Fast & cheap revamp of long-time abandoned small apartment by Kirsten Dirksen on January 2, 2022 David Tapias (Aixopluc founder) and Ricard Pau installed their first experimental home inside a former photographer’s studio that had been …
Wasp 3D-prints eco-homes from local raw earth for $1K by Kirsten Dirksen on December 26, 2021 After years of creating machines to 3D-print rubber, recycled plastics, clay, and geopolymers, the Italian start-up WASP created a 3D-Printer …
Is Paris’ best bedroom in a closet? 6-in-1 yoga apartment by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2021 Laure Badufle works multiple jobs from home so, needing her tiny apartment to serve multiple functions, she built the smallest …
Old delivery truck outside, fast-transformer homestudio inside by Kirsten Dirksen on December 12, 2021 Vaughn Dabney bought an old food delivery van for $9,500 and spent $8,000 in supplies to convert it into a …
Young priest turns forsaken farm into paradise homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2021 Five years ago, Catholic priest Johannes Schwarz left his parish to “withdraw for a few years” in the Italian Alps …
Jupe flat-pack prefab is built for comfort & fast deployment by Kirsten Dirksen on November 28, 2021 He lived in a dumpster, then designed a slick plug-and-play prefab that got stuck in permitting purgatory, but now Jeff …
Solar Alpine home warms up via 3-story greenhouse facade by Kirsten Dirksen on November 22, 2021 Emanuele Almagioni wanted to build a home in a cold and windy, but very sunny, town high in the Italian …
LA tests Dutch/Japanese pocket communities. Skeptics like it by Kirsten Dirksen on November 15, 2021 When Barbara Bestor was tasked with turning 5 mostly-abandoned lots into 18 homes in LA’s Echo Park, she knew the …
Cork-clad home uses Trombe Wall & circular vents as free A/C by Kirsten Dirksen on November 9, 2021 When Nancy and her husband found a lot at the edge of Catalonia’s Garraf forest, they wanted a home that …
He was a bike nomad. Now revamps derelict Alpine farmstead by Kirsten Dirksen on November 1, 2021 After spending years cycling around the world, Martijn Doolaard was ready for a more permanent home and he wanted something …
