A small home designed around its resource systems
Shrinking a home brings its supply systems closer to the living space. WOHNWAGON treats those systems as part of the design. Its homes can be configured with options for power, heating and water according to what a site allows and what the household needs.
AT AustriaIn practice. Austria’s WOHNWAGON brings energy and water choices into the design of small timber homes.
What to keep in view
Equipment and autonomy vary with the model, location and approvals. Review the actual specification.
Ask what the home depends on
The appeal of a compact house comes partly from knowing what it takes to keep it running. Solar generation, storage, heating and water can be selected as a set of systems. Sizing them needs information about occupancy, seasonal demand and whether there is a connection to local services.
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Bring the services with the shelter.
Compare how two compact homes make electricity, heating and water visible in the design brief.
A neighbourhood designed to move
Minitopia adds the separate question of how a small home gets land and a place in a neighbourhood.