Tiny House Design

I spotted this on Shedworking this morning. The LifePod™ is being developed by a company in San Diego, California called Envision Solar and should be available in 2010. Envision Solar builds many different kinds of photovoltaic panel topped shade structures like those you see popping up over parking lots.

The LifePod™ takes that shade structure idea a step farther by enclosing the support structure and providing interior space. It will be available as a kit and turn key solution. It will be interesting to see what kind of pricing they come up with for this little building. I like the idea and can see how many people would benefit from a high quality prefab kits like this if the price is right.

Alex at Shedworking has picked a winner, actually two, for his Shedworking HQ contest. The design on the left is a floating shed with a green roof submitted by Paul at Roomworks and on the right a design submitted by John at secrets-of-shed-building. While my submission didn’t win I’m still very excited to see so many people share their ideas. It’s exciting to see small shed and house design opening up and watching the ideas flow. My personal favorite was actually the shed cluster submitted by Joseph Sandy. Visit Shedworking to learn more about the winners.

You might recall that Alex at Shedworking recently moved and now needs a new garden office shed. Just for fun he’s running a little design competition and has received several proposals but this shed cluster caught my eye. It was designed by architect Joseph Sandy. You might also remember the shed Joseph built out of mostly reclaimed building materials that was featured a couple weeks ago on Tiny House Blog. Continue Reading »

Alex at Shedworking recently left his garden shed office behind when he moved. After settling into his new place he then invited people to submit ideas and designs for his next shed. Of course this sounded like a lot of fun to me so I fired up Google Sketchup and my imagination and got to work. This is the design I landed on, simple and functional.

It measures 12′ by 12′ and has a 4′ by 8′ porch. Notice that the side walls are not the same height which gives the roof a little bit of a asymmetrical cottage look. The steep 12/12 pitch also provides a very high ceiling and to bring in more light into the interior I added a little shed dormer on one side. Continue Reading »

Alex, the fellow behind Shedworking, is running a little shed design competition. He recently moved leaving his old shed behind and now needs a new backyard shed to serve as headquarters for Shedworking. You don’t have to be a designer, everyone is welcome to participate and he’s accepting illustrations or written descriptions. For complete details visit Shedworking.

Just for fun, and to help spark imaginations, I’ve posted a simple Google SketchUp 3D file with 10 sheds (tiny houses). Feel free to download the file and create you’re own original drawing or build on one of the houses/sheds already started in the file. I’m still working on my submission and will post it here on Tiny House Design sometime this next week. Continue reading to download the SketchUp file and see all 10 designs. Continue Reading »