An Inspirational, Low Budget Tiny Home In the Trees Wins Small Home of the Year

This property is located in Brooklyn, Wellington. It is a steep site covered in bush. We had previously designed a house for these clients on the lower part of that site. They approached us again with the idea to sensitively densify the steep upper part of their property with a small home that could be rented out. This is a prefabricated building design that creates cost-effective solutions. This minifab is just 37 square meters, but it encloses a series of spaces that feel voluminous and offers a private sanctuary with expensive views over the landscape combined with crossover view shafts to the bush. This design aims to negate the small footprint by providing a generous volume and expensive deck areas cantilevered amongst the trees and doubling the internal area of living. A separate bedroom is tucked away under the highest point of the gable creating a privacy and a sense of floating over the steep site. We think in designing small homes we have a real opportunity there to reduce the footprints as we look forward to a higher densified living in New Zealand. I think this is an example of what we can achieve. Without compromising on design we put priority on finding sustainable solutions and here with that house I think we have achieved that.