Not another tiny home! And this one on wheels. Isn’t that what tourists drag around the countryside all summer?
Well, not quite. Not when it’s designed by an architectural student with a fetish for cramming essential housing functions into unlikely places while making them attractive at the same time.
Moreover, this architectural student has cleverly solved one of the most difficult problems for a tiny home owner — finding the place to tuck the house where it is legal and nobody will complain. In his case it’s outside the Architecture Faculty at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. For more thoughts on practical issues regarding sites for tiny homes, try: Trials & Tribulations Of Trendy Tiny Homes
Once fully operational, with insulation and heating suitable for a Canadian winter, it’s designed to be towed thousands of miles west to house his mother.
Is this project just a one-off vanity construction with little more use than every other oversized trailer on the road? With municipalities across North America relaxing rules to allow grannie flats and garden suites, this particularly attractive kind of moveable tiny home might find greater acceptance from neighbours.
Together with its year-round liveability, it could be a new breed of garden suite, providing extra income for the principal homeowner, and an economic rental for a housing-strapped tenant. Its future? With mother moving into long term care, and the mobile home surplus to requirements? Hitch it up and move it to another welcoming location.
Read more at the CBC: Home small home: Student’s tiny house gets big response
