The Cube Project tiny house is an effort to create comfortable housing for one person while having the least impact on the environment.
It’s a modest size at only 10 feet on all sides, or 3x3x3 meters.
Experience this tiny home in the video at the bottom of this post.
Here are just a few of the cube’s highlights and features:
- Couch
- Large LED Television
- Slide-able table with chairs
- Double bed
- Full size shower
- Composting toilet
- Kitchen with fridge
- Stove top
- Sink and drainer
- Microwave
- Washing machine
- Air conditioner
How did they fit all of that into less than 100 square feet?
Photo Credit: Nick Edwards
The answer is a great design with multi-functional features.
In order to remain as energy efficient as possible LED lighting is used throughout, even for the television.
There are enough windows to enjoy plenty of natural light.
The Cube is Made to Generate More Energy Than it Uses
Photo Credit: Nick Edwards
Using solar panels ,the little home is able to generate more energy than it uses.
There is plenty of room for the panels on the roof and there’s additional space on one of the exterior side walls of the dwelling.
This home was designed by Dr. Mike Page who is an engineer at the University of Hertfordshire.
It was recently featured in St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival earlier this year.
Photo Credit: Allan MacDonald
Photo Credit: Allan MacDonald
Video Tour of the Cube Project
Highlights
- The Cube Project is a tiny house designed for minimal environmental impact and maximum comfort for one person.
- The structure measures 10 feet on each side, yet includes amenities like a double bed, full-size shower, and kitchen.
- Multi-functional design elements allow for efficient use of less than 100 square feet of space.
- Energy efficiency is enhanced with LED lighting and solar panels, enabling the Cube to generate surplus energy.
- Dr. Mike Page, an engineer from the University of Hertfordshire, designed this innovative home.
- The Cube was showcased at the Edinburgh Science Festival, highlighting its sustainable features.
- The project emphasizes the potential of small, self-sufficient living spaces to contribute to environmental sustainability.
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I absolutly love the design. Unfortunatly I wouldn’t be allowed to live in it due to our building codes.
I love it. From my research so far we Brits are quite a long way behind you when it comes to tiny house design so it’s nice to see we might just be catching up!
Kyle, I know, building codes make me mad!
I liked the design Claire. You’re right, I haven’t seen too much of small housing from your region, but then again haven’t looked for it specifically either. Let us know if you find anything else during your research.
WHERE CAN I GET THE PLANS FOR THE CUBE HOUSE FROM UK???? THANK YOU GREAT HOUSE
Hi Mel, not sure that plans are currently available. Your best bet for that is to try contacting the designer who is Dr. Mike Page, an engineer at the University of Hertfordshire.
where can i get plans????
I love the space saving staircase but I find cube houses are not pleasing to the eye because they don’t follow the golden ratio.
Glad you liked the staircase in there, Patricia. Thanks!
Patricia, what’s the golden ratio (in regards to houses)?
Marcy, the golden ratio can be seen in the golden rectangle of 1 x 1.618. It is has been found to be the most desirable shape – most pleasing to the eye.
Very nice, compact, etc. but I would really like more light from outside…perhaps a couple more windows or a built in sky light somewhere.
Thanks!
This tiny home i think meets the goals that I like in most tiny home designs. People do tend to like different things but to me tiny homes get off track when they try to become downsized suburban homes. Those units end up squashed full of things that have no place in a tiny home life style. But compact and simple structures can serve us and serve us well. Harvesting more energy than the home consumes is one great mark of true success. Having very low maintenance costs is another very worthwhile goal. And having a very low initial cost is another. Keep in mind that if that tiny home is on wheels there is a very good chance of finding a business that will supply a bit of electric and water just because you would be on the property at night in the wee hours.
I would SO have this for a guest house on our property! You can tell it’s British: they have an electric tea kettle properly featured. LOL Two things I’d do differently: 1) Ditch the massive sliding table! For a house this size, NO ONE is going to have dinner parties! If I needed a space for my laptop, I’d use a laptop pad (hard top, cushioned bottom) which is what I use every single day, now. If I needed a surface to eat from, I’d go “Old School” and use fold up TV trays. You can buy vintage ones, online, or go to a big box store and they sell nice versions, straightaway. 2) The second thing I’d do, if it didn’t compromise the structure, is add some more windows! I’m naturally claustrophic, so I have to restrict myself to buildings where I can see “outside” while I’m “inside”.
Overall rating for this structure and design? 10 stars out of 10 stars! Brilliant job, Dr. Mike Page!
What is under the bathroom? What is under the kitchen? Is it really practical, accessible space? How do you manage to carry meals from kitchen to living\dining room with this stair? Impossible living for a couple and to complex for single. Space organization unachieved. Nice looking anyway.
Love it! But as someone else mentioned, I would have the kitchen on the lowest level and the living room on the second where the bedroom is. If nothing else, one could figure out a way so that the bed area could be seating as well, besides I like watching TV in bed.. and would rather have the kitchen and bathroom on a separate level.
Great design, now to get Canada and it’s ridiculous building codes in line and costs down.And as we now know, Vancouver BC is the 2nd most expensive place in the world to live, when wages are taken into account!!
are the cubes used for storage? If not that is a lot f wasted space. Could be open sides for book shelves or with doors for clothing etc.
I think the design is really amazing! A single person could live comfortably there. I hope the designer does more projects like this — maybe a cube for family living.
If you go to the main site http://www.cubeproject.org.uk/ they have the finished house addressing some of your feedback.
Amazing! I agree though, kitchen and table need to be on the same level.
I vote with Cahow on the table – it is huge! Otherwise, pure genius!
Very cute… 🙂 oh, if it were me and I could afford it-would increase the size… Must draw the line somewhere! Saw a TH locally; was 207 sq. ft. without the lofts-wonderful for one person, but long-term for two would go little larger….
Wow. So much for the solar energy nay-sayers. If 8 solar panels can take care of this house in BRITAIN, 3 would be plenty in Florida [where I am.]
And, by implication, covering the roof of virtually any 2 story home with panels would likely handle all it’s electricity in foggy, cloudy Britain. So any home South of Britain could, almost certainly, be electrically self-sufficient.
I have 22 panels. Since I moved to my small house, I won’t have room for all of them on the roof but I’m designing a work-around to take care of that. Once that’s done, I’ll be generating far more electricity than I use. And how cool is that? The downside, at the moment, is that I have to wait till the old, big-house sells before I can afford to get the covered deck built to take them. 🙁
This is such a great set up . it could be enlarged or joined with another cube
Love it! And building codes would not allow it here, either. In fact, the house I designed out of concrete block 25×25 was not “up” to code, either, because the bedrooms were so small (7×7), even though the beds were built-in! And it had a huge loft which I wanted, to have room for guests (with a second bathroom up there!), with an actual staircase up to it! But alas, I have had to resort to putting a shed on my property, 14×24, which will be inspected and found acceptable as a shed — and then I will CHEAT and finish it out to live in it! I am really disgusted with the “rules” — we are not cookie cutter people, and don’t need cookie cutter homes! Sorry, know I’m ranting, but I am really fed up with it! I TRIED to follow the rules and get a building permit — that was my mistake! If I had just built it, I would be very happily living in my concrete block home by now!
Nancy M., I’m with you on this! Here in “Flaw-rida” as the Yam Dankees all seem to pronounce it, the local governments are all so intrusive. Generally lobbyists working for developers and/or realtors, can be counted on to make sure any one desiring a “too” small of a house gets treated like a loon. As more often than not, do-gooders can be counted on to come out of the woodwork tell let you know that they know what’s best for you and your life.
Building codes, while wrapped in the “greater good” flag, are all about money and control. This can oft be translated into “unless you pay us off, you are way too stupid to know what’s best in your life”.
I see the promised video isn’t there–that’s what happens when I find this page 12-13 years after it was posted!
At any rate, here’s the tour of the production model cube home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzjFEU_gjg.
I really like the idea of the cube home; I have a space in which it would fit perfectly (then my wife would tell me to go live in it…lol), and since I lived in some small mobile homes (8×40 and 10×46) right after college, I could get used to this rather quickly.
I updated the page to add the video you located! Thank you for that! I really like this cube home too. Always nice to have your own space! Please keep us updated on this quest! Wishing you the best!