Mouvement des micromaisonsvignette|Micromaison de Portland (Oregon). Le mouvement des micromaisons (aussi orthographié micro-maisons), parfois désigné par son nom anglais tiny house movement, est un mouvement social et architectural prônant la simplicité volontaire par l'habitation de petites maisons. Au Japon, ce mouvement architectural a explosé dans les années 1990, et le terme qualifie ces micromaisons. Aux États-Unis, la taille moyenne d'une maison unifamiliale est passée de en 1978 à en 2007 et ce, malgré la réduction de la taille des familles américaines sur cette période.
Alternative housingAlternative housing is a category of domicile structures that are built or designed outside of the mainstream norm e.g., town homes, single family homes and apartment complexes. In modern days, alternative housing commonly takes the form of tiny houses, dome homes, pyramid-shaped houses, earth sheltered homes, residential tree houses, abandoned factories and hospitals and even up-cycled vans or buses. The motivation to create alternative homes can arise from destitution or lack of resources to buy or rent a typical home and therefore include improvised shacks in shantytowns, buses, cars and tent-like structures.
Construction modulaireOn appelle construction modulaire une construction déterminée par un module (voir cette notion): une organisation de la construction de bâtiment ou de la construction navale (plus généralement la construction mécanique), consistant à assembler des éléments préfabriqués selon un gabarit de coordination standard (le module).
Affordable housingAffordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to mortgages and a number of forms that exist along a continuum – from emergency homeless shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental (also known as social or subsidized housing), to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing, and ending with affordable home ownership.
