I’m seeing more designers foray into small modular cabins that can be easily installed in any remote location. Tiny homes have really become hip in the West. Its a lot more easier to build with prefab tech. At the moment we are seeing folks give up their current houses which they feel are over sized and over priced for their own actual requirements. Many studies have been conducted the past 2 decades on how we use our homes. You will find that only a few areas are actually used a lot. This fact allows us to be more effcient in our design and thereby reduce the builtup area. This allows you to have multi-use reconfigurable spaces which in effect is the highlight of these homes.
This one has a floor space of 24 sqm and an optional 12 sqm increase.
I saw a home in the blue hills a few years back. The home owner is a friend of a friend and had asked me to execute the landscape for his tiny home. When I went to the site I found a 7500 sqft mansion with hardly any space for a garden.
I was perplexed and could not decipher if he really meant it when he said it was a tiny house or was it irony in some way.
In any case my work ended with a brief sketch since the garden was too small and the site too far for me to send my staff and execute it. There were plenty of part time gardeners around there to execute the job. It mostly works out better if you execute using local folks.
We in India have to learn to respect the site a lot more and build according to the sites conditions. If your site is a beautiful corner in a hill station then allow it to remain a beautiful corner. We should remember the fact that we are just visitors and not permanent residents. This awareness of our “journey” will ensure that we treat our surroundings with more respect and thereby our footsteps into the site will be in accordance to what we actually need.