TINY HOUSE PROJECT

Fall 2019, Building structure class

Instructor: Daekwon Park

Teammates: Bryce Edwards, Nicholas Chung, Leyla Ramelmeier

Location: Indian Head and Fish HawkCliffs, NY

A project of designing a tiny house. We designed a glampers' portaledge, which can accomodate 1 to 4 people. The programs include kitchen,toilet, sleeping space, etc.

The primary structure of the project consists of four cantilevers. There are secondary turnbuckle systems to resist the buckling forces from the cantilevers. Since this project is hung from the cliff, users use ladders to access the house. The house is a two-story building with its upper floor being public space and the lower floor is private space. The front face of the house is a big glass curtain wall, providing a magnificent view from the cliff. In order to control lighting/shading from the curtain wall, we introduced a movable steel panel supported by a gear system. Users can manually open and close the steel panel by rolling the gear.