No challenge is too big or small for Maniototo Area School pupil Jayson Dumapis.

Jayson (18) has just added the finishing touches to his tiny build, a Level 3 Design Technology project, which he completed through the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation Te Pūkenga (BCITO) at the school.

The finished product resembles a hobbit house, but at 3m long, 2.41m wide and 1.85m high, it is bigger than he had imagined it would be.

“When I was designing it I thought it was small at first, but when I built it, it was pretty big.”

The build is attracting a lot of attention at the school.

There have been suggestions it could be used as a sleepout, if a mattress could be squeezed through the door, or a child’s playhouse.

Jayson’s teacher Clement Lind was impressed by his efforts and determination to complete the project, which took him the entire year to finish.

The build gets the seal of approval from some of the school's youngest pupils.

“At Level 3 they have to basically run the show themselves,” Clement said.

“They can ask questions and that sort of stuff, but he had to talk to suppliers and he chose to create the design himself.”

Clement said Jayson was an ingenuitive thinker, who liked to think outside the box “and put curved roofs on them”.

Jayson spent the first term of the school year designing the build. He spent the second and third terms collecting supplies for it and building it and in term four he put the roof on, thanks to Extreme Roofing in Cromwell, which supplied asphalt tiles.

Ellie Norman (5, left) and Briar Gillespie (6) try the tiny build for size.

They donated the whole lot, which saved Jayson about one third of his budget.

All other materials cost about $1200.

The tiles were the perfect solution to the curved structure thanks to their flexibility.

Jayson said the tiles were his favourite aspect of the build, because they also gave it the character he had hoped for.

He said feedback had been pleasing with people telling him how good it looks and that he had done a good job.

The tiny build is now for sale and can be viewed on the Maniototo Area School Facebook page.

Money raised from the sale will go towards Jayson’s studies at Ara next year, where he plans to study welding.

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