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Baburhan Mystery He remembers with emotion his first stay in a micro-house installed in the middle of vineyards in western Turkey: “This minimalist life offered us an incomparable tranquility”.
Minimalist, mobile and cheap, micro-houses, or “tiny houses” in English, arouse growing enthusiasm in Turkey, especially in the tourism industry that seeks to offer individual accommodation to tourists eager to avoid hotels in the middle of the new coronavirus pandemic.
Emerged a few decades ago in the United States, the “tiny house” movement gained notoriety after the 2008 financial crisis, but only recently appeared in Turkey.
“I hope we can become owners of a micro-house and travel with her around the world“, Gizem Baburhan to the officer.
In a country where the inhabitants favor spacious and modern dwellings, these little houses, which seem prefabricated on trailers, initially had nothing to seduce.
However, micro-home manufacturers have seen orders rise from last year and are having trouble coping with such demand.
“In 2020, our orders were multiplied by 20 compared to the previous year,” Galip Olmez, owner of YAKO Groups, which was launched on the market in 2017, told AFP.
Pelin Dustegor, an architect who works for the Casa Lokomotif company, explains that most of the clients come from the tourism sector and want to propose a “camping-type” offer.
“In 2019, we received a little less than 250 orders. In 2020, we receive 4,500 per month“, Indicates Dustegor. “There is extraordinary enthusiasm.”
Fear of the hotel
Turkey is known worldwide for its fine sandy beaches and gigantic hotels with all-inclusive packages that can host several thousand tourists.
But the health crisis has forced tourism companies to review their plans and many of them are now betting that tourists will prefer to avoid crowded places in the coming years.
For this reason, micro-houses are imposed as a resource that allows proposing individual and safe accommodation.
Dustegor also emphasizes that the popularity of micro-houses in the tourism sector is explained by their relatively low cost and the possibility of paying off the investment quickly.
These houses, installed on wheels, also have the advantage of being able to be “parked” on land without the need for a building permit, since in Turkey they are considered vehicles.
The micro houses They are also increasingly popular in the 30 to 40 age group who want to invest and rent during the summer, he explains.
Caglar Coskun is part of that group. He bought a micro-house that he rents to tourists after having installed it in a vineyard on the Aegean coast.
“People will no longer want to stay in 500-person hotels, but in small groups in nature. Nobody will want to line up in front of an all-you-can-eat buffet, ”he predicts.
Garden as living room
It is precisely in Coskun’s little house where Baburhan lived with her husband his first experience in a micro-house.
“It was a small house, but fully equipped and located in the heart of a beautiful vineyard. We quickly get used to it and end up having the impression of having always lived there, ”he confesses.
Olmez indicates that his firm YAKO Groups builds surfaces ranging from 15 to 40 square meters, that is, the size of a studio or a hotel room. The price ranges from 15,000 to 30,000 euros (between 18,000 and 36,000 dollars).
The architect Dustegor got used to spending two days a week in her micro-house that she installed in the middle of a garden on the outskirts of Istanbul, by the Sea of Marmara.
“My living room is the garden”She comments amused while a rooster walks around the place. “I look at the insects, I see the plants bloom and the seasons go by. It is an inner journey, a way to purify oneself ”, he concludes.
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