According to a 2021 report by the US Census Bureau, it takes approximately 7.2 months (219 days) to build a single-unit building.
Nowadays, companies, particularly those in the construction industry are making ways to help the environment while keeping the business going.
This idea of protecting Mother Nature transcended ordinary people with extraordinary minds like the couple we’ll be featuring here.
Meet Heather and Walker.
The couple has received praise online for implementing something called a “biophilic” design into their tiny home.
Briefly put, this practice works to marry our inner environments to the vast beauty and functionality of the natural world outside.
When talking about a place that has a functional kitchen, bed, receiving area, bathroom, and toilet, you wouldn’t imagine them all squeezing into a 250 square feet floor area, would you?
Heather and Walker, although they have a huge house that’s equipped with five bedrooms and two bathrooms, still decided to build this little yet functional home.
Their main focus was “biomimicry”.
Talking about the main idea in building the little house, Walker said, “Biomimicry. That’s the whole thing here—biophilic design. If you know about Fibonacci, that’s the curve.”
They wanted to incorporate the tiny home into where it is built, nature – grass, land, trees, flowers, and everything that’s living around them.
Their surroundings shaped the home.
Walker also said that the house was built in accordance with the “Living Building Challenge” principle.
“Every building should be built the way a flower exists in its place. It should be rooted in place, it should collect the water that falls on it, [and] it should collect and use only the sun that falls on it.”
They also mimicked a leaf’s shape to design the house, given the waveform-looking roofline.
They also implemented a “living roof”.
They also came up with a bright idea of creating a living roof.
The couple used a recycled foam carpet pad, ¼ inch layer of fortified soil with biochar, lightweight pumice mix, and a few other natural substances.
The majority of the materials that they used were recycled items, from the roof down to the floor, and even the exterior details of the house.
They made “sustainable” look beautiful.
What welcomes anyone who goes into the tiny home is a majestic glass door and window that gives a glimpse of the greeneries outside.
To its right are a cozy couch and a loft bed for their daughter, Michaela.
But their ceiling is the star.
The ceiling also deserves to be talked about because of how it’s done.
According to Walker, the material used for the ceiling was recycled oak wood flooring that was bent to emphasize the curved ceiling itself.
The storage design is incredible.
Walker and Heather’s tiny house is packed with a lot of space savers.
It has staircases that hide their pantry, the fridge, a wash-dry appliance, and the oven.
They incorporated nature into the kitchen.
The kitchen is also one-of-a-kind because it has a pull-out chopping board and a detachable portion that makes the whole countertop large enough to accommodate three people at once.
Walker said that it was crafted from a beetle-killed pine donated to them by a local wood supplier.
According to Walker, the tiny house was only the beginning and they plan on having a “Phase 2” of this project.
Also, he said that they might end up having their original house rented so they could stay more in their tiny house.
Take a full tour of Heather and Walker’s nature-shaped tiny house in the video below!
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