
Tiny Home
One Week, 2026
Team:
Ben Politowicz
Failenn Aselta
The Challenge +
Project Overview
This project looks to reclaim that lost momentum by re-imagining Paradise as a small community. It proposes a return to growth through farming, tapping into the contemporary revival of homesteading and self-sufficiency. The homes are modest in scale, designed as small dwellings set within large, workable plots of land. While forward-looking in its social and agricultural ambitions, the project remains rooted in the town’s railroad history. Form, materiality, and function quietly echo the infrastructure that once defined Paradise.



Diagram of United States railroads dwindling in the past 100 years













