How a talented architect makes an RV look like a charming cabin in the woods The tiny house movement has become a big thing as more and more people try to live with a smaller financial, environmental and physical footprint. As Alek Lisefski noted in his Tiny Project, it's about less house and more life. It's also about laws, that regulate what can go down a road, what can go on a property under zoning bylaws, what code it gets built under. That's why so many of the tiny houses are under 8'-6" wide and weigh less than 10,000 pounds, so that they can go down the road towed by a private car and be classed as an Recreational Vehicle, or RV. © Escape/ Canoe Bay 400 square feet doesn't sound like much but it's bigger than many one bedroom apartments; you can build a really nice little house at that size. ESCAPE was conceived as a high quality cottage, not an RV. There are so many trade-offs a designer has to weigh when putting something like this together. The unit at Canoe Bay is heated by a sealed combustion, high efficiency fireplace....there is no furnace.
Les hikikomori : ces Japonais qui s’enferment chez eux à cause de la crise La crise économique que subit le Japon depuis le début des années 1990 a fait émerger un être étrange : l’hikikomori. Ce sont, pour la plupart, des hommes qui vivent reclus chez eux depuis plus de 6 mois, comptant généralement sur leurs parents pour survivre. Ils ne travaillent pas, ne font pas d’études, ne sortent pas, ne rencontrent personne, sans pour autant souffrir d’une quelconque maladie mentale. Dans les rues de Tokyo (lire notre reportage), la misère se fait discrète. Outre la situation économique difficile, le phénomène prend racine dans l’organisation particulière de la société japonaise. Autre explication possible : les mutations culturelles du pays.