Big Tiny House Glencairn
This big tiny house is for client Pierre Henry van der Spuy and is still
in its planning stage. Pierre is an urban farmer and freelance
photographer and off-grid and self-sufficiency enthusiast. The site
is on a steep north facing slope close to Fishhoek a fishing village
on the Cape Town peninsula.
The current design is the 3rd revision of previous designs that started
off as a building with a steel framed structure with infill mud walls. The
building evolved into its final stage becoming smaller and smaller. A
strict modular composite panel system including insulation based on
uncut 1220x2440 plywood sheets fits inside a pre-manufactured steel
framed, thus optimising cost, wastage and enabling quick assembly
on site. The building has a final Corten steel finish with random
perforations overlapping doors and windows. The pattern was generated
by Grasshopper and Rhino algorithmic software.
The building services are all off-grid with onsite rainwater harvesting,
a methane gas digester for cooking fed by the urban farms waste
materials and solar/wind hybrid for electricity generation.
This big tiny house is for client Pierre Henry van der Spuy and is still
in its planning stage. Pierre is an urban farmer and freelance
photographer and off-grid and self-sufficiency enthusiast. The site
is on a steep north facing slope close to Fishhoek a fishing village
on the Cape Town peninsula.
The current design is the 3rd revision of previous designs that started
off as a building with a steel framed structure with infill mud walls. The
building evolved into its final stage becoming smaller and smaller. A
strict modular composite panel system including insulation based on
uncut 1220x2440 plywood sheets fits inside a pre-manufactured steel
framed, thus optimising cost, wastage and enabling quick assembly
on site. The building has a final Corten steel finish with random
perforations overlapping doors and windows. The pattern was generated
by Grasshopper and Rhino algorithmic software.
The building services are all off-grid with onsite rainwater harvesting,
a methane gas digester for cooking fed by the urban farms waste
materials and solar/wind hybrid for electricity generation.
