cluttonfred
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# Posted: 18 Jun 2019 13:38 - Edited by: cluttonfred
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Longtime kit home company Shelter Kit used to offer their Unit One design, basically a 12' x 12' (144 sq ft) shed-roof tiny cabin and optional porches and extensions that you could combine in various ways to make as big a structure as you wanted.
David and Jeanie Stiles have pitched a concept for a Sugar Cube House out of even smaller 8' x 8' (64 sq ft) modules. I don't really buy the "millennial living in their parents' backyard" concept, but the design itself is neat.
There are some inherent inefficiencies to this approach in terms of materials and heating costs because of volume vs. surface area. On the other hand, there are some definite advantages for someone building alone, or on a tight budget, or in a remote location (especially if building prefabricated panels elsewhere for quick assembly at the cabin site).
I could see starting with a little 8' x 8' module for the first year, possibly tall enough for a sleeping loft, kind of a permanent tent in the woods with a removable "plug" in the side wall. The next year you build a second module with two side wall holes, one that lines up with the first module and one that becomes the new home for the plug. And so on....
What do folks think of the approach? Are there any other DIY cabin designs made of nearly identical small modules that come to mind?
Cheers,
Matthew
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