While Elon continues to focus on living and learning communities, one student and professor have teamed up to take this focus to the next level.

Mobii is what students are calling a "tiny house" being built on the Loy farm. Tiny houses are normally quite small homes that are both economically and environmentally friendly.

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Robert Charest, a professor of architecture and design at Elon, is in charge of the creation of Mobii.

"I think the past two or three years we have seen it on television, we see it all around us. It's this tiny house movement, which is people just completely tired with mortgages, and large living expenses and big yards to mow," Charest said. "It's partially environmental and partially has a lot to do with how you want to spend the time you are not at work earning money to pay for your house."

This project has been in the works for two and a half years now but construction just started last week. The house will be 50 square feet, roughly eight by six and will comfortably sleep two. The best part about it all is that all in all it will only cost three thousand dollars to build. Cobalt Tools is sponsoring the entire project and is paying for all of the building expenses. 

Christian Smoke is a Elon senior and plans on moving in to the tiny house once it is completed around Thanksgiving. Smoke is looking forward to his new living arrangement despite the tight quarters.

"I've been excited about this since we came up with the idea and to see it in fruition, nothing could make me happier," he said.

While he is excited, Smoke also admits that there are some things he is a little worried about.

"I'm nervous about the space and feeling claustrophobic on occasions, but we've added windows and a patio to kind of negate that," he said.

Mobii has wheels and can be pulled behind a pick up truck. Smoke is planning to take full advantage of this in this upcoming winter.

"Over winter term we're planning a road trip to hit as many national and state parks as we can to kind of show it off but also just to hang out at some cool state parks," he said.

Both Smoke and Charest are already thinking ahead and have plans to look into building Mobii 2.0 sometime in the future.