Tiny house for tiny-house villages and eco-villages

Permanent living means four seasons, not twenty weeks

A unit lived in in January needs something different from one locked up in October. Insulation, heating, ventilation with heat recovery, frost-proof water routing and glazing are chosen for the climate at the site — a village in the Harz and one on the Baltic make different demands. Which components that concerns and why is on the quality page.

And residents need storage. A layout for guests gets by with a suitcase; a layout for residents has to take winter clothes, tools, supplies and what a life accumulates. That changes furniture, loft and ancillary rooms — and for permanent living often argues for the longer variants of the models.

Shared services: what the village provides

A village services its sites jointly: one power connection for all, one water main, one wastewater solution — municipal, a small treatment plant or a mixed form. What the village provides determines what makes sense in the units: fuse rating per unit, hot water, heating, whether photovoltaics and storage belong in the unit or in the village.

We design the units for the services the village plans and say in advance what that means for technology and cost. The services themselves — mains, treatment plant, access — are the planning of the village and its specialist planners.

Development plan, permit and operating model

Under planning law a tiny-house village needs a site where permanent living is permitted — usually a development plan that designates it, and per unit a building permit or a procedure that replaces it. That differs by Land and by municipality and is for the project, its planners and the authority.

Then there is the operating model: do residents buy their unit and lease the site? Does an association or a cooperative operate all units? Both are possible, both change who talks to us and who needs the documents. We supply the technical product documents on the house for both routes; we do not replace legal or permit advice.

Delivery in stages as the village grows

Villages rarely come about all at once. Five units in the first year, eight in the second when new residents and new sites are added. Delivery is therefore planned in stages, with a route, access and placement that can be repeated. Identical layouts within a stage simplify production and delivery; variants per resident are possible if decided before the stage.

The way from production is by road, with a Ro-Ro or ferry leg depending on the destination. The 2.55 m base width of all models keeps transport possible without oversize; the final access to the site we check with the project before the first stage.