When designing REDUKT tiny houses, we want to reinterpret housing itself and what a place to live is. We are considering how to reduce our impact on the environment and gently become part of it. We dream of being able to live in a place we have spontaneously come to love and find the balance of daily life there.
That's what a couple from Vienna was looking for as well when they ordered a REDUKT PURA mobile house from us.
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Mobility is the key
Their plot of land in the south of Austria offers a beautiful view of the surrounding hills, but building a house on it would have been time-consuming and expensive. As the hosts are open to changes, they decided to buy a house on wheels where mobility is an additional advantage. This flexibility in choosing where to live opens up new opportunities and new window frames for the future.
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Tiny house with off-grid package
The house had to be energy self-sufficient, leave the smallest possible carbon footprint and provide a healthy microclimate for the homeowners. Taking on the first challenge, we equipped it with a full off-grid package, including:
- a comprehensive Victron Energy solar power system with solar panels on the roof and an inverter, generating electricity that is stored in a battery,
- a 400-liter water tank with filters, providing bathroom and kitchen facilities,
- a dry composting toilet that does not need to be connected to the sewer system,
- a gas water heater, conveniently providing hot water for showering at any time of the day or night,
- wood stove - an extremely effective and at the same time sensual source of heat that warms you up on cold evenings.
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The efficiency of the solar system allows the lighting installation in a typical 230V system, supportingly infrared heating floor foils for an extra comfort and a full-size under-counter refrigerator in the kitchen.
The PURA house was designed with a large technical room under the lowered mezzanine, where all technical devices are located, along with the sensors controlling them, acting as a cockpit but with autopilot on ;)
The house remains easy to operate, while providing its owners the comfort of staying all year round on the plot without access to any utilities.
Alternative housing
The second theme – healthy alternative construction – is embedded in the DNA of the REDUKT brand. Our houses are built using timber construction; here we filled the certified spruce timber frame with our favorite material – sheep wool. It is not only an effective insulator, but also breaks down pollutants and odors, dampens noise and regulates moisture by absorbing or releasing it, being a natural air conditioner. It is also 100% renewable and compostable.
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The house's interior walls are finished with poplar plywood and treated with hard oil wax based on renewable natural raw materials. They remain open diffusively, which allows the interior to "breathe".
The aesthetics of the interior are complemented by noble natural oak flooring and plywood furniture in contrasting colors, essential to the full functionality of the space we designed down to the last detail.
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Interior of the house
PURA house always welcomes with:
- a spacious living area, open to the surrounding landscape through the glazings, where you can sit on fold-out corner sofa,
- a functional kitchenette,
- a bedroom on a mezzanine with a skylight window,
- a comfortable bathroom with a shower.
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Our standard model also has a fold-out desk along with a side cabinet by the narrow, high window. The sliding ladder next to it provides convenient access to the mezzanine overlooking the stars.
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In harmony with nature
The architecture of PURA house blended perfectly with the surrounding landscape, generously framing nature through huge windows. The sloping roof, along with the dark wood facade, continue the line of sloping roofs of neighboring houses and the hillsides.
Our dream was to build a house that heals the body and mind. According to its inhabitants, the goal has been achieved.
Photo: Emanuel Kaspar