Agile villages for fire victims as template to fix CA housing? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2019 After a fire destroyed over 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa, California, locals got together to help their neighbors: one resident …
Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock in remote kayakers’ lake by Kirsten Dirksen on October 13, 2019 To reach the Iloft floating cabin, you drive five hours north from Montreal to Quebec’s third-largest lake and then kayak …
Biodegradable home built by hand with cork LEGOs, no glue by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2019 Using 1,268 cork blocks, Matthew Barnett Howland built a home almost entirely by hand that uses no glues or mortars …
Tiny diesel tank becomes time-capsule-style personal shelter by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2019 Martín Marro wanted to “rescue the memory” of his childhood home: a converted 1940s gas station in Luque, Argentina. So …
An easy-to-install prefab cabin as alternative to rental flats? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 23, 2019 In response to his city’s housing crisis, Simon Becker created a prototype cabin that can be placed on any underutilized …
Skinny home in Toronto as prototype for parking-space homes? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 15, 2019 When Cyril Borovsky bought a 16-foot-wide strip of land in Toronto sandwiched between two bungalows, he knew the only way …
Old barn becomes young architect’s budget, elegant home-studio by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2019 Alfredo Vanotti wanted to recover the old barn his grandfather had built 100 years ago in his village’s now-abandoned town …
Joy of rebuilding a settler cabin log-by-log on MN homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2019 John spent 15 years building his home and all the furniture, mostly with lumber from the woods of his Long …
T-shaped dark megalith hosts back-to-basics young family home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2019 To create a light-filled home on a small plot where an adjacent building blocked the southern sun, Tilemachos Andrianopoulos elevated …
Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 17, 2019 Paula and Bill Lishman spent many winters in a poorly-insulated A frame cabin before realizing they needed to go underground …
