Indoor/outdoor budget home in Japan: affordable & permeable by Kirsten Dirksen on January 16, 2017 When a family of four asked architect Takeshi Hosaka to create a home embedded in nature on a small Tokyo …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
Young couple transforms old Loire cave in unique home/rental by Kirsten Dirksen on January 2, 2017 Alexis Lamoureux was looking for affordable housing for himself and his girlfriend Lotte van Riel when he rediscovered his great …
Owner-built Atlanta Glass Treehouse floats among hardwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on December 25, 2016 When the financial crisis hit in 2008, architects Mary Clare DeReuil & Carlos Tardio were without work, but determined to …
Tracks of an old Frontier shepherd life: Great Basin Basques by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2016 “What is a Basque?,” asked Orson Welles in his 1955 television travelogue. “All we know for sure is what a …
Porto’s cramped hayloft becomes tiny, daylit modern studio by Kirsten Dirksen on December 11, 2016 When Portuguese architect Florêncio da Costa was asked to turn an old hayloft into a guesthouse, he created a clean, …
NorCal community blends nature with communal & private space by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2016 In 1965, a group of young architects- inspired by the local Pomo Indians’ belief in “living lightly on the land”- …
Viking era’s wooden Norse church in shape after 800 years by Kirsten Dirksen on November 27, 2016 With the conversion of Norway to Christianity (beginning around 1000 AD), wooden “stave” churches were built across the countryside. Over …
Dome village inspired by Buckminster Fuller as UC Davis dorms by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2016 Inspired by Buckminster Fuller, in 1972 a group of UC Davis students set out to build their own affordable tiny …
Virgil unbound: Italian Alps ruin becomes dream budget home by Kirsten Dirksen on November 13, 2016 When his wife inherited a ruined stable in Italy’s Orobic Alps, architect Alfredo Vanotti reinvisioned the space as a family home, …
