Study on the Elements for the Psychological Comfort of the Tiny House’s Living Room in Japan by Layers and Window Area

Abstract

In the context of environmental issues, financial instability, high mortgage and other issues, more and more people have to choose the tiny house. Tiny house movement is a return to houses of less than 1000 square feet (93 m2). Frequently the distinction is made between small (between 400 square feet (37 m2) and 1,000 square feet (93 m2)), and tiny houses (less than 400 square feet (37 m2)), with some as small as 80 square feet (7.4 m2). According to the general sense of residential, the comfort for a tiny house is difficult to ensure. Due to limitations conditions be the narrow land, constriction and occlusion sense is very strong, so “psychological comfort”, which is about people’s feeling, from “physiological comfort”, which is about the architectural area, should be priority. This paper analyzes the tiny house’s window area of the living rooms, by studying on 36 living rooms in tiny houses. All of these subjects are published in 4 books about “tiny house” around a journal named Jutakutokushu from 2006 to 2015. Through this study, several elements for a comfortable tiny house’s living room are grasped.