TINY HOUSE

TYPE | Construction

LOCATION | North Philadelphia, PA

AREA | 175 sqft

The Tiny House is a student-designed and student-constructed sustainable building. It's 175 square feet and locates at Temple Community Garden on Main Campus. The project has offered interdisciplinary learning opportunities for students and faculty and serves as a programming space for Temple Community Garden and a university demonstration project.

Completed in Spring 2017, the net-zero structure features a high-performance thermal envelope construction, vegetated roof, rainwater harvesting, solar photovoltaic system, thermal energy collection and storage, and composting sanitary plumbing system.

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