We designed and built a low maintenance tiny house with energy efficiency, health and warmth as a priority. Along with high levels of insulation, the house features a small local Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) system to ensure fresh air circulation while retaining heat, making it both efficient and comfortable, year round. We also incorporated high performance vapor barrier membranes into the construction to prevent moisture buildup and enhance insulations effectiveness, as well as double glazing to improve performance and prevent condensation build up. Additionally, the tiny house is relocatable, offering flexibility for the owners without sacrificing comfort or eco-friendliness. It's a compact yet functional space, carefully crafted for our client, to provide a warm, energy-efficient living experience wherever they go. The external cladding is a combination of mac weatherboards, which grey up beautifully, and low maintenance, long lasting coloursteel..
The client has since, added a deck and covered pergola to connect it to other buildings, so the covered outdoor area serves as a summer lounge.
High Performing
Tiny Home
Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) design
A discrete in wall local heat recovery ventilation system ensures fresh air and a good nights sleep year round, with no heat loss on cooler nights.
The system provides fresh warmed filtered air, as it heats the air entering the room, with the warm air that is extracted out, so that no warmth is lost, unlike, with open windows, where you loose all the paid for heat out the window,
Healthier Living -better sleeps!
This ensures that the building can be locked up, and secure, when not in use, without any mold concerns, and also ensures that the room remains fresh and a healthy environment, So that in the winter, the occupants are cosy and warm, but also have a supply of fresh air, eliminating CO2 level concerns, so it doesn’t get stuffy and CO2 levels remain at healthy levels, for a better nights sleep, so you can wake up fresh, and well rested. MVHR systems minimize energy costs by only paying for your heating once.
(Waking up not feeling rested or your best?-Raised CO2 levels in poorly ventilated rooms and homes can lead to many health issues, including poor concentration, headaches, and dizziness, nausea, fatigue and many more issues. Talk to us about how we can refresh your home for a healthier indoor environment)
Access and Privacy
Walkthrough internal barn doors optimize space, with separate access to each area from the outside also, for privacy when required. This option for openness as required, expands the small spaces, and allows for good air circulation, and long vistas, which ensures a spacious feel, in an otherwise small space.
Design features-garden access and outlook to ensure a spacious feel
Bifold opening double glazed aluminum doors, which have the option of being fully open, or single door use, means that the lounge opens fully onto the deck, or can be accessed through a single door, also.
Cladding features
Timeless macrocarpa vertical weatherboards age well, and have an exquisite sheen as they age.
High levels of insulation and moisture control
Above building code wall insulation means a futureproof home that won’t over-heat due to the high levels of insulation in 140mm thick walls, using high performance vapor membranes to ensure a healthy internal environment.
Design considerations for transportability
Services are mounted on the end wall for simple transportation, This home needed to be able to be relocatable with a very tight driveway access, so every detail was thought through to ensure height, width, etc. would facilitate easy relocation.
