{"id":38684,"date":"2020-12-02T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/sur-la-voie-des-habitats-legers\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:59:54","slug":"on-the-way-to-light-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/on-the-way-to-light-habitats\/","title":{"rendered":"On the way to light habitats"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Axel lives in the middle of the fields. In a small house all dressed in wood. Built on a trailer. He lives in a Tiny House.<\/span><\/p>

The Tiny House movement is a concept of life and architecture advocating minimalism and voluntary sobriety. The movement emerged in the United States in the 2000s and has continued to expand until really explodes in France over the past five years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Co-inhabit the earth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A Tiny House is a small house generally of about 13m2 of floor space built on a trailer with a wooden frame and ecological materials. The main idea behind the concept is to completely rethink our way of living and inhabiting the world by eliminating superfluous needs and keeping only the bare essentials. Since the creation of the movement, Tinys have mainly been self-built habitats with a very strong desire to seek energy autonomy and have a lower impact on the ground. The ecological aspect and the search for well-being are the driving forces behind the design of the micro house, and the construction on a trailer responds to several important issues: the desire for a mobile home, the low cost of construction (compared to the colossal investment required today for conventional real estate) and the very low impact on the ground during construction (since Tinys applies the same principles as a house on stilts, thus not impacting the ground by below or very little).<\/p>

Today the movement having gained momentum, more and more small businesses are starting to create and sell Tiny Houses. If the expansion of the concept allows the ideas conveyed to reach more and more people, we must be careful of the perverse effects that this could cause. A loss of the initial ideals (minimalism, ecology, autonomy, possible but limited movement, etc.) could occur. This is already the case with Ikea<\/strong><\/a>, which has been developing Tiny Houses for a few months now. We are far from the starting principles in search of frugality and simplicity.<\/p>

The other problem concerns French legislation. Tiny Houses do not fit today in any box of the laws on housing, real estate and land and this can generate friction. Where to live ? On what ground? With or without taxes? The ideas conveyed by this way of life are new to the minds of the larger world and in complete opposition to today’s habitat and conventional construction. The increase in the number of Tinys on French territory for barely two years has caused turbulence among elected officials and the laws are in the process of changing. And not necessarily in a good way. This new way of inhabiting the earth scares the systems in place and fear often generates a hardening of measures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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