Nash Tiny House

withheld, Starkville, MS United States

Building Area (sf): 648 sf

Completion: 2018

Architect of Record:

archimania

archimania

• Owner/Client:
• General Contractor: Jon Nash / Bobby Atkinson
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The residence is a simple and practical place for a couple to stay while visiting their daughter in college.

Located on an unused family property outside of Starkville, MS, the house serves as both a weekend home and construction project for a veterinarian who loves to work with his hands. Aside from the wood framing, metal siding, and HVAC, the client drove tools from his home in Orlando, FL and performed most of the work himself.

The house is sited in the exact location as a fishing trailer that belonged to the client’s father which takes advantage of a natural clearing in the pines and offers western views of the pond. Outside of typical living spaces, the clients requested a sleeping loft and prominent porch with views towards the pond.

The design situates one continuous roof and wall plane, with a single ridge at the sleeping loft, around the volume of interior spaces. The full-length porch sits in the space created between these two elements. The plane is clad in galvanized standing-seam metal panels as a regular vertical meter against the sculptural pines and the remaining exterior walls in charcoal corrugated metal panels as a third scale of vertical lines. Metal panels, pressure treated wood, and concrete masonry units were selected as exterior materials for durability and low maintenance required between sometimes infrequent visits.