Pythagorean home amidst olive grove offers views & protection by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2019 Asked by an Athens couple to design a home embedded in their olive grove, architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos used geometry to …
Camp Commons is a simple cabin to reflect on nature & tradition by Kirsten Dirksen on March 31, 2019 On an abandoned vineyard in Spanish Catalonia’s Priorat region, a tiny cabin was built in 32 hours with a blockhouse …
Can backyard tiny homes solve CA’s affordable housing need? by Kirsten Dirksen on March 24, 2019 Looking for a local solution to the California housing shortage, Clovis city planners bypassed legalizing tiny houses on wheels for …
Small prefab tests space-era rotating rooms: sleep-cook-bath by Kirsten Dirksen on March 17, 2019 To make a small home more efficient, designer Luigi Colani put a 6-round-meter cylinder in the living room so with …
Retired engineer builds transforming, offgrid, stealth campervan by Kirsten Dirksen on March 10, 2019 With two years and $20,000, retired winery engineer Dave Orton turned a Ford Transit into a completely off-grid van home …
On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 4, 2019 Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens …
Forsaken Joshua Tree hut becomes off-grid folly for stargazing by Kirsten Dirksen on February 24, 2019 When Malek Alqadi and Hillary Flur first drove down the dirt road in Joshua Tree and saw the collapsing homestead …
Restoring medieval tower house near Sparta as life project by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2019 Over 35 years ago, Kostas Zouvelos and his then-fiancé Kassiani Theodorakakou saw a for sale sign on a crumbling early …
Modern home in Mexican plateau revives ancient water harvest by Kirsten Dirksen on February 10, 2019 In the slope of Tepozteco Mountain in an area called Meztitla (Náhuatl for “place near the moon”), Casa Meztitla is in …
Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2019 When Johnny Sanphillippo wanted to upsize his 700-square-foot home in Sonoma County, California, he discovered that a legal backyard cottage …
