Lowtech Graph lists low-tech options for every need of a home. Here you can compare them, find tutorials to build them, and link them together into a circular system. Why low-tech?

Shared / communal space (bias larger, efficient)

The rooms everyone uses: cooking, eating, sitting together. These earn their size, because one large shared room is cheaper to build and heat than several small ones. The options differ in what they combine, and in what is given up by combining it.

Solutions

• Open-plan shared living/kitchen/dining: Kitchen, dining and living areas combined in one large open room. Space that would go to walls and corridors becomes shared living space, and the room feels big
• Shared solar terrace: A shared rooftop or terrace in a block of flats set aside for solar equipment: a cooker, an oven, a dryer. Households with no sunny outdoor space get somewhere