Kampung-inspired GreenMan Tiny Home
As someone who may never be able to afford a conventional house, I have been checking out alternatives, such as prefabricated houses, container cabins and tiny homes such as those made by Ana White and her husband.
Last week, when I was in Kuala Lumpur, it so happened that The GreenMan Tiny Home was on display at Kompleks Kraf Kuala Lumpur along Jalan Conlay.
You can imagine my excitement not only to see that a tiny home is actually viable, but to realise that this Tiny Home is Malaysia’s first ever extreme zero energy, completely off-grid, carbon neutral and affordable house.
This prototype of The GreenMan Tiny Home is only the size of a parking bay but it generates its own electricity, harvests rainwater for its occupants and even recycles its own wastes.
Long story short, the Tiny Home is fully functional on its own and doesn’t need external power supply, water source or sewage treatment.
As though that is not impressive enough, the Tiny Home was constructed entirely on sustainable or recycled materials.
Its compact size is by design – its portability allows it to be moved to different locations, hence it is a suitable means of housing for victims of floods and other natural disasters.
The GreenMan Tiny Home is championed by sustainable advocate, Matthias Gelber, who is known internationally as ‘The Green Man’, and his team.
This Tiny Home is available for viewing at Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM), Jalan Chan Sow Lin in Kuala Lumpur. Do make a visit if you are interested to see how eco-living can be promoted.
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instead of just trashing all the items that can be reused, you can use it for this kinda home. kinda inspiring for me
Awesome mini house. I’d like to have this too. Thanks for the information.
wondering if we can buy one of these green homes and live like the Japanese do… hahahah
The GreenMan Tiny Home is so cute. great that it has everything we need in the home
so creative and eco-friendly! will definitely check it out!
What an interesting concept! Maybe in the future you will see lots of this as housing is getting incredibly expensive.
Wow this is soo cool! And truly exo friendly 🙂 Do they only make this for charity? I would like this for our extention homr, to get a little privacy 🙂
Love this kind of concept. I would love to grow old in this kind of house.
Wow~ First time saw home like this. Really tiny =3
This is a really great concept, love the design of this tiny house.
I have never heard about this tiny home. But the it’s a real good concept that it made up with sustainable materials and it’s portable :O
I completely agree that this tiny green homes should build more and probably more bigger homes can start applying some of the ‘green ways’ to their house…it would make such a big difference to our environment surely
what a Tiny house, but its cute and l like the use of natural light source and air vent
Dear Emily
Do you know how to design house on wheel automation like the famous house on wheel Korea show with dbkl license budget 15k++