SMALL
Living
SMALL: The Life of Small Houses
A great new book about the value of living in a small, purposeful
house
A GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
A simple and sustainable look at the potential of small houses
SMALL: The Life of Small Houses is about the value of living in a small house. The book is written as a graphic narrative, mixing layers of visual information with interactive 3D building information models (BIM) to illustrate the development of small houses.
The book begins with an overview of large market driven houses, McMansion and MiniMcMansions, and compares them with two purposeful houses designed to meet the specific needs of their owners.
The idea of a house having a clearly defined purpose is then reviewed in four small houses built by early settlers and farmers in the US including Thoreau’s house on Waldon Pond. The graphic narrative and 3D models show how these houses served their owners as functional working shelters.
SMALL goes on to trace the development of worker housing built in the US for an increasingly industrialized nation. This begins with four small free standing farm worker houses and includes an example of a house built in a remote company town.
The book and 3D BIM computer models continue with four examples of houses developed to meet the growing demand of housing. This includes early bandbox and shotgun houses that quickly evolved into a market for stylized homes like the bungalows and the minimalist tract houses found in the US.
Important is that an industry of construction trades and suppliers paralleled the evolution of housing and were able meet the demand for mass produced housing.
SMALL concludes with
four tiny houses that return to the scale of the one room houses built
by early settlers. This includes moveable houses like early travel trailers
as well as the deconstructible houses found in squatter settlements. Tiny
houses are examples of the purposeful nature of small, simple, and sustainable
shelter in an ever changing world.
ISBN: 0-9762741-1-6
$29.95
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