calle River in Valdivia, Región de Los Ríos, architects with Arce & Westermeier were commissioned to design and construct a shelter to function as a local professor’s riverside retreat. Located close to the Universidad Austral de Chile, the tiny home is called Riverside Cabin after its harmonic relationship with the Calle-Calle River. Brimming from the natural treeline that extends along the river’s edge, Riverside Cabin takes on an unconventional shape that embraces the home’s surrounding landscape and ecosystems.

Designer: Arce & Westermeier

In the initial stages of designing Riverside Cabin, the architects with Arce & Westermeier asked, “What kind of relationship with the river do we want: a traditional one, which seeks that each program enclosure manages to please itself with this unique geographical element? Or rather, one that selects where and how this visual pleasure is obtained?”

Upon realizing they’d like to explore the latter, Arce & Westermeier found Riverside Cabin’s unique look. Tilting one end of the cabin towards the sky elongated the internal volume and gave the ceiling lofty heights to accommodate the bi-level interior.

Inside the cabin, the ground-level hosts a bathroom that stands to the side of a space where the dining, kitchen, and living areas are combined. Then, moving up a few steps, the cabin’s residents are welcomed by the sleeping and study area that merges with an expansive floor-to-ceiling curtain wall that teeters off the river edge.

Dividing the cabin into two spaces, a wooden partition doubles as the bed’s headboard and the dining area’s seating arrangement. Maintaining an open-plan layout for the interior space, Arce & Westermeier architects wanted the main living space to be flexible.

Noting the spatial relationship between the two levels, architects at Arce & Westermeier note, “Thus, these different levels become both the living room and the seating for the dining table, in addition to functioning as a transitional space.”

Riverside Cabin is constructed primarily from dark, prefabricated metal plates that brace Chile’s rainy climate while offering a sort of cloak during the night. In contrast to the dark exterior, Riverside Cabin’s interior walls are clad in plywood to offer a warm refuge from the outdoors.

Come dark, the interior lights glower like a lantern in the night. 

The main priority in constructing the Riverside Cabin was for it to blend in with the surrounding architecture, without taking away from the available views of the river. 

The internal volume lifts up to bring guests over the river’s edge and provide the ceiling with lofty heights.

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This black timber cabin takes cues from traditional building methods to create a coastal family retreat!

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Le Refuge KE01 is a black timber cabin near the coastline of Keremma, France, built by Gayet Roger Architects to function as the firm’s co-founders’ family vacation home.

Somewhere in Keremma, France, just beyond the sea and behind a thicket of cypresses, a small sanctuary rises above the ground for a small family to find some respite. Designed to be the ultimate retreat for relaxation and rest, Le Refuge KE01 is a small black timber cabin with warm interiors by Gayet Roger Architects.

Designer: Gayet Roger Architects

Spearheaded by the firm’s co-founders, Anne and Aldric Gayet, the project was initially conceived to be an idyllic vacation home for the architects’ family. Measuring 850-square-feet, the black timber cabin was built in harmony with the surrounding landscape to brace weather conditions of all kinds.

Prone the flooding, the coastline of Keremma can be a tricky spot to build a home. Working with the natural topography, Le Refuge KE01’s final form is an asymmetrical cabin that’s positioned atop a raised platform that’s supported by four-foot-tall metal stilts. Rising to meet the height of the platform, a spacious, wraparound deck provides some lounge area on days when the weather permits.

Complementing the environment’s many cypress trees, Anne and Aldric turned to black Falun-style paint to coat the home’s exterior, which is clad in cross-laminated timber. Common throughout parts of Scandinavia, the Swedish pigment is used on cottages and cabins that have been in the area for centuries. Then, the home’s interior exudes a nest-like quality with warm, unfinished spruce cladding that inspired the architects to keep the interior design to a minimum.

Featuring only the essentials, the main personality of Le Refuge KE01 is found in its multiple floor-to-ceiling windows and bespoke furniture pieces. Built-in benches line the living areas throughout the home, while dining tables, shelving, and counters are also built into their respective rooms. Framing the integrated benches and storage spaces, windows of varying sizes punctuate each room, offering unfettered views of the untouched coastline just a few steps away.

Unfinished spruce class the interior of Le Refuge KE01.

Leaving the home to its bare essentials made room for sunlight to drench every corner. 

Inside, the home has a nest-like quality with warm spruce lining the walls. Outside, the black timber cloaks the cabin in mystery.

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This traveling tiny home goes from work to home and anywhere there is a road

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IMAGO-iter is a wooden mobile home that can be taken anywhere there’s a road for whatever reason, from camping to working.

Tiny homes might be the main show these days, but mobile homes are edging in on their spotlight. Designed to offer tiny living escapes on the move, mobile homes go where you go and don’t require any permits for use.

Whether you use them as off-grid workspaces or campers on the go, mobile homes provide cozy getaways that we can bring wherever the wind takes us. BESS, a Japanese building firm that specializes in wooden houses, designed and constructed a mobile home called IMAGO-iter to join the party and move with our changing needs.

IMAGO-iter carries a 6.5m2 interior volume with 2.4 meters’ worth of headspace, providing just enough room for buyers to customize the space according to their needs. BESS took a customizable approach in designing every aspect of IMAGO-iter, so the mobile home is outfitted with only the bare essentials.

From the outside, the 70mm thick domestic cedar wood facades remain unfinished so buyers can paint the mobile home in any color that speaks to them. When customizing their own trailer, buyers of IMAGO-iter can also choose between a traditional timber or a domed, wagon-like plastic membrane roof.

On all four sides of IMAGO-iter, windows open up to the outdoors so users can always feel close to the landscape surrounding them. Suspension and electromagnetic brakes have also been worked into IMAGO-iter’s build to help ensure stable and safe driving.

In addition to the trailer’s incorporated safety features, BESS conducted a driving test through Japan’s Automobile Research Institute to confirm that “sufficiently stable driving was possible.”

Designer: BESS

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This tiny home on wheels uses colourful windows to create a fun space for a young family

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Planedennig is a tiny home on wheels built for a mother and her young son to balance playtime with relaxation.

Considering the number of tiny homes to come out of recent years, distinguishing one tiny home from another can be hard. After all, there’s only so much space to work with, many tiny home builders prioritize efficiency and function over unique design. Then, there are always the unicorns that have it all.

Designer: Baluchon

No stranger to unicorns, Baluchon is a tiny home company co-founded by Laëtitia and Vincent who devote their time to building tiny houses on wheels for clients and their various needs. Planedennig, a tiny house on wheels built for a mother and her young son, finds some pizzazz with a colorful exterior and functionality with a multifunctional interior.

Planedennig, which translates to ‘little planet’ in Breton, was designed and built for Gaël and Eflamm, a mother and her young son, to have a place for living and for play. Defined by its colorful joinery that punctuates the exterior, Planedennig’s outer facade keeps a cedar finish that helps calm the playful energy. Measuring a total length of only six feet, Planedennig has a unique layout that makes the most of the tiny home’s interior volume.

While there is no integrated off-grid technology, Planedennig only requires a standard RV-style hookup to power up all of its amenities. The home’s entrance is located in the kitchen, right beside the wall-mounted, wood-burning stove. Upon entering Planedennig, residents are immediately welcomed with a window opposite the entrance that brings in views of the outdoors

Right below the kitchen window, residents enjoy a full kitchen, equipped with a sink, two-burner propane-powered stovetop, dining table, refrigerator and freezer, an oven, as well as ample storage space for appliances and kitchenware.

Right next door to the kitchen, a cozy living area leaves space for a roomy couch and small reading nook. Then, when the pull-out couch isn’t in use, guests enter the bathroom from the living room, where they will find a toilet, storage space, and a small hip bath and shower.

Upstairs, Gaël and Eflamm find their respective bedrooms. Accessible via a staircase next to the kitchen, Gaël’s bedroom is a small loft bedroom with a double bed. Then, a netted play area connects to Eflamm’s bedroom, where a twin mattress cozies beneath an expansive pentagonal window.

The kitchen blends seamlessly with the living area which is connected to the full-size bathroom.

The upstairs children’s bedroom is a lofted area with enough room for a twin-sized bed and a few pieces of furniture.

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