Muuuz - Webzine Architecture & Design

Creator of tiny houses, l’américain Jay Shafer sillone the United States to divide his vision and his know-how. To the flying one of his pick up, a house of 9 M² by way of trailer, Shafer organizes in every city step of the workshops and does to discover to the curious one and to the fascinated another manner d’habiter. The latter years, it in fact conceived 8 models d’habitation: 5 microphones houses of 6 to 11 m² and 3 more "generous" of 23 to 72 M².

Cantor of l’habitat modest, Shafer lives him even since 1997 in one of its creations, a house of 8 m², the model Epu. Realized in drinks in the purest style house of doll, this optimized maisonnette proposes in ground floor a space of life with office, of multiples space tidying up, a frying pan, a kitchenette and a space soaks with WC. Accessible by a ladder, l’étage shelters him a bed 2 places, a space modestly called "sleeping loft" by his designer. A visit s’impose…

Even if their romantic aesthetic one does not lack charm, the creations of Shafer Are worth especially by the philosophy that underlies them. Advocating a simple life, ridded superfluous one, the designer hunts to the useless and unused spaces proposes a space of essential life for a minimal energetic consumption and an environmental impact reduces. A political vision éco-responsable that moved itself in an economical model to the perfectly chiseled slogan, "big Dream, Build Small". Shafer propose in fact its models to the sale through his site internet From 36 997 USD in built version and from 995 USD for a maisonnette to realize oneself d’après the plans furnish.

To use as extension some melts course, garden hut, rolls to pull the cards or principal lodging, on crisis American real estate funds this method d’habitation will be able to seem to the most cynical ones terribly in l’air time…