Living Outdoors

The quote I mentioned in the last post; 'By making the house and landscape indivisible, nature outside comes inside making us always aware of the power and spirit of the landscape we live in' (Page 34, The Owner Builder Magasine, Issue 35) pretty much sums up the idea which first drew me to small housing.

I am particularly interested in how small housing can emphasis the link between a building occupants, the building and the landscape.

I was initially draw to microhousing by the emphasis it places on outdoor spaces, and how a buildings occupants occupy the spaces around their homes as extensions of the building, essentially bringing the inside out.

However a more potent and perhaps less obvious side to this relationship is how the building, and its occupants, are informed by; and react to their environment.

I feel that I have felt this first hand, in my experiences living in this small building, and it is perhaps touched upon in Shay Solomons 'Little House for a Small Planet', however its an interesting field, worthy of further investigation.