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The home is accessible year-round, although snowy winters and road closures make the trip from Seattle a bit longer during the colder months.

Floor Plan of Tinyleaf by GO’C

Two pull-down compartments in the kitchen hide an electric cooktop and chopping block, while paper towels are tucked away in a curved yellow container. “I didn’t want anything out in the open,” Ash says.

A wood-burning stove heats the 840-square-foot home during winter months.

As Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento of La Base embraced modular design as part of their architectural practice, they noticed that prospective clients were wary of prefabricated construction. So the duo teamed up with Place, an Argentine prefab builder, to make a proof of concept just outside the Patagonian resort town of Bariloche.

The Portuguese firm Madeiguincho designed a trio of tiny homes for a regenerative agriculture farm in Alqueva in southeast Portugal.

These three tiny homes are designed with passive design strategies to minimize their potential impact on the environment.

Suzanne Shelton built a "little cottage to get away to" on Tennessee's Norris Lake that's equipped with both rainwater-harvesting and solar-power systems for off-the-grid living.

The roof insulation is rigid, waterproof material that Witzling placed on the outside in order to leave the roof framing exposed on the inside. The metal roof has a layer of chicken wire, with moss harvested from the property stuffed into it to create a weathered-looking green roof.

The facilities are designed to function off-grid with features like solar power operations and micro-flush toilets.

Unlike the ultra-utilitarian concrete block buildings commonly found on Australian campsites, the StandUp cabin is both functional and thoughtfully designed with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the landscape and highly durable Western Red Cedar cladding.

The transportable cabin was constructed offsite in Victoria, Australia, then shipped to Tasmania where it was craned onto the site and assembled over two days.

The modular building was designed with ease of future relocation and reuse in mind.

The structure minimized its impact on the land, especially in comparison with traditional construction methods, by leveraging the Mega Anchor footing system for the building’s foundation.

“It was a major decision to put the kitchen in the center where everything would revolve around it,” says Lazor. “We did this simply by following what patterns we observed—it was just where people gravitated.” The bar stools are by Blu Dot, and the chairs by Charles and Ray Eames.

The two-bedroom ADU features built-ins in every room