“Short Story”
Made from recycled paper, this tiny home explores sustainable architecture and low-impact construction!
In Spring Valley, Nevada, Roundhouse Platform constructed an architectural prototype built to explore the contextual relationship between space, structure, and texture within a small accessory building called Short Story, a 2.4m by 2.4m desert dwelling.
From the outside, Short Story appears like a simple, cubic shed that’s familiar in texture, build, and shape compared to nearby desert dwellings. While the outside does look familiar from afar, a closer look reveals the building’s changing gradient from bleached sandstone with wispy textures near the building’s base to rusty, brick red tones near the building’s top as a result of the cladding materials’ varying applied thickness.
Moving inside, latticed, whitewashed wood framing expands the building into a multi-level, open-plan space where residents can climb between floors using a staircase formed out of rough-hewn logs.
The project took three weeks to build and adopts a low-impact construction practice with sustainable materials.
Courtesy: Roundhouse Platform
(Roundhouse is a curatorial platform that fosters public engagement across industries like architecture, archival research, and post-industrial site excavation. Roundhouse investigates urban change through public engagement missions by unveiling site-specific histories through creative site exploration, archival research, publication, and exhibitions.)