A group of four architectural technology students and their teacher will work all summer to finish the design of a tiny home prototype adapted to northern Ontario weather. Program coordinator Denis Ouimette says the most important challenge with the build is affordability. "We should build a house that is more economical than what exists just by the fact of being smaller," he said.

Collège Boréal's tiny home prototype for northern Ontario is a three-year project. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) provided the college with a grant of $120,000 per year to pursue the project. The architectural technology department is responsible for the conceptual design of the tiny home, and hopes to complete it over the summer.