Built treehouse annex, then became their live-work respite by Kirsten Dirksen on June 25, 2021 Dustin Feider’s prefab system assembles sturdy treehouses with minimum impact. After making models for clients such as The Doors’ guitarist, …
Couple fits clever barnhouse + Quonset hut on skinny lot by Kirsten Dirksen on June 18, 2021 On a small and affordable Minneapolis lot, Jean and Joe built a barn-style house to maximize the vertical on their …
Made FarmBot home-kit. Now helps NASA on farming by Kirsten Dirksen on June 12, 2021 In 2014, Rory Aronson launched FarmBot, a farming robot built on open-source principles. It wasn’t long before they were noticed …
Bought dark fixer-upper. Turned it into dream home (before/after) by Kirsten Dirksen on June 6, 2021 Three years ago, we embarked on a family project. We found a derelict (and affordable) country home located in a …
Full home unfolds in 1-hour, kitchen & bathroom included by Kirsten Dirksen on May 28, 2021 The Boxabl Casita is a $49,000 home that begins as an easily-transportable 8-foot wide box and unfolds into 375-square-feet of …
In search of lost books: an odyssey across Paris by Kirsten Dirksen on May 22, 2021 We think of virtual as something that is detached from reality, but how can we take advantage of this virtual …
Our definition of “home”, place, & belonging (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 16, 2021 Wanting to examine the meaning of home in a reference point for Western Civilization, our family of 5 boarded a …
Voxel Cabin grows food, reuses water, makes energy from waste by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2021 With the goal of building a cabin without relying on materials from the outside world, those at Valldaura Labs accessed …
Done with city life, he’s reviving an ancient housebarn by Kirsten Dirksen on May 1, 2021 Traditional Basque housebarns – “baserri” (“caserío”, in Spanish) – are farmsteads that could sustain the multiple generations of family that …
U-Build hands-on: a flat-pack modular home you can assemble by Kirsten Dirksen on April 24, 2021 U-Build is a modular construction system even completely inexperienced builders can assemble with simple hand tools. The flat-pack kit is …
