The Unselfish Cabins

Fé Ramakers presents her army of ‘Unselfish Cabins’: tiny houses that densify the city in a symbiotic way. Each cabin explores how architecture can serve the city’s ecosystem, while creating a place to live with minimal space consumption. These sustainable dwellings are strongly connected not only with their environment, but also with each other. They close material loops and fill gaps, addressing urban challenges in the field of water, waste, heat, biodiversity and social cohesion. The Public Waste Cabin, for example, provides a public toilet and organic waste container and processes the contents into energy and compost. The Water Capturing Cabin prevents streets from flooding. Sharing their resources with other houses such as the Greenhouse Cabin is the next step towards a circular system.